New Zealand8 routes
Immigration routes · By reason
Special cases
263 routes · 110 of 227 countriesAnother reason — Medical treatment, religion, volunteering, sport, talent.
Country by country
Special cases: the 24 countries with the most routes on record
Each card names that country's routes and links to what we hold on each one — the requirements, the official source it was read from, and the date it was checked. Up to 6 routes are named per country; where a country has more, the card says so and links to its full list. The other 86 are listed on their own country pages, each with every route it holds.
Vietnam8 routes
- LV1 work with central Party, National Assembly, President or Government bodies
- LV2 work with socio-political, social or chamber organisations
- NG1 senior invited delegation
- NG2 senior official or invited guest
- NG3 diplomatic or consular mission member and family
- NG4 visitor to diplomatic or international-organisation member
Norway6 routes
Greece6 routes
- D.1 — Diplomatic, consular or international-organisation staff member
- D.2 — Family member of diplomatic, consular or international-organisation staff
- I.1 — Public-interest residence
- I.2-C — Adult unmarried child of diplomatic, consular or international-organisation staff
- I.2-P — Dependent parent of diplomatic, consular or international-organisation staff
- I.3 — Private servant of a diplomatic-mission member
Australia6 routes
South Georgia6 routes
Hungary5 routes
Indonesia5 routes
Thailand5 routes
India5 routes
Bosnia and Herzegovina5 routes
Nauru4 routes
Japan4 routes
Netherlands4 routes
Portugal4 routes
- CPLP residence permit with prior consular visa
- Conversion from temporary research or highly qualified visa — Article 122(1)(q)
- Special residence — completed effective service in Portuguese Armed Forces — Article 122(1)(h)
- Special residence — former diplomatic or consular agent and dependent family — Article 122(1)(l)
United Kingdom4 routes
Costa Rica4 routes
South Korea4 routes
Slovakia4 routes
Kiribati4 routes
Armenia4 routes
Tuvalu4 routes
Ukraine3 routes
Poland3 routes
Reasons that overlap
Where else this reason is served
A country will often grant the same person residence under a different heading. These are the categories that also serve this reason, with their own counts — they are not added into the figures above, so nothing is counted twice.
- Talent and merit310 routes · 106 countries
- Culture, faith and volunteering296 routes · 129 countries
- Medical treatment127 routes · 83 countries
- Sport91 routes · 56 countries
What these numbers mean
Every route on this page is one entry in the same inventory the 227 country pages are generated from — one row per route, per country, held under the technical category the law itself uses. “110 of 227 countries” means at least one route of this kind is on record for that country. It does not mean the route is open to you, and it never means a country has no other way in that we have not yet recorded. A higher route count is not an easier move: it is a count, not a score.
Routes that do not fit the common categories — retired military, specific bilateral agreements, and one-off national schemes. Worth checking precisely because they are easy to miss.
A “proven fact” carries all four things a claim about your life needs: a value, the official page it came from, a quotation that demonstrates that value, and the date it was checked. Anything short of all four is not counted here and is shown as unproven on the page that uses it. The evidence figure above counts eligibility criteria only — the rules that decide whether a route is open to you — read from the live database on 2026-08-07.
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Which of these routes is actually open to you?
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