Where can US citizens live long-term?

Of the 46 other countries GeoRank tracks, 42 offer US citizens a route to stay a year or longer — from Portugal's D7 (€920/mo passive income) and France's long-stay visitor visa (€1,500/mo) to Thailand's DTV (฿500k in savings) and the US-only Dutch-American Friendship Treaty in the Netherlands.

Does the checker include points-based visas like Japan's HSP?

They are listed on country detail views but excluded from the headline 'max stay' — points-tested, invitation-only, and quota routes are not something an ordinary remote worker or retiree can simply apply for, so they don't count toward what the map paints green.

Can I check two passports at once?

Yes — the GeoRank map's Visas layer supports multiple passports (dual citizens see the best route across all held passports) and colors the whole world by your maximum legal stay.

Tool 11 · Interactive · 47 countries · 129 routes

Where Can You Legally Move?

Name: GeoRank Visa & Residency Routes Dataset
Creator: GeoRank
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Pick your passport. Every visa-checker on the internet answers one country at a time — this one answers all 47 at once: max legal stay, the route that unlocks it, and what it costs. US citizens: 42 of 46 other countries offer a 1-year+ route.

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Visa console — 47 destinations · 129 routes · verified Jul 2026

Your passport

Route type

Minimum stay

Result

Country	Max stay	Best route	Type	Requirement	Tourist entry

Max stay counts only routes an ordinary applicant can pursue — points-tested, invitation-only, and quota visas are excluded. Requirements shown as published by the issuing government; most scale with dependents. Not legal advice.

Worked example

Where can US citizens live? The 2026 answer

Of the 46 other countries in the dataset, 42 offer a US passport holder a route to stay a year or longer, and every one of them allows at least six months by some combination of entry rules. What separates them is the price of admission:

Country	Best route	Requirement	Path to PR	Tourist entry
Portugal	D7 passive-income visa	€920/mo income	Yes · citizenship in 10 yrs	visa-free 90 days
France	Long-stay visitor (VLS-TS)	€1,500/mo income	Yes · citizenship in 5 yrs	visa-free 90 days
Italy	Elective residence visa	€2,667/mo passive income	Yes · citizenship in 10 yrs	visa-free 90 days
Spain	Non-lucrative visa	€28,800/yr in savings	Yes · citizenship in 10 yrs	visa-free 90 days
Netherlands	DAFT (US citizens only)	€4,500 business investment	Yes	visa-free 90 days
Greece	Digital nomad visa	€3,500/mo remote income	Yes · citizenship in 7 yrs	visa-free 90 days
Croatia	Digital nomad permit	€3,622/mo remote income	No (18 months max)	visa-free 90 days
Thailand	Destination Thailand Visa	฿500,000 in savings	No (5-yr multi-entry)	visa-free 60 days
Mexico	Residente Temporal	$4,432/mo or $74,687 savings	Yes · citizenship in 5 yrs	visa-free 180 days
Georgia	Tourist entry alone	—	Property route from $150k	visa-free 360 days

The pattern: Southern Europe sells residency for proof of income (Portugal from €920/mo — the lowest bar in the EU), Southeast Asia sells it for savings (Thailand's DTV wants ฿500k parked in a bank, roughly $14k), and Georgia asks for nothing at all — a US, UK, or EU passport gets 360 visa-free days per entry. The same table looks very different on an Indian passport: most of Schengen becomes visa-required, and the accessible routes narrow to the countries whose nomad visas accept any nationality — which is exactly why the checker asks for your passport first.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Where does the visa data come from?

Every long-stay route was hand-verified against official government or embassy pages (81 of 129 cite the official source directly). Tourist terms come from the open passport-index dataset. Each route stores its source URL and verification date.

Why isn't Japan's HSP visa counted?

Points-tested, invitation-only, and quota routes are listed but excluded from "max stay" — an ordinary remote worker or retiree can't simply apply for them, so they shouldn't paint a country green.

How current is this?

Last full verification July 2026. Income thresholds move with minimum wages (Spain, Portugal, Croatia adjust yearly); GeoRank re-verifies quarterly and marks each route with its check date.

Is this legal advice?

No — it's a research tool for shortlisting. Before making plans, confirm with the official source linked on each route or a licensed immigration adviser.

I have two passports.

Use the map's Visas layer — it supports multiple passports and shows the best achievable route across all of them, per country, on a world map.

Legality is one layer. Now add sunshine and cost.

The map colors the whole world by your max legal stay — then lets you weigh it against calibrated climate, cost of living, tax, and safety.

Open the Visa Map → Compare Climates →

About the data: GeoRank is built by a small team that thinks moving abroad shouldn't be guesswork. The 129 long-stay routes in this checker were researched one government website at a time — each with a source link and a verification date, re-checked quarterly. Tourist-entry terms derive from the open passport-index dataset. See the methodology for detail. None of this is legal advice.

Sources: official government & embassy pages (81/129 routes) · established legal guides where official pages are unusable · passport-index dataset (tourist matrix). Verified 2026-07. Full dataset: visa-data.json.