PR Path Length by Visa
Years to permanent residency, across every residency visa we track. Rows are sorted from fastest to slowest — programmes whose PR clock hasn't been published as a fixed number sink to the bottom. Programmes with no PR path at all (student visas, most working-holidays, some digital-nomad permits) are called out below the main table.
Last derived from the underlying visa dataset at build time. Source of truth per programme lives on that programme's detail page and in the official-source link there. General information — not legal advice.
Fastest programme per country
For applicants who care about country over route: the shortest PR route in each country's catalogue.
All PR-eligible visas
122 residency programmes with a documented PR pathway, sorted by shortest published timeline.
Visas with no documented PR pathway
46 programmes are temporary-only or lead directly to citizenship without an intermediate PR stage (CBI programmes, some CBD registrations). Route these via the visa detail page rather than treating a missing PR column as a bug.
- Thailand Long-Term Resident (LTR) Visa
- Thailand Destination Thailand Visa (DTV)
- Malaysia DE Rantau Digital Nomad Pass
- Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H)
- UAE Virtual Working Programme (Remote Work Visa)
- Dubai Freelance Visa (TECOM / Free Zone Permit)
- Georgia Remotely from Georgia Programme
- Estonia Digital Nomad Visa
- Germany Job Seeker Visa
- E-2 Treaty Investor Visa
- O-1 Extraordinary Ability Visa
- Brazil Digital Nomad Visa (VITEM XIV)
- Colombia Digital Nomad Visa (Nómada Digital)
- Japan Digital Nomad Visa
- South Korea Digital Nomad Visa (Workcation Visa)
- India Business Visa
- India Employment Visa
- Thailand Non-Immigrant O-A (Retirement) Visa
- Thailand Privilege (Elite) Visa
- Indonesia Golden Visa
- Australia Working Holiday Visa (Subclass 417)
- Canada IEC Working Holiday
- Malaysia Premium Visa Programme (PVIP)
- Croatia Digital Nomad Visa
- Mauritius Premium Travel Visa
- US F-1 Student Visa
- US J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa
- Sweden Job Seeker Visa
- Thailand O-X Long-Stay Visa
- India e-Tourist Visa (eTV)
- India Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Card
- South Korea D-10 Job Seeker Visa
- UAE Green Visa
- Japan J-Find Visa (Job-Seeking for Top University Graduates)
- UAE Blue Residency Visa
- Philippines Balikbayan Program (Visa-Free Entry for Former Filipinos)
- Nauru Citizenship by Investment (Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Programme)
- Comoros Economic Citizenship Programme
- Puerto Rico Act 60 (Individual Resident Investor & Export Services)
- Georgia 1% Individual Entrepreneur Tax Regime
- UK Graduate Route Visa
- UK High Potential Individual (HPI) Visa
- US TN Visa (Trade NAFTA / USMCA Professional)
- Canada Study Permit
- UK Student Visa
- Germany Student Visa
Machine-readable
This matrix is derived at build time from the underlying visa dataset published at /api/v1/visas.json. Use the JSON endpoint for programmatic access.