Methodology

Where the data comes from

Every figure on this site — the minimum income, the duration, the fee, the tax rule, whether a program is open — is sourced from the country's official immigration authority, consulate, or the law itself. We read aggregators and law-firm write-ups to find candidate numbers and spot new programs, but we do not cite them: the figure has to be confirmed at the government source, and the government source is what we link in each page's Sources block.

Where an official source is ambiguous or a program is mid-rollout, we say so on the page and mark the figure unverified rather than publish a confident number we can't stand behind. A wrong income threshold is a real cost to someone planning a move, so we treat accuracy as more important than volume.

How the eligibility checker works

The checker is a rule engine, not a lookup. For every country it runs the same steps against the income, currency, nationality, and family details you enter:

1. Normalise the threshold. It converts each country's official minimum income into your currency at this month's exchange rates, reducing annual figures to a monthly amount.
2. Add family. If you're bringing a spouse or children, it adds each country's published dependant uplift to the requirement.
3. Apply the rules in order. Programs that aren't open, that exclude your nationality, or that don't accept your employment type are set aside with the reason. Savings-based programs are matched against your savings instead of income.
4. Decide. If your income clears the requirement you qualify. If you're within 15% you're a near-miss, and we show the exact gap. Below that, the country is grouped separately but still linked.

The computation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server or stored anywhere but your own device. This is also why the checker can't be reproduced by an AI answer panel — the result is personal to your numbers, not a fact to look up.

How conversions stay fresh

We store every requirement in the country's own currency and derive the dollar, euro, and pound figures from a single exchange-rate file that we refresh monthly (currently July 2026). Updating that one file re-renders every conversion on the site at once, so a number in the prose can never quietly go stale against the table beside it.

Update cadence

• Monthly: exchange rates, and any country whose figure is exchange-rate-sensitive.
• Quarterly: every country's income, duration, fee, insurance rule, and status, re-checked against its official source, with the last-verified date bumped.
• On a minimum-wage change: countries pegged to a national minimum wage (like Spain and Colombia) are updated when the new wage takes effect.
• Event-driven: new programs are added as they launch; closed programs are marked closed and kept on record rather than deleted.

Who verifies it

Data is reviewed by the NomadQualify Editorial Team against the official immigration source for each country. We are not attorneys or tax advisers and this site is not legal, immigration, or tax advice — it's a reference that shows you the official rules and links you to the official source so you can confirm before you apply. See our editorial standards for how we handle corrections and figures we can't confirm.