Every residency door in the countries we track (the official income bars, the documents, the actual application sequence), each fact graded by how well it’s sourced, stamped with when we last verified it, and kept honestly separate from what YouTube and Reddit are saying.
Enter what you actually earn. Every published income route on this page sorts itself into doors that are open to you, doors within reach, and doors that ask for more, using the official bars below, nothing invented.Just visiting? These bars are for long-stay residency routes. Most passports need no income proof for a short trip. Check what your passport needs to enter →
Most trips never touch a residency visa: a tourist admission covers the stay, and no income proof is involved. Pick the two ends of your trip. The income bars further down are for the long-stay routes.
Government permission allowing a foreigner to take paid local employment.
A work permit is the government's yes to you actually holding a paid job with a local employer.
People mix it up with a work visa: the visa is the stamp that lets you enter and stay for work, while the permit is the underlying right to be on someone's payroll.
In many countries they come together, but a visa that lets you live somewhere does not automatically let you take local wages.
You are in Spain on a digital nomad visa working for clients back home, and a local company offers you a part-time role in their office.
That job needs its own permission you do not have, and taking it without one puts both you and the employer on the wrong side of the rules.
A different term every day, out of the glossary. People mix this one up with Work visa. read the full entry → · every term
We do our best to keep up, but visa policy moves faster than any website. Consulates change the rules, thresholds drift, offices reinterpret. If you found something newer than what’s above, or you just went through a process and reality didn’t match the paperwork, send it in. We verify every submission against the official source before updating, and if your fix lands, you get credit below.