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> Well, plenty can lead to it eventually, usually offering some kind of pathway. Even the US provides pathways to permanent residence (and then citizenship) through employment.

The US has a lot of visas for longer term professional work, that do not allow you to obtain the right to permanent residency or citizenship, at least on paper (for example, one way to get in: these individuals however, are allowed to get married to a US citizen and can theoretically, at least, get in that way).

So, the US and Estonia are not much different, in this respect. But, in these situations, what it comes down to, in order to stay long term: formal in-person connections in the respective country.