Most sites tell you what they do. We tell you what we don't — so you know exactly when to stop trusting our output and call a professional.
We are a research and decision tool, not a law firm. Use our verdict to narrow your choices. Hire a licensed immigration professional for any decision that involves money, paperwork, or moving your family.
Nothing on this site, in your report, or in our emails is legal, immigration, tax, or financial advice. Our verdicts are research outputs based on public data, not professional opinions about your specific case.
What this means: if our report says "MOVE — Portugal D7", that is our best read of typical eligibility — not a guarantee your application will succeed. Hire a Portuguese immigration lawyer before applying.
We do not submit visas, gather your documents, translate certificates, schedule appointments, or represent you to any government. Once you have a verdict, the next step is yours — usually with a regulated professional.
Why: filing requires regulated representation in most jurisdictions (US: accredited representatives or licensed attorneys; UK: OISC-regulated advisers; EU: varies by country). We are not regulated and would harm your case by pretending otherwise.
Our database covers 2,500+ visa pathways across 190+ countries. Only a small portion are independently fact-checked by a second researcher. The rest are categorised as draft — our internal flag for "this matches official sources at time of capture, but has not been re-verified through a separate person."
What this means: the engine applies a confidence multiplier to scores — lower-confidence pathways are de-ranked. But the underlying field (income threshold, processing time, restricted nationalities) may be stale or partial. Every pathway includes the official government URL — verify before applying.
We do not have automated crawlers monitoring every immigration page in every country. When a country raises a salary threshold, pauses a programme, or changes a documentation requirement, there is a lag between the official announcement and our database update — sometimes days, sometimes weeks.
What this means: our pathway data is a snapshot, not a live feed. Always cross-check against the official government source linked in your report before paying for credential evaluation, translations, or non-refundable application fees.
We use public data sources (World Bank, OECD, cost-of-living tools, Expatistan, ILO) and edit them for known gaps. Your real cost of living will depend on your lifestyle, family size, city within the country, currency exchange at the moment of move, and dozens of personal factors we cannot model.
What this means: the cost comparison in your report is a directional signal, not a household budget. Build your real budget with a local financial adviser once you have a shortlist.
The engine combines mathematical logic with editorial judgement (e.g. the "desirability multiplier" that penalises easy visas to undesirable countries). It is internally consistent and we believe it is sound — but we have not tracked the 1-year, 3-year, 5-year outcomes of users who followed our verdicts. We cannot tell you statistically how often "MOVE" verdicts lead to successful long-term emigration.
What this means: treat our verdict as a strong starting point for research, not a probabilistic prediction. We will track outcomes as the user base grows.
North Korea, Vatican City, and a handful of micro-states or sanctioned destinations are deliberately excluded — no viable immigration pathway exists. Some niche visas (artist-in-residence, monastic retreat, very recent pilot programmes) may not yet be in our database.
What this means: if your destination of interest is not in the report, it does not mean "do not go" — it means "we have not researched this pathway in depth yet". Email us at hello@wheretoemigrate.io and we will prioritise.
Your quiz answers, email, and reports are stored only for the time needed to deliver your purchase and the 7-day nurture sequence. We never sell your data. We never share with immigration agencies, law firms, or relocation companies without explicit per-message consent.
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