OfficialCost Index · 2026
Residence and work visa programs ranked by application fee.
Moving abroad starts with the visa, and the headline application fee is one of the clearest, most comparable costs across programs. The Global Visa Cost Index ranks residence and work-visa routes by their application fee, so you can see at a glance which destinations are cheapest to apply to. Fees are normalized to USD and traced to their source; processing time, validity, and income requirements are covered on each visa's own page.
This index publishes as verified data lands — coverage is still building.
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