Angola or Liberia
Two countries side by side across the same rows as the full comparison. A dash means the value is missing: fields are not filled with guesses. about the data
| Angola | Liberia | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 2 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | $ 750 |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 593 · estimate | $ 281 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 20,8 | $ 20,2 |
| Life expectancy | 64.81 | 62.32 |
| Homicides/100k | 4.1 | 3.09 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3 | 3.9 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Angola — 21, Liberia — 11. Types present in both: work, study and family. Angola adds: investment. Liberia adds: retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Angola: fees range from 30,500 to 76,250 AOA. Routes with a published decision deadline: 20; the shortest is 15 days. Liberia: fees range from 25 to 750 USD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes with a published decision deadline: 10; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Angola after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Liberia after 2 years; the other country publishes no term.
Angola in brief
Angola is a country with an expensive capital and weak institutions: rule of law −1.17, control of corruption −0.62 and political stability −0.57 on the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, and a Gini index of 51.3 — among the highest in the world. Life expectancy is 64.81 years, basic water access reaches 68 per cent of the population, and unemployment stands at 14.1 per cent. What is markedly better than regional neighbours: 4.1 homicides per 100,000 (2016 data) and the air — PM2.5 at 19.91 micrograms per cubic metre. Natural risks are moderate (3.0 out of 10 on INFORM). The immigration framework was rewritten by law No. 13/19 and rests on a principle found almost nowhere else: a visa is not a step towards residence but a permission for a specific occupation. The tourist, study, medical, short-duration, border and — most importantly — work visas expressly forbid establishing residence. Only the residence-establishment visa and the temporary-stay visa for the family of a resident or the spouse of a citizen lead to a residence permit. The work visa additionally ties the holder to a single employer. Permanent residence is granted after ten years of temporary residence and has no expiry. The law's deadlines are firm in both directions: 30 days to decide a residence application, 15 working days for inter-agency opinions, and silence counts as consent.
Liberia in brief
Liberia has flooding as its principal natural hazard and an immigration authority unusually transparent for the region. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, government effectiveness is −1.25, control of corruption −1.05, and rule of law −0.87; political stability at −0.23 is markedly better than its governance neighbours. Life expectancy is 62.32 years, health spending 103.94 dollars per person per year, basic water access reaches 78.83 percent of the population, and the mean PM2.5 concentration is 17.92 micrograms per cubic metre — the air here is appreciably cleaner than the regional average. Road deaths run at 15.3 per 100,000. Overall natural hazard is 3.9 out of 10 on INFORM, and it is almost entirely water-borne: flooding 7.5, coastal hazards 4.1, tsunami 2.5, while earthquakes at 0.1 and drought at 0.4 are practically absent. The unemployment figures — 2.88 percent overall and 2.3 among young people — reflect a labour market that is almost wholly informal rather than an absence of trouble finding work. Prices are spread wide: a one-bedroom rents for 208.55 dollars a month, with utilities at 58.9 and a monthly transit pass at 11.37. The immigration service publishes a service delivery charter for 2024–2029, a rare document for the region: for every service it gives a code, the conditions, the fee, the target turnaround and the responsible unit. Family there is not a separate procedure but a separate line in the tariff — a residence permit for a spouse and for a minor child is processed exactly as the principal one. There is no permanent status in the country, and that follows from the law rather than from the charter's silence: the Alien and Nationality Law of 1973 knows two long-stay classes of foreigner — "alien residents" with a term of up to a year, and "immigrants", who enter intending to remain indefinitely and become citizens — but both must hold the permit of residence under § 6.1, and it is good for exactly one year, renewed annually. Fifteen years lived there move a person not into a permanent class but into the same annual one. There is one way out of that cycle — naturalisation — and § 21.1 attaches a racial condition to it: only Negroes and persons of Negro descent are admitted to citizenship. For everyone else the annual permit is the terminal status. Naturalisation itself has two stages: a declaration of intention, then, no sooner than two years later, a petition, backed by two years of continuous lawful residence before it is filed. What is not in this data: the procedure for bringing in cats and dogs is described neither by a national source nor by other countries' veterinary authorities — neither the British nor the American service has ever drawn up an export certificate for Liberia. Whether the 1973 rule stripping citizenship on naturalisation abroad is still in force could not be checked: the parliament's site does not respond, and no amendments appear in the Ministry of Justice's sections.
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Liberia or… Madagascar · Sierra Leone · Uganda · Zambia · Eswatini · Lesotho · Mozambique · Republic of the Congo
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