StayingAsia
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Where can you stay,
and what does it take?

StayingAsia compares long-stay visas and residence routes in 21 Asian countries. Every route shows the threshold, the renewal rule, and where it ends: permanent residence, endless renewal, or nothing. Living conditions are scored separately.

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21 destinations

Pick the passport you hold and where you are going. You get the category, the days on entry, whether it extends, and the instrument that grants it.

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21 countries

Ranked on how long the law lets you remain. Georgia gives you a year visa free. Japan gives a remote worker six months and no extension.

How

114 routes

114 routes, each with the real threshold, the renewal rule, and whether it ends in permanent residence or renews forever and never converts.

Why

Safety, cost, health, air, language, internet. A second score, kept separate, because the country that lets you stay is often not the one you want to live in.

Start with the route

Every country we score, whatever the instrument.

Easiest to stay

click a column to sort · Life is a separate score
# Country Stay Life Breakdown Settle
01 Armenia Residence card 82 56 15
02 Georgia Visa-free 365 days 75 53 5
03 Philippines SRRV 73 52 20
04 Hong Kong Top Talent Pass 72 65 5
05 Thailand DTV 63 53 0
06 UAE Virtual work visa 62 59 0
07 Singapore ONE Pass 53 71 5
08 Japan Digital nomad 53 78 0
09 Malaysia MM2H SEZ 49 71 0
10 Turkey Short-term residence 48 51 10
11 Sri Lanka Nomad visa 48 55 0
12 Cambodia ER retirement 47 46 0
13 Nepal Residential visa 47 49 0
14 Indonesia KITAS E33G 43 55 10
15 South Korea F-1-D 42 72 0
16 Taiwan Nomad visa 38 76 0
17 Macau Talent programme 30 77 5
18 China Work permit 25 62 5
19 Vietnam Employer TRC 19 59 10
20 India OCI only 5 43 5
21 Maldives Employer or marriage 0 68 0

Stay is how easy the country is to get into and remain in, weighted money 25, speed 20, certainty 20, family 15, settlement 20. Method. Life is quality of life, scored separately on safety, affordability, health, air, language and internet. Method. The two scores are independent. A country can be easy to stay in and hard to live in.

Why staying is harder than arriving

None of the 11 remote-work routes reaches permanent residence on its own, and 2 of them only get there by switching to another status. Of 14 retirement routes, 5 reach it directly and 2 more at an officer's discretion. What Asia sells is long, renewable, temporary stays.

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