This list is built to provide convenience for those who aim to immigrate to other countries. All information is extracted from the official immigration sites of the following countries.
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If you find any inaccurate information, please add a pull request.
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You are welcome to contribute, but do please add information only from the official immigration sites of each country, many thanks!
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Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)
- Intro: This visa is for invited workers and New Zealand citizens with skills we need, to live and work permanently anywhere in Australia.
- Length of Stay: Permanently
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 65
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Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)
- Intro: This visa lets nominated skilled workers live and work in Australia as permanent residents.
- Length of Stay: Permanently
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 65
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- Intro: Immigrate as a skilled worker
- Length of Stay: Permanently
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 67
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Quebec-selected skilled workers
- Intro: Immigrate as a skilled worker in the province of Quebec
- Length of Stay: Permanently
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- Intro: You have been offered employment in a certified company. Your employer can apply for Danish residence and work permit on your behalf via the Fast-track scheme.
- Length of Stay: 4 years
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- Intro: You have been offered a job in Denmark with a salary of DKK 426,985.06 or higher.
- Length of Stay: 4 years
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- Intro: You have been offered a job included in the list of professions experiencing a shortage of qualified professionals in Denmark.
- Length of Stay: 4 years
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Residence permit application for an employed person (TTOL)
- Intro: Apply for a residence permit with this application if you are coming to Finland to work for a Finnish employer or other employer operating in Finland and you have signed a contract of employment or accepted a binding job offer. A residence permit for an employed person is connected with labour market testing, which means that the employer must establish if there is available labour force within a reasonable time in Finland or within the EU/EEA for the work in question.
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- Intro: Highly-qualified foreigners are in particular scientists with special technical knowledge, as well as teaching personnel and scientific personnel in prominent positions.
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- Intro: The EU Blue Card enables third-country nationals who are university graduates or who have a comparable qualification to receive a residence title for the purpose of employment suiting their qualification.
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- Intro: It seeks to attract highly skilled or talented persons to settle in Hong Kong in order to enhance Hong Kong's economic competitiveness.
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 80
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Advanced academic research activities
- Intro: Activities of engaging in research, research guidance or education based on a contract entered into with a public or private organization in Japan.
- Length of Stay: 5 years (maximum)
- Minimum Points: 70
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Advanced specialized/technical activities
- Intro: Activities of engaging in work requiring specialized knowledge or skills in the field of natural sciences or humanities based on a contract entered into with a public or private organization in Japan.
- Length of Stay: 5 years (maximum)
- Minimum Points: 70
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Skilled Migrant Category Resident Visa
- Length of Stay: Indefinitely
- Age Range: 55 or under
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 100
- 'Currently, we are only selecting EOIs with 160 points or above'
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- Intro: If you have completed higher education or have completed vocational training, you can apply for a residence permit as a skilled worker. You must normally already have received a job offer, or have your own business.
- Length of Stay: 3 years
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- Intro: The Employment Pass allows foreign professionals, managers and executives to work in Singapore. Candidates need to earn at least $4,500 a month and have acceptable qualifications.
- Length of Stay: 2 year (new pass), 3 years (subsequent)
- Point Calculator
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- Intro: The S Pass allows mid-level skilled staff to work in Singapore. Candidates need to earn at least $2,500 a month and have the relevant qualifications and work experience.
- Length of Stay: 2 year
- Point Calculator
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- Intro: You must have been offered a job before you can obtain a work permit. You cannot enter Sweden until the permit has been granted. You cannot obtain a work permit to go to Sweden and look for a job.
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Specialists in Science and Engineering Golden VisaGolden Visa
- Intro: You can apply for this visa, if you:
- Have a Bachelor or Master degree from a leading university, accredited by the UAE Ministry of Education, in one of the following disciplines:
- Epidemiology and Virology
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Big data
- Computer engineering
- Electronics
- Software engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Genetic engineering
- Biotechnology engineering
- Must be practicing one of the disciplines
- Have a Bachelor or Master degree from a leading university, accredited by the UAE Ministry of Education, in one of the following disciplines:
- Length of Stay: 10 years
- Intro: You can apply for this visa, if you:
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- Intro: You can apply for this visa, if you:
- Have a doctorate degree attested by the UAE Ministry of Education
- To Apply:
- A doctorate degree, attested by the UAE Ministry of Education in one of the high-priority disciplines
- An employment contract attested by the UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation in one of the high-priority disciplines
- Length of Stay: 10 years
- Intro: You can apply for this visa, if you:
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- Intro: You can apply for a Tier 2 (General) visa if:
- you’ve been offered a skilled job in the UK;
- you’re from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland
- Length of Stay: a maximum of 5 years and 14 days
- Point Document
- Minimum Points: 70
- Intro: You can apply for a Tier 2 (General) visa if:
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Employment-Based Immigration: Third Preference EB-3
- Intro: You may be eligible for this immigrant visa preference category if you are a skilled worker, professional, or other worker:
- “Skilled workers” are persons whose job requires a minimum of 2 years training or work experience, not of a temporary or seasonal nature;
- “Professionals” are persons whose job requires at least a U.S. baccalaureate degree or a foreign equivalent and are a member of the professions;
- The “other workers” subcategory is for persons performing unskilled labor requiring less than 2 years training or experience, not of a temporary or seasonal nature.
- Intro: You may be eligible for this immigrant visa preference category if you are a skilled worker, professional, or other worker:
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- Intro: For young adults who want an extended holiday and to work here to fund it.
- Length of Stay: 1 year
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Skilled—Recognised Graduate visa
- Intro: This visa allows recent engineering graduates to live, work or study in Australia for up to 18 months. You must have completed a degree or higher qualification from a specified institution within the past 2 years, and be under 31 years of age.
- Length of Stay: 18 months
- Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates
- Intro: IANG is the overall best visa type for many people who seek for long term residence in Hong Kong.
- Easy to obtain: one can immediately get 1 year IANG visa post study
- Long visa valid period: one can renew visa with 1-2-3 schedule; afterwards all 3 years
- Non work biding: One only needs to have a employer sponsor at the time of application; no requirements of maintaining employment status till the end of visa valid period.
- Dependent friendly: mainland China expacts can support parent's dependent visa in the valid period of IANG. Cautious: once a mainland expat changes to HK permanent residence (passport holder) status, she can no longer support parent's dependent via.
- Intro: IANG is the overall best visa type for many people who seek for long term residence in Hong Kong.
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- Intro: Ireland’s working holiday agreements with other governments allow young people of both countries to fund an extended holiday through temporary work.
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- Intro: If you have acceptable qualifications(s) that you completed in New Zealand, you can apply for a visa to work here. Depending on your qualification and where you studied, you can work for any employer for between 1 and 3 years, and do almost any work.
- Length of Stay: 1, 2 or 3 years
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- Intro: Every year hundreds of young people apply for New Zealand working holiday visas, and spend a year or two working in New Zealand.
- Length of Stay: 12 months, or 23 months if you are from the UK or Canada
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Looking for a job after study, promotion or research
- Intro: You have graduated or obtained a PhD or performed scientific research and wish to find a job or start your own company . You live abroad or are still in the Netherlands. You need a residence permit 'orientation year highly educated persons'.
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Work experience as trainee or apprentice
- Intro: You wish to gain work experience in the Netherlands as a trainee (for study purposes) or apprentice (for work purposes). You need a residence permit for this.
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- Intro: You must normally have received a job offer in Norway before you can apply for a residence permit for work purposes. If you are a skilled worker, you may in some exceptional cases get a residence permit to stay in Norway while you look for work.
- Length of Stay: 1 year
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Business Innovation and Investment (provisional) visa (subclass 188)
- Intro: This visa allows you to own and manage a business in Australia, conduct business and investment activity in Australia or undertake an entrepreneurial activity in Australia
- Length of Stay: Up to 4 years and 3 months
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 65
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Business Innovation and Investment (permanent) visa (subclass 888)
- Intro: For entrepreneurs, investors and business owners to continue their activity in Australia.
- Length of Stay: Permanently
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- Intro: This visa is for people who undertake business and investment activities in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.
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- Intro: Immigrate by starting a business and creating jobs
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Residence permit application for an entrepreneur
- Intro: Apply with this application for a residence permit if you intend to come to Finland to become an entrepreneur. Before a permit can be issued, entrepreneurs usually need to enter their business in the Trade Register maintained by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
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Residence permit application for a start-up entrepreneur
- Intro: Apply with this application for a residence permit if you intend to come to Finland as a start-up entrepreneur. You must obtain a positive Eligibility Statement from Business Finland before you can apply for this permit. A start-up entrepreneur cannot get a residence permit without a positive statement from Business Finland.
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Advanced business management activities
- Intro: Activities of engaging in the operation or management of a public or private organization in Japan.
- Length of Stay: 5 years (maximum)
- Minimum Points: 70
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- Intro: This visa is for people who have been self-employed in New Zealand at least 6 months, or have operated a business for two years on another visa that allows self-employment.
- Length of Stay: Indefinitely
- Point Calculator
- Minimum Points: 120
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- Intro: The EntrePass allows eligible foreigners to start and operate a new business in Singapore. Find out what businesses are eligible, how to apply and the requirements for renewing the pass.
- Length of Stay: 1 year (new pass), 2 years (subsequent)
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- Intro: The Entrepreneur Golden Visa is for entrepreneurs looking to set up a business in Abu Dhabi.
- Must have a successful project in the UAE of a value of at least AED 500,000
- Length of Stay: 5 years
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- Intro: You can apply for a Start-up visa if:
- you want to set up a business in the UK
- you’re from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland
- you meet the other eligibility requirements
- Length of Stay: 2 years
- Intro: You can apply for a Start-up visa if:
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Intro: You can apply for a Tier 1 (Investor) visa if:
- you want to invest £2,000,000 or more in the UK
- you’re from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland
- you meet the other eligibility requirements
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Length of Stay: 5 years and 4 months.
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