It opened the door, 90 points. But in 2025 it began revoking permanent residence over unpaid taxes and pension contributions, and that applies to people who already hold it.
The place interval 6-15 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.
The thin mark on each bar is the average across 97 countries
The strongest category here is Access to entry: 90 out of 100, against a 97-state average of 65.7. The weakest is Agency processing: 67 against 48.7. Above the world average: 7 out of 7.
Since 2023, people who qualify by income or by degree no longer need to collect points. Family reunification takes the one to three months the law promises, the immigration service accepts a bachelor's degree itself with no separate recognition procedure, and ten years of experience can replace it. There are no integration exams.
DownsideA spouse on a dependant visa cannot work straight away; a separate permit is needed, and even with it the ceiling is 28 hours a week. Only spouses of highly qualified specialists have a full right to work.
Stability of the rules scores just 25 out of 100. An immigration service instruction of 29 September 2025 takes effect in 2027 and introduces revocation of permanent residence over unpaid taxes and mandatory pension and health contributions. It contains no protection for people who already hold it, and that is around 918 thousand people.
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.
