One of two countries with 100 out of 100 for status security: an appeal halts removal by an explicit provision of the law.
between leaguesThe place interval 4-10 shows where the country lands when the data is nudged and the index is recalculated. One place of difference in the table means nothing; a difference of a league means something.
Between leaguesThe league holds in fewer than half of the recalculations. Read this country as sitting between two leagues, not as a member of the upper one.
The thin mark on each bar is the average across 97 countries
The strongest category here is Status security: 100 out of 100, against a 97-state average of 57.9. The weakest is Agency processing: 53 against 48.7. Above the world average: 6 out of 7.
The other such country is Chile. You get at least 60 days, extendable, to put your status in order, freedom of movement is preserved meanwhile, and the law explicitly forbids detention on migration grounds. A spouse works immediately and on equal terms with Brazilians, without a separate permit, and that extends to the family of someone on a remote work visa. Education is a right of everyone under the Constitution, regardless of migration status.
DownsideAgency processing scores 53, settling in 62. Delays in issuing the registration number block both the bank account and payroll; diploma recognition goes through state universities and takes months; income on a remote work visa is taxed at around 24%.
All 97 states are calculated for one applicant: 35 years old, income of $2,500 and $3,856 a month before tax, passport not counted, the most accessible route that is actually in use.
Your passport, your income and your family do not change the table. They change which of its lines apply to you. A different income makes entry read differently, a family makes the family category read differently, and your passport makes everything read differently.
97 states, 26 indicators, seven categories, 2,522 scores. Every score has a source and a source class: primary means the texts of laws and government portals; reliable secondary means reports by international organisations, tax reviews by audit firms and specialist legal publications; weak means community posts and single secondary sources. The classes add up to a confidence level for the country, and a country with low confidence gets neither a score nor a place.
Every indicator is scored against a fixed ruler, not against its neighbours. Adding new countries therefore does not move the old ones, and a change in a score means a change in policy and nothing else.
A high place does not mean a good country. It means one thing: the state machine treats newcomers predictably and by the rules. Living there may be expensive, dull or hot; that is not our question.
We make mistakes and we will go on making them: policy changes faster than any database. Our answer is not a pose of infallibility but a visible trail of corrections. Every correction is published: what it was, what it became, the source and the reason for the error. The corrections log opens with the second issue, together with the first block of changes.
