Greece19 routes
Immigration routes · By reason
Study
534 routes · 198 of 227 countriesStudy — Higher education, training, youth exchange.
Country by country
Study: the 24 countries with the most routes on record
Each card names that country's routes and links to what we hold on each one — the requirements, the official source it was read from, and the date it was checked. Up to 6 routes are named per country; where a country has more, the card says so and links to its full list. The other 174 are listed on their own country pages, each with every route it holds.
Germany17 routes
Romania15 routes
- Long-Stay Visa D/SD — Romanian-origin or state-supported secondary pupil
- Long-Stay Visa D/SD — higher-education student
- Temporary residence — Romanian-origin or state-supported secondary pupil
- Long-Stay Visa D/AS — unpaid professional training
- Long-Stay Visa D/CS — scientific researcher
- Long-Stay Visa D/SD — higher-education trainee
Japan14 routes
Ireland13 routes
Italy13 routes
- National Study Visa — AFAM higher arts, music or dance programme
- National Study Visa — Italian-language or cultural course
- National Study Visa — bachelor or single-cycle degree
- National Study Visa — doctoral programme
- National Study Visa — foundation or preparatory course
- National Study Visa — master's degree
France12 routes
Poland11 routes
Canada11 routes
- Francophone Minority Communities Student Pilot
- Hong Kong Permanent Residence Pathway - Stream A - In-Canada Graduates
- Manitoba Nominee Program - International Education - Graduate Internship Pathway
- New Brunswick Nominee Program - Private Career College Graduate Pilot
- Newfoundland and Labrador Nominee Program - International Graduate
- Nova Scotia Nominee Program - Nova Scotia Graduate Stream
Portugal10 routes
- Higher-education student mobility from another EU member state — Article 91-A
- Long-term researcher mobility from another EU member state — Article 91-C
- Temporary-Stay Visa — study, exchange, training, unpaid traineeship or volunteering over three months
- Post-study or post-research residence — completed second/third cycle or research — Article 122(1)(p)
- Post-study residence — completed secondary or first-cycle higher education — Article 122(1)(o)
- Residence Visa — study, student exchange, traineeship or volunteering (D4)
Indonesia10 routes
Denmark10 routes
Norway9 routes
Sweden9 routes
New Zealand9 routes
Spain8 routes
Malaysia8 routes
Taiwan8 routes
Hungary7 routes
Turkey7 routes
- Short-term residence — Turkish higher-education graduate
- Short-term residence — Turkish language course
- Short-term residence — exchange or international education programme
- Short-term residence — on-the-job training programme
- Short-term residence — public-agency education, research, internship or course
- Student residence — higher education
Russia6 routes
- Permanent residence — Russian higher-education degree with honours
- Temporary residence permit for education (RVPO)
- Foreign student — temporary stay for full-time study
- Ordinary student visa
- Permanent residence — after completing education on RVPO
- Temporary residence permit — former-USSR-state national with qualifying Russian education
Czechia6 routes
Belgium5 routes
Panama5 routes
Reasons that overlap
Where else this reason is served
A country will often grant the same person residence under a different heading. These are the categories that also serve this reason, with their own counts — they are not added into the figures above, so nothing is counted twice.
- Culture, faith and volunteering296 routes · 129 countries
- Youth mobility225 routes · 54 countries
What these numbers mean
Every route on this page is one entry in the same inventory the 227 country pages are generated from — one row per route, per country, held under the technical category the law itself uses. “198 of 227 countries” means at least one route of this kind is on record for that country. It does not mean the route is open to you, and it never means a country has no other way in that we have not yet recorded. A higher route count is not an easier move: it is a count, not a score.
Routes for enrolled students. Whether they lead anywhere afterwards — work rights during study, a post-study stay — is the part that differs most, and the part worth reading closely.
A “proven fact” carries all four things a claim about your life needs: a value, the official page it came from, a quotation that demonstrates that value, and the date it was checked. Anything short of all four is not counted here and is shown as unproven on the page that uses it. The evidence figure above counts eligibility criteria only — the rules that decide whether a route is open to you — read from the live database on 2026-08-07.
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