Find Your Visa in 2 Minutes

Visa eligibility is not one-size-fits-all. The same country can have three different visa pathways depending on whether your income is active or passive, whether you are bringing dependents, and what your long-term plan is -- permanent residency, citizenship, or just a few years abroad.

The quiz asks about four things: where your income comes from, how much of it there is, your nationality, and your timeline. Those four inputs rule out most visas immediately. A freelancer earning $3,500/month does not qualify for the same pathways as someone living off dividends, even if they are moving to the same city.

Income thresholds are the most common filter. Most digital nomad visas require you to earn a multiple of the local minimum wage -- Portugal's D8 sits at four times the Portuguese minimum, which works out to roughly 3,480/month. Spain's Non-Lucrative Visa uses a different baseline entirely. Greece ties its threshold to a fixed monthly figure. These are set by each country's immigration authority and tend to shift annually, so the quiz pulls current figures rather than the outdated numbers that circulate on expat forums.

Nationality matters more than most people expect. EU citizens do not need a visa to live in EU countries, which means the quiz results look completely different depending on your passport. Non-EU applicants from countries with existing bilateral agreements sometimes get faster processing or lower thresholds. A few visas are simply closed to certain nationalities regardless of income.

The path to permanent residency is the variable that changes the decision most often. Some visas are renewable indefinitely but lead nowhere in terms of residency status. Others start a five-year clock toward a PR application -- which, in countries like Portugal, can eventually lead to citizenship and an EU passport. If that is the goal, the visa you pick on day one matters a lot.