Australia or Papua New Guinea
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
| Australia | Papua New Guinea | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | $ 63 614 | — |
| Citizenship | 4 years | — |
| Partner can work | yes | — |
| Parents | difficult | — |
| Pets | difficult | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | 10 days | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 2 036 | $ 308 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 42,7 | $ 21,6 |
| Life expectancy | 83.05 | 66.26 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.94 | 9.34 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 4.7 | 6 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Australia — 58, Papua New Guinea — 45. Types present in both: work, study, family, investment and talent. Australia adds: working holiday. Papua New Guinea adds: retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Australia: fees range from 50 to 11,710 AUD. Routes with no fee: 3. Routes stating an income threshold: 6; the lowest is 79,423 AUD a year. Papua New Guinea: fees range from 40 to 1,700 USD. Routes with no fee: 10. Routes stating an income threshold: 2; the lowest is 25,000 PGK a year.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Papua New Guinea after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Australia after 4 years; the other country publishes no term.
Australia in brief
The points system admits you without an employer (189/190, permanent residence straight away) or through sponsorship (Skills in Demand/482, tied to the employer). Natural hazards lean towards weather rather than earthquakes — fires, heat, floods. Parent reunification is formally possible but runs into either the cost or decades of waiting. Pets need a year of planning, counting the titre test and quarantine.
Papua New Guinea in brief
Papua New Guinea carries one of the highest seismic risks in this set and the lowest access to water. On INFORM its overall natural risk is 6.0 out of 10, of which earthquakes 9.2, tsunami 7.1, coastal risks 6.3 and floods 4.6. Basic access to water covers 53.3 per cent of the population, lower than in any other country in this guide. Life expectancy is 66.26 years and health spending 85.15 dollars per person per year. The air, by contrast, is clean: mean PM2.5 concentration is 14.11 micrograms per cubic metre. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, government effectiveness stands at −0.90, control of corruption at −0.80, political stability at −0.65 and rule of law at −0.57. Road deaths run at 14.9 per 100,000; the homicide data is old, 9.34 per 100,000 for 2010. The unemployment figures — 2.57 per cent overall and 3.79 among young people — reflect the structure of a labour market that is almost entirely informal and subsistence-based, not the absence of a problem finding work. The immigration framework is unusual in the balance of what it publishes. Visa categories are described in words but almost never in numbers: the authority makes the validity of a visa depend on the applicant's circumstances and invites enquiries for details. Only the maximum lengths of stay are published — 60 days on the visitor visa and 30 on the business visa, both single entry. The work permit and the work visa, meanwhile, are brought into a SINGLE application lodged by the employer through the sponsor portal rather than by the worker. Permanent residence, by contrast, is set out in detail and with figures: seven classes — chief executive of a large company, business owner, doctor or educationist, missionary, retiree over 55, spouse of a citizen, adult child of a citizen doing voluntary work — and in all seven the qualifying period is the same, five years; what differs are the income and asset thresholds. What this data does not contain, and why: the authority publishes no processing standards for any category. Importing cats and dogs is difficult not because of vaccinations but because of the route: an import permit from the Chief Stock Inspector is mandatory, and the import goes via Australia with quarantine there, whose duration is set by the Australian side. City populations are not given: no official source separating city from province could be found.
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