Malaysia8 routes
Immigration routes · By reason
Living from your own income
161 routes · 100 of 227 countriesLive on my own means — Retirement, passive income, temporary residence.
Country by country
Living from your own income: 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 76 are listed on their own country pages, each with every route it holds.
Thailand5 routes
Curaçao5 routes
Portugal4 routes
France3 routes
Ireland3 routes
Indonesia3 routes
San Marino3 routes
South Africa3 routes
Albania3 routes
Bahrain3 routes
El Salvador3 routes
Dominican Republic3 routes
Belize2 routes
Japan2 routes
Netherlands2 routes
Nigeria2 routes
Panama2 routes
Switzerland2 routes
Costa Rica2 routes
Colombia2 routes
Malta2 routes
Aruba2 routes
Argentina2 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.
- Long-term residence542 routes · 187 countries
- Remote work and digital nomads61 routes · 53 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. “100 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 for people funded by pensions, savings, rental income or remote earnings from elsewhere. They usually set a monthly income floor and ask you to prove it.
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?
Answer 14 questions and get a verdict per country — eligible, almost, or not eligible — against this same inventory.