Albania
Albania provides various long-term residency options to retirees, digital nomads, self-employed people, and investors.
Andorra
Andorra’s immigration system includes Active Residency and Passive Residency programs. The most famous Active Residency program is the self-employed visa “compte propi”, while the most popular Passive Residency program is a residency by investment program that requires a minimum investment of over 600,000 euros.
Cyprus
Currently, the main ways to obtain a legitimate long-term residence visa in Cyprus are: golden visas with a minimum investment of 300,000 euros, passive income visas, digital nomad visas, start-up visas and work visas.
Estonia
Estonia offers two primary investment visas: the Major Investment Visa requiring a minimum investment of 1 million euros, and the General Investment Visa with a threshold of 16,000 euros. Besides these, the start-up visa, digital nomad visa, and work visa serve as popular avenues for foreigners seeking an extended stay in Estonia.
France
The main way for foreigners to move to France is to apply for a long-term D-type residence visa, which is divided into four types: work visa; education visa; family reunion visa; and other visas. These include various immigration routes such as residency by investment, self-employment immigration, skilled worker immigration, retirement visas, and more.
Georgia
The main methods for foreigners to move to Georgia are through investment visas(minimum investment requirement 12,500USD), entrepreneurship visas, work visas, and digital nomad visas(minimum monthly income requirement 2000USD). Notably, most of these immigrants come from Russia.
Germany
For Non-EU citizens, there are only two viable legal strategies to migrate to Germany: one can secure a work visa through an employment contract and reside there, or they can obtain a self-employment visa by making a local investment and/or operating a business there, which then allows them to settle in Germany.
Gibraltar
As the UK’s smallest overseas territory, Gibraltar offers a high-net-worth (HNW) visa application route for foreign individuals with a net worth of over 2 million pounds, who commit to paying at least 37,000 pounds in local taxes annually.
Greece
The Golden Visa program of Greece is the largest and most well-known immigration program in the world. In addition to this, Greece offers a range of other long-term residence visas such as financially independent people visa, digital nomad visa, startup visa, and work visa to Non-EU citizens.
Guernsey
Guernsey offers foreign investors and entrepreneurs a pathway to UK permanent residency and passports. Guernsey’s investor visa and entrepreneur visa are very similar in format to the UK’s now-terminated investot and startup visas, but the required investment amount is only half of what was previously required for similar UK visas.
Ireland
The methods of moving to Ireland mainly include studying, work or start-up visas, family reunification, and independent means visas.
Italy
Foreigners can get long-time residency in Italy through various means such as: golden visa, self-employment visa, elective residency visa, digital nomad visa, start-up visa etc.
Jersey
Overseas individuals earning more than 1,250,000 pounds annually and investing in Jersey Island properties worth more than 1.75 million pounds qualify for the High Value Residency Program in Jersey. After a six-year residency, they can pursue the British Overseas Territory Citizen (BOTC) passport.
Latvia
Since 2010, Latvia has maintained a steady residency by investment program, drawing a considerable number of immigrants from Russia. A standout feature of this program is its affordability. Theoretically, with an investment of 50,000 euros and an additional 10,000 euros in government fees, one can secure a Latvian residence visa, making it one of the most cost-effective routes to permanent EU residency.
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein maintain a tight grip on immigration, especially for non-EU residents. Annually, the government provides only several hundred residency visas.
Luxembourg
For non-EU residents, income visas have become a primary relocation method. Furthermore, the introduction of the Luxembourg residency by investment program in March 2017 has paved another pathway for non-EU nationals to move there.
Malta
Malta extends two avenues for economic immigration to foreign investors: the Permanent Residency Scheme and Indirect Citizenship by Investment programme. Foreigners can also reside in Malta for an extended period through retirement visa or digital nomad visa options.
Monaco
For foreigners looking to relocate to Monaco, there are primarily two methods: acquiring a work permit, or making a local bank deposit exceeding 500,000 Euros while also making investments in the property market.
Netherlands
Foreigners can obtain Dutch citizenship indirectly by becoming a citizen of any of the Netherlands’ constituent nations. Alternatively, they can migrate to the Netherlands through a variety of methods such as investing, working, starting a business, or through self-employment.
Norway
Beyond those who come for family reunification, refuge, or employment, foreigners have options to relocate to Norway using self-employment visas（minimum income requirement 35, 719 euros per year） or the Svalbard digital nomad visa(minimum income requirement 35, 000 euros per year), facilitating long-term work and residence.
Portugal
In addition to the well-known golden visa, foreigners can also move to Portugal through passive income visas, start-up visas, digital nomad visas, and other methods.
Spain
Foreigners can reside in Spain for an extended period through various means, such as the Golden Visa with a minimum investment requirement of 500,000 euros, the Non-Lucrative Visa with a minimum annual income requirement of 28,800 euros, the Work Visa, the Entrepreneur Visa, and the Digital Nomad Visa with a minimum monthly income requirement of 2,160 euros.
Turkey
In addition to passport program, foreigners can also legally reside in Turkey by applying for various types of Turkish residence permit ID cards.
United Kingdom
Currently, most foreigners can only immigrate to the UK through work visas or start-up visas. Another method of moving to the UK is to obtain a British Overseas Territories Citizen (BOTC) passport from one of the UK’s fourteen overseas territories, thereby residing in the UK long-term.