Which Countries Does SettleBuddy Cover? The Full 2026 List

"Does it cover my country?" is the first real question about any relocation tool. Here's SettleBuddy's honest coverage map in 2026 — what's deep, what's global, and what's expanding — so you know exactly what you get for your specific move.

Layer 1: language coverage — 50 languages, worldwide

Language Lab launched with 50 languages because relocation isn't a five-language phenomenon. Alongside German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese sit the languages most apps treat as afterthoughts — Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, and dozens more, through to lower-resource languages like Georgian, Armenian and Uzbek.

Coverage here means more than a word list: lessons are built around relocation scenarios (registration counters, landlords, doctors, workplaces), with speaking and pronunciation practice — because for a mover, the language is the settling-in tool. Whatever country you're heading to, if its language is one of the 50, that part of your move is covered today, free to start.

Layer 2: visa-intelligence depth — the 16-country corpus

Visa information is where SettleBuddy refuses to do what most sites do — recycle other blogs. Deep coverage means we hold the actual official material for a country:

• the immigration statute in its current, in-force version (native language — translations lag),
• the secondary regulations where the real numbers live — fees, salary thresholds, quotas,
• official per-visa factsheets — requirements, procedure, deciding authority,
• caseworker guidance — how officials are instructed to decide,
• occupation shortage lists and points systems, where they exist,
• case law and treaties that shape how rules apply in practice.

Every item is tagged with its official source and date. That's the standard behind every country guide in this journal — and the corpus Visa AI is being built on.

The 16 countries, by region

Why these 16 first? Together they receive a large share of the world's skilled migration, span the major system types — EU free movement plus national permits, points-based systems (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Austria's Red-White-Red Card), employer-led sponsorship (USA, UK) — and publish rich official documentation. Master these and the method generalises: the corpus approach is designed to extend country by country toward the rest of the world.

What "depth" looks like, country by country

The corpus isn't uniform marketing gloss — countries differ in how they publish rules, and the collection reflects each system's real shape. Germany is currently the deepest: the full current residence act with all its route sections, the three secondary ordinances where employment rules, fees and procedures live, 18 official factsheets covering routes from the EU Blue Card and skilled-worker permits to the points-based Opportunity Card, plus administrative guidance and case law. Canada, Australia and New Zealand centre on their points and sponsorship machinery — the regulations holding the actual criteria, occupation lists, and the operational instructions caseworkers apply. The UK pairs its statute with the Immigration Rules, which is where that system's practical detail lives. The USA couples the statute with the federal regulations that govern how petitions actually move. The EU members — Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland — each pair national permit law with the EU-level layer (free movement, Blue Card, long-term residence) that changes what's possible for many applicants. Where a source is stale or a statute sits behind a technical wall, we track it as a known gap rather than papering over it — coverage claims you can audit, like everything else.

What coverage means for your move, concretely

• Moving to one of the 16: you get sourced journal guides on routes, requirements and processes (with the official documents cited), plus your target language in Language Lab. This is the deepest experience today.
• Moving elsewhere: Language Lab likely still covers your language today, the journal's process guides (first-week bureaucracy, housing, language planning) apply broadly, and visa depth for more countries is on the way.
• Undecided where to go: this is where the multi-country corpus shines — comparing routes across 16 systems (points thresholds, freelancer routes, job-seeker visas) from official sources, in one place. Career AI (in development) will automate exactly that comparison for your profession.

Expansion: how new countries get added

Adding a country isn't writing a blog post — it's collecting that country's current statutes, regulations, factsheets, guidance and lists, source-tagging everything, and only then writing. That's slower than the content-farm approach and the reason the coverage claim means something. New countries are announced in the journal as their corpora land; if yours isn't covered yet, the early-access list is where expansion news arrives first.

Choosing between covered countries: what the corpus makes possible

Single-country content is everywhere; the rarer thing the 16-country corpus enables is honest comparison. Because the same categories exist for every covered country — statute, regulations, factsheets, thresholds, occupation lists — questions that usually take weeks of scattered research become side-by-side reads: which countries run points systems you can score yourself on versus employer-sponsorship you can't start alone; where a freelancer route genuinely exists in law versus where "digital nomad visa" is a blog fantasy; how salary thresholds for the same EU Blue Card differ per member state; which shortage lists name your actual occupation this year. That comparative layer is where Career AI is headed — automated matching of your profile across all covered systems — but the raw material already powers the journal's cross-country guides today. If you're country-shopping rather than country-committed, that's the most useful thing depth-coverage buys you: real options, from real rules, comparable on one screen.

FAQ

Product facts in this article verified against the linked official SettleBuddy pages as of 22 July 2026. SettleBuddy provides software and information, not regulated immigration or legal advice.

Sources (official)

• SettleBuddy — official site and early access
• SettleBuddy — Privacy Policy (data handling)
• SettleBuddy — Terms of Service
• Language Lab — the companion language app