Who Immimaps Is For: Exploring Your Options vs. Holding a Proposal
Immimaps is built for two different readers, and neither one has to become the other first. If you're still exploring where to go, you start by comparing pathways. If you already have a proposal or contract in hand, you start with the free document check.
Both are front doors, not steps in a queue.
It's worth being explicit about this, because most tools force you through a single funnel — sign up, answer twenty questions, then finally see anything useful. Immimaps doesn't work that way, because the two readers below don't have the same problem, and forcing them through the same steps would waste both of their time.
If you're exploring — you don't know which country fits
You know you want to move, broadly, for work, retirement, family, or a change of pace. You haven't picked a country. You might have three names in your head from friends or forum threads, but nothing you'd bet your savings on. You haven't spoken to an agency yet, and you don't have a document to check, because none exists.
This is the majority of people who first hear about immigration planning tools. What you need isn't a document check — it's a way to compare pathways against what actually matters to you: your budget, your goals, your family situation, how much risk you're willing to carry. Immimaps builds that comparison from a curated database of official program rules, not from opinion pieces or affiliate blog posts ranking countries by vibes.
Getting started here means creating a free account and answering a short set of questions about what you're optimizing for. From there, the comparison updates as you refine your priorities.
If you're mid-stream — you already have a proposal or contract
You've done your own research already. You've talked to an agency, maybe several. You have a proposal describing a specific program, a specific cost, and a specific timeline — or you've gone further and have a contract someone is asking you to sign. You don't need to explore anymore. You need a second opinion on the document in front of you, and you need it before you commit money.
This is exactly what the free document check is for. It reads what you paste or upload, checks it against the real program rules for that pathway, and flags anything that doesn't match, is missing, or looks risky. No account, no payment, no sitting through a discovery flow you don't need. You can do this anonymously and get a report in minutes.
News and our thoughts — not legal advice or consultation.
Side by side
| Exploring | Holding a document | |
|---|---|---|
| What you have | A general idea, no country chosen yet | A proposal or contract from an agency |
| What you need | A way to compare pathways against your budget, goals, and risk tolerance | A second opinion before you commit money |
| Where you start | Create a free account and answer a short set of questions | Paste or upload the document — no account needed |
| What you get | A comparison that updates as you refine your priorities | A report in minutes |
Why we keep these separate on purpose
We could have built one long funnel where everyone answers the same questions in the same order. We didn't, because it would punish both groups. Someone holding a contract with a deadline doesn't want to sit through a goal-setting exercise before they get an answer. Someone who hasn't chosen a country yet doesn't have a document to paste in the first place — forcing them toward the document check would just produce a dead end.
So the two paths run in parallel. If you started with the document check and later decide to compare countries properly, you can create an account and pick that up separately — nothing is lost, and nothing about your report changes because you did.
Not sure which one describes you?
Some people sit in between — they've had one informal conversation with an agency but nothing in writing, or they're comparing three countries and one agency happens to have sent something. If you have any document at all — a proposal, a contract, even a rough quote — start with the free check. It costs nothing to find out what it says. If you have nothing in writing yet, start with exploring your options instead.
Where to go next
Ready with a document? Go straight to the document check — it's free and needs no account.
Not sure yet, or starting from zero? Start here — a short flow figures out where to send you.
Still deciding which situation describes you? Our FAQ has quick answers on cost, accounts, and what each check actually does.