Emigration research should start with clear information.

Why I built whereTOemigrate

For most of my career I have worked where money and people cross borders. My background is in Portuguese real estate, and through my roles at the Chamber of Commerce I spent years alongside foreign clients and foreign investors — people deciding where to place their capital, their businesses, and often their families.

The same problem kept surfacing. However sophisticated my clients were, they were rarely well informed about their own options. The rules that would decide where they could live and invest were scattered, written in dense legal language, and buried across dozens of government portals — and no one was giving them a straight answer.

So I set out to answer it myself. I went to the official sources — the immigration ministries, the visa portals, the statutes — and started reading. What struck me was how genuinely hard this is: every country structured differently, thresholds hidden in footnotes, requirements that change quietly. If it was this difficult for someone who does cross-border work for a living, it was close to impossible for the person simply trying to plan their own move.

That is why whereTOemigrate exists. I built it to organise migration programmes, recorded information and sources in one place. I maintain the platform and its research process. The current product provides information rather than eligibility verdicts or rankings. Where an answer is missing, it stays explicit. Source links and recorded dates do not certify a fresh review of every fact.

Outside whereTOemigrate, I hold governance roles in three bilateral trade bodies that map the same corridors this platform covers: Executive Board Member of the Portuguese–Saudi Business Council, Secretary of the General Assembly of the Portugal–Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PHKCCI), and a board member of the Arab–Portuguese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCIAP).

— Antonio Mira, Founder