Maps for Uncharted Immigration

U.S. immigration law is a system that resists explanation. I built these tools to understand it well enough to explain it to your kid or your grandmother. That is the real test of knowing something. None of them exist anywhere else.

The World Map According to U.S. Immigration Law

Where you were born determines more about your immigration options than almost any other single fact. This map makes those disparities visible — per-country backlogs that stretch decades, treaty-based categories available only to certain nationalities, categories that close entirely depending on birthplace, visa bans imposed on entire nationalities.