Transita

Changelog

What's new

v0.7.02026-05-06
Added
  • Multi-step pathways. When your direct visa match is weak but a 2-4 step journey reaches PR (working holiday into employer-sponsored skilled work into permanent residency, for example), Transita now surfaces the chain. Each step shows your eligibility at that point, your projected age when you would transition, and the realistic time elapsed from start.
  • Free-text job/field input on the quiz. Type your role in your own words (Senior platform engineer at fintech, Construction site manager, Wildlife photographer) instead of fitting one of 13 dropdown buckets.
  • Optional final quiz step: tell us anything else about your situation. Partner with EU citizenship, kids in school, current visa expiry, ruled-out countries. The matcher uses these signals to nudge results.
  • Labor market estimates per destination. AU and US for now: sector demand, median salary by sector, source-cited from Bureau of Labor Statistics and Jobs and Skills Australia. Visible in the details expander on each result card.
  • Industry-switch viability badge on every visa. Switch-friendly, moderate, or locked-to-sponsor, derived from the visa category and sponsor flag.
  • Browseable job board at /jobs. Filter open roles at licensed visa-sponsoring employers by country, role, and remote/hybrid/onsite. Available in the Resources menu.
  • Live job suggestions on result cards. For sponsor-required visas in your target countries, the top 3 currently open matched roles surface inline.
  • Pathway showcase on the homepage explaining the multi-step view.
Changed
  • Realistic scoring on points-based visas. Australian SkillSelect (189, 190, 491), Canadian Express Entry (FSW, CEC, FST, all PNP variants), UK Skilled Worker, German Chancenkarte, and Australian 188A all now estimate your likely points against the actual cutoffs. Bachelor plus 3 years experience no longer earns 100% on visas where realistic points would land below the pool threshold. Your score reflects what you would actually score, with explicit notes about factors the quiz cannot capture (English test level, partner skills, occupation list, provincial nomination).
  • Quiz now asks for your age. Used to enforce age caps on working holiday and youth mobility visas (previously these recommended to 45-year-olds with a soft warning), and feeds into points calculations.
  • Pathways and direct matches compete in one ranking. The strongest route to your goal takes the featured slot, whether that is a single visa or a multi-step chain.
Fixed
  • Australian Working Holiday Maker (subclass 417) was being recommended to ineligible nationalities. The eligibility list (UK, Belgian, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Cypriot, Estonian, Hong Konger, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian, Swedish, Taiwanese) is now enforced.
  • Australian Work and Holiday (subclass 462) and UK Youth Mobility Scheme were silently filtering out eligible users due to a country-code format mismatch. Americans, Argentinians, Chileans, Indians, Israelis, Japanese, Koreans, New Zealanders, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, Icelanders, Singaporeans, Slovaks, Slovenians, Brazilians, Spanish, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Austrian, Filipino, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Malaysian, Peruvian, Swiss, and Luxembourgish nationals now correctly qualify.
  • Citizenship dropdown extended with 12 origins that were previously missing: New Zealander, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, Cypriot, Maltese, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Icelandic, Slovak, Slovenian, Luxembourgish.
  • Pathway algorithm now forward-projects your age across each step. A 35-year-old planning a 6-year chain is correctly evaluated against age caps that would apply at step 3 (when they are 38), not against age 35 throughout.
v0.6.02026-05-05
Added
  • Three new Australian city deep-dives. Brisbane, Perth, and Gold Coast, all sitting inside the designated regional area for the subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional visa. Major migration advantage over Sydney and Melbourne for skilled migrants who do not score high enough for the 189.
  • Weekly newsletter digest. Branded HTML, cron-driven (Mondays 09:00 UTC), pulls the last 7 days of news posts. One-click unsubscribe support via Gmail and Yahoo.
  • Self-serve /unsubscribe page so you can leave the list whenever, no email-Senne required.
v0.5.02026-05-04
Added
  • 18 city deep-dives across 8 countries. Cost of living, neighborhoods, what local devs make, visa programs available locally. Vancouver, NYC, Berlin, Lisbon, Sydney, and 13 others.
  • Country guide pages with a ranked CitiesGrid and per-visa programme-availability badges.
  • 10 hand-curated visa-vs-visa comparison pages at /compare/[a]/vs/[b].
  • News digest with 4 published posts. Week summary, US H-1B alternatives, Spain DNV threshold change, Canada Express Entry CRS 547 round.
  • Cycling 7-city hero video carousel: NYC, Vancouver, London, Sydney, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid.
  • Illustrated logo, mascot dioramas in the Solutions menu, consolidated Resources mega-menu (Guides, News, Compare, MCP).
  • Hot flame badges replacing the EU pill on popular destinations.
Changed
  • $49 plan now unlocks every visa pathway your quiz returned, not just the top match. Plans for non-top matches generate on-demand the first time you open them.
  • Dark and light favicon variants that adapt to OS preference.
  • Paid-state surfaces. Banner plus per-card Open my plan CTA on results.
  • Context-aware brand mark in nav, saturated Solutions card backgrounds.
v0.4.02026-05-03
Added
  • 15 new visa pathways via regional coverage expansion. Total catalog now 64 across 8 countries.
  • Live programme-status panel on every plan. Synced from IRCC and country-specific processing-time feeds. Tells you whether the door is currently open.
  • Personalized plans with checkable next-steps and cross-device task sync.
  • Quiz answers pre-fill the relevant checkboxes on each plan page so you do not retype your situation.
  • AI chat on /results that handles "but my situation is different" questions inline.
  • Two-phase match. Instant deterministic results, AI enrichment streams in.
  • D+1 personalized top-match deep-dive lifecycle email.
  • /vs/[competitor] programmatic comparison pages and /compare/visas side-by-side comparison.
  • Newspaper-style /path/[id] with a sticky Check your fit pill.
  • Verified-data stamps, pricing page, activity pulse, demo video slot on landing.
Changed
  • Paywall reset. $49 unlocks an actual artefact, killed the locked-card teaser pattern.
  • Hero positioning copy with dynamic count rendering.
  • Floating-pill navbar with two mega-menus (Solutions, Resources).
  • Instrument Serif + Inter typography via next/font.
  • ReportPreview now renders real matcher output, not mock data.
v0.3.02026-05-02
Added
  • Phase 2 country expansion. Spain, Netherlands, Portugal added to the existing US, CA, UK, AU, DE coverage. 8 countries total.
  • Registry-driven country architecture. Adding a new country is one entry, no scattered config.
  • MCP server. @transita/mcp-server npm package and /mcp landing page. Query Transita visa data directly from Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline.
  • Jobs flow rebuild. Careers-URL discovery skill, sponsor ingest pipeline for CA / AU / DE / US / YC, embeddings-based job matching, live matches UX on /jobs/results.
  • UKVI sponsor register ingest foundation.
  • Confirm-Your-Profile step after CV parse on /jobs.
  • /news weekly immigration digest infrastructure (markdown-driven, statically generated).
  • Newsletter signup on /news index and per-post pages.
  • Footer paper-craft global-landmarks illustration.
  • Page transitions adopted from Keepr (stay then glide up).
Changed
  • Family & couples immigration flow shipped (was in review).
  • Gemini auto-retry across model fallback chain on generateJson.
v0.2.02026-03-15
Added
  • Eligibility engine — 25 real visa entries (US, CA, UK, AU, DE) with deterministic matching; /compare page with country comparison table
  • Paywall — First result free, full report for $29 via Stripe Checkout; concierge tier ($199) waitlist capture
  • Job sponsorship flow — /jobs landing with CV upload (txt), 22 curated sponsorship-focused job boards, visa-job path explainer
  • Employer flow — /employer landing + 8-step HR quiz + sponsorship card results; "For employers" nav link
  • Family & couples flow — /couples landing + 6-step quiz + results; 16 family/spousal visa entries (K-1, CR-1/IR-1, CA Spousal, UK Appendix FM, AU Partner 820/309, DE Family Reunion)
Changed
  • Hero headline: "Know which visas you qualify for." with social proof pill
  • Subheadline updated with specific numbers (8 questions, 5 countries)
  • SocialProof section (previously Testimonials)
  • AI matching now deterministic-first, Anthropic as fallback only
Fixed
  • matchVisas() was not wired to the API — now primary engine
  • PDF/DOCX CV parsing removed (unreliable) — txt only
  • Quiz back button stale closure
  • 0% match score results filtered (minimum score: 20)
  • PaywallGate and ConciergeCapture were built but not wired to pages
v0.1.02026-03-14
Added
  • Initial launch: landing page, 8-step quiz, results page
  • SEO: sitemap, robots.txt, JSON-LD structured data
  • Funnel analytics (Vercel Analytics)
  • Visa glossary, animated stats, country cards
  • Domain: transita.app