Methodology · editorial reconciliation 3 October 2026

How programme information is built.

Your answers add context to the pathway you want to explore. We then present the criteria, evidence and open questions recorded for relevant programmes. The result is informational: it does not decide whether you qualify and it does not rank routes.

95 specific criteria 19 pathway families 9 public verticals Information, not a verdict
§ 01 · Method

Profile context. Programme evidence.

The questionnaire records what you tell us about your plans. Its answers help select a public vertical and explain which programme details may matter to you. They are not legal findings and do not turn an unknown programme rule into a known one.

Each programme keeps its own legal route identity. The report joins that identity to route-specific criteria, reviewed evidence and explicit gaps. The same programme is not duplicated under a different label to make the catalogue look larger.

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Input

Your stated context

Optional answers describe your aim, background and practical preferences. They guide the explanation you receive; they are not used to issue an eligibility decision or a league table.

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Context
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Structure

Pathway-specific questions

The contract defines five research criteria for each of 19 pathway families. Together they create 95 specific criteria instead of applying one generic checklist to every route.

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Questions
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Evidence

Programme records

A claim is attached to the exact route it describes, with its source, citation, jurisdiction and effective date where those have been reviewed. Recorded material and documented review must remain distinguishable.

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Evidence
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Report

Proportionate comparison

The current report includes up to 20 detailed programme pages and up to 30 additional programme summaries. The actual count depends on the programme information available for your profile. The order helps you read the information; it does not declare one programme more likely to be approved than the next.

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Comparison
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Missing

Unknown stays unknown

An unanswered public question shows Answer not available. Missing report research remains explicitly unknown. Neither is guessed from another route or country.

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Open question
§ 02 · Scope

Nine public verticals.

The public questionnaire presents Work & Job Search, Study & Training, Entrepreneurship & Self-Employment, Remote Work & Digital Nomad, Passive Income, Savings & Retirement, Residence or Citizenship by Investment, Working Holiday & Youth Mobility, Citizenship or Residence by Ancestry, and Sports & Athlete Mobility. These are navigation choices for an informational product.

The underlying catalogue remains broader. It preserves 19 pathway families so route identities and research obligations do not disappear merely because a family is outside the questionnaire.

Visible structure

Nine public verticals

Each vertical opens its own set of questions and programme explanations. A selected vertical describes what the person wants to investigate; it does not promise a route is available.

Conditional module

Talent sits inside Work

Talent & Exceptional Achievement is offered as a conditional module within the Work vertical. It is not presented as a tenth top-level vertical.

Outside the quiz

Nine families are catalogue-only

Free Movement, Family, Residence or Status Changes, Short Stay or Visit, Humanitarian Protection, Transit, Medical Treatment, Cultural / Religious / Volunteer, and Other Special routes are excluded from the questionnaire and its associated report. They may appear in the public catalogue.

Catalogue continuity

Non-quiz routes keep their identity

Other catalogue-only families can remain available as information or for manual review under their own policy. Being stored in the catalogue does not place them in the quiz.

§ 03 · Evidence

Evidence and authority stay separate.

A page can support a useful programme detail without being the body that makes the rule. We record what a source supports and, separately, whether its publisher has authority for that type of claim.

A link alone is never enough to call a statement official. Source identity, the cited passage, jurisdiction, effective date and publisher authority must agree before the stronger label is used.

RecordWhat the methodology requires
Programme identityExact legal route Route IDCountryPathway familyPublic URL
Claim evidenceWhat supports the detail Source URLCitationJurisdictionEffective date
Publisher authorityWho can make the rule Publisher classPromulgating authorityPermitted useReview state
Profile answerUser-provided context Self-reportedUsed for explanationNever legal evidence
Missing programme detailHonest empty state —Answer not available

What a source label means

A source can be credible yet still lack authority to establish an immigration rule. Source identity and publisher authority must be checked for the claim concerned. A recorded link or published answer must not be described as an independent review certificate.

§ 04 · Readiness

Publication and review are different states.

Readiness is assessed per programme claim. Country presence, route presence and a working URL do not by themselves prove that a detail is current or suitable for publication.

Reviewed

Publish the supported detailEvidence and authority agree

The claim, citation, jurisdiction, date and permitted use have been reviewed for the exact programme.

Show the value with its evidence status.
Pending

Show the gapResearch or review remains open

Catalogue pages publish the recorded answers held for each route. An unanswered question shows Answer not available. Publication alone does not establish independent review.

Show “—” and the missing-information label.
Changed

Withhold stale materialEffective state no longer matches

A reported superseded, expired or conflicting source requires review and a recorded correction. We do not claim automated detection or withholding of every stale fact.

Re-research before the value can return.
§ 05 · Report

Depth where it helps. Context throughout.

The report explains programme information in two levels so detail remains readable. Inclusion means the programme is relevant to the selected topic and available evidence; it is not a finding that the reader qualifies.

Programme record
5 specific criteria

One structure for each pathway family.

The historical report contract defines five research criteria per family. These are separate from the five public page questions and answers; page publication does not certify report readiness.

Read: the claim, date, source and open questions.

Detailed view
10 programmes maximum

The first group receives full explanation.

Up to ten programmes can include the complete criterion discussion, qualifications, caveats, evidence and missing states.

Use it to: prepare questions for professional advice.

Wider view
50 programmes maximum

The remaining group stays comparable.

The wider table can extend the report to fifty programmes without repeating the full narrative for each one.

Use it to: identify routes that merit deeper research.

No eligibility or ranking claim: the product does not state that one programme is best, calculate a probability of approval or turn missing information into a pass.

§ 06 · Limits

What this method can and cannot do.

The product organises research so you can inspect programme details and gaps. It does not replace a legal assessment of your circumstances.

What the product handles

  • Pathway-specific structure across 19 programme families
  • Profile context for nine public verticals
  • Programme identity kept stable by route ID
  • Evidence and authority recorded as separate fields
  • Missing information shown without inference

What the product does not do

  • It does not decide whether you qualify for a programme
  • It does not rank routes or predict approval
  • It does not treat a working link as proof of publisher authority
  • It does not fill an unknown field from a different route or country
  • It does not file applications or replace individual professional advice

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