Angola or Eswatini
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| Angola | Eswatini | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | — |
| Partner can work | — | no |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 593 · estimate | $ 341 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 20,8 | $ 21,1 |
| Life expectancy | 64.81 | 64.26 |
| Homicides/100k | 4.1 | 13.68 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3 | 1.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Angola — 21, Eswatini — 18. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Eswatini 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. Eswatini: fees range from 600 to 6,000 SZL. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 5,000 SZL a year.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: both after 10 years.
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.
Eswatini in brief
Eswatini runs to extremes in both directions. **Unemployment at 34.2 percent is the highest in this guide**, youth unemployment at 54.33 is third highest, and the Gini coefficient of 54.6 is the third highest figure — though it dates from 2016 and is flagged as stale. And at the same time **natural threats here are almost absent**: overall hazard is 1.8 out of 10 on INFORM, the seventh lowest among 168 countries — there is no sea, so no coastal hazard and no tsunami at all, earthquakes are 0.1, flooding 1.8, cyclones 0.2, and only drought at 4.7 is appreciable. Life expectancy is 64.26 years, health spending 296.05 dollars per person per year, water access reaches 80.37 percent of the population, and PM2.5 stands at 16.75 micrograms per cubic metre. Homicides run at 13.68 per 100,000 and road deaths at 24.7. On the World Bank scale, control of corruption is −0.79, rule of law −0.86, government effectiveness −0.78 and political stability −0.73 — appreciably better than most of its neighbours in this part of the guide. A one-bedroom in Manzini rents for 134 euros a month, among the lowest in this guide. The immigration framework is described by three Ministry of Home Affairs documents, and the ministry publishes all three itself: the Act of 1982, the Regulations of 1987 and the service charter. The Act sets ten classes of entry permit, A to J, and nine of the "useful" classes carry the condition "of benefit to the country" written into their very definition. The employer must confirm that the vacancy was advertised at full page, and during the assessment the localization department checks that the skill is not available inside the country. The charter prints the standard step by step: up to thirty minutes to lodge the documents, up to three days for vetting by the police and the localization department, one day for the committee, one day to issue the outcome — about five days for a temporary permit. For a visa: five minutes to receive it, two days for police vetting, one day for approval. Settlement is class J, and the road to it is unusual: ten years of continuous residence AND a completed "Khonta" under Swazi customary law — the act of pledging allegiance to a chief — AND proof that the person applied for citizenship and was not refused. A class J holder, like the class I person of independent means, loses the permit on taking up any employment, paid or unpaid. Family runs through the dependant's pass, which a citizen of the country may also request; the pass expires thirty days after the dependant takes up employment. What is not in this data: the processing time for a citizenship application — the charter states outright that the Citizenship Board determines it after going through each application. The procedure for bringing in cats and dogs is described neither by a national source nor by other countries' veterinary authorities. City populations are not given: no official source separating the city from the region could be found.
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