18 routes
Canada
The Global Skills Strategy (GSS) offers faster, roughly two-week processing for certain highly skilled temporary workers' work permit applications, covering both LMIA-required (Global Talent Stream) and LMIA-exempt jobs, as well as accompanying family members, provided the application is submitted complete and onlin…
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France
France's French Tech Visa for Founders, part of the "Talent – Innovative Economic Project" (Passeport Talent – Porteur de projet) residence-permit family, requires the founder to demonstrate an innovative economic project to be developed in France with official recognition of its innovative nature by the Regional Di…
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France
France's 'Passeport Talent — Salarié qualifié' is a multi-year residence card issued under the talent-passport regime that authorises the holder to live in France and work in a salaried capacity, without the employer having to separately apply for a work permit; the employer is also exempt from the tax normally due …
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Greece
Greek investment residence route, best known for real-estate and other qualifying investment categories.
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Indonesia
E28B is the company-founding strand of Indonesia's Golden Visa: a limited-stay investor visa granting five or ten years of residence to an individual investor who undertakes to set up a company in Indonesia.
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Oman
Oman long-term Investor Residency / Golden Visa offering 5 or 10 year renewable residence to qualifying investors, administered via Invest Oman.
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Residence-by-investment route; real-estate and capital-transfer pathways were closed in October 2023, but fund-investment and other options remain.
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Spain
Residence-by-investment route announced to end on 3 April 2025; residual queries reference historical rules.
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Taiwan
The Taiwan Employment Gold Card, launched in 2018 under the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professional Talent (in force since October 2017), is a combined resident visa, open work permit, Alien Resident Certificate and multiple re-entry permit valid 1 to 3 years.
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Türkiye
The Turquoise Card (Turkuaz Kart) is Türkiye's status for exceptional talent and capital.
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United Arab Emirates
The Abu Dhabi Golden Visa for Skilled Professionals, administered by the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), grants a 10-year long-term residency to employed skilled professionals in the emirate — no nationality is excluded on the source page, so eligibility depends entirely on employment, role cla…
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United Arab Emirates
The Golden visa is the UAE's long-term residence for people the country wants to keep: a renewable permit valid for five or ten years depending on the category, granted to foreign talents to live, work or study in the Emirates.
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United Kingdom
The Global Talent visa is the UK Home Office's unsponsored route for leaders and potential leaders in three fields — academia or research, arts and culture, and digital technology — open to applicants aged 18 or over with no job offer or employer sponsor required.
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United Kingdom
The UK's Global Talent visa for digital technology is a two-stage route: first, endorsement of exceptional talent or promise in digital technology by the sector's approved endorsing body (Tech Nation's successor arrangements), then the visa application itself.
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United States
EB-1A is the Extraordinary Ability track of the first-preference employment-based immigrant category, administered by USCIS under INA section 203(b)(1) and 8 CFR 204.5.
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United States
The O-1 nonimmigrant classification is a temporary work visa for individuals of extraordinary ability, defined at 8 CFR 214.2(o) and detailed in USCIS Policy Manual Volume 2, Part M.
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Uzbekistan
For you if you want longer-term residence in Uzbekistan through a significant investment or contribution: the Golden Visa is a newer route offering a five-year residence permit under a simplified procedure.
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Vietnam
Nomination-only 5-year multiple-entry visa for highly skilled professionals and global talent, launched in 2025.
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