Countries with published visa-outcome data, ranked by depth

Where official agencies — BAMF, the UK Home Office, IRCC, USCIS, CBS, DETE, MOM, DGEF, ISA, Home Affairs Australia, Immigration NZ, GDRFA Dubai, plus the allaboutberlin.com crowdsourced wait-times dataset — actually publish what happens after applications go in. The depth column is how many discrete primary-sourced outcome rows we currently expose for each country-visa pair.

18-item ranking, drawn directly from the primary-source data in each country brief.
01 DE Germany · EU Blue Card verified 2026-04-24 9 rows 02 GB United Kingdom · Skilled Worker visa verified 2026-04-23 6 rows 03 CA Canada · Federal Skilled Worker (Express Entry) verified 2026-04-23 5 rows 04 IE Ireland · Critical Skills Employment Permit (CSEP) verified 2026-04-23 5 rows 05 PT Portugal · D7 Passive Income / Retirement Visa verified 2026-04-23 5 rows 06 US United States · H-1B Specialty Occupation verified 2026-04-23 5 rows 07 AU Australia · Skills in Demand — Core Skills (Subclass 482) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 08 FR France · Talent – Qualified Employee verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 09 IT Italy · EU Blue Card (Carta Blu UE) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 10 JP Japan · Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) — Type 1 / Type 2 verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 11 NL Netherlands · Highly Skilled Migrant (Kennismigrant) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 12 NZ New Zealand · Skilled Migrant Category Resident Visa verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 13 SG Singapore · Employment Pass (EP) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 14 ES Spain · Work Visa (Cuenta Ajena) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 15 AE United Arab Emirates · Golden Visa (10-year residency) verified 2026-04-23 4 rows 16 HK Hong Kong · Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) — Category A verified 2026-04-23 3 rows 17 HK Hong Kong · General Employment Policy (GEP) verified 2026-04-23 2 rows 18 HK Hong Kong · Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS) verified 2026-04-23 1 row

Methodology on the methodology page. Each row links to the country brief with full source attribution.

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