Australia or Solomon Islands
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| Australia | Solomon Islands | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | $ 63 614 | — |
| Citizenship | 4 years | — |
| Partner can work | yes | no |
| Parents | difficult | — |
| Pets | difficult | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | 10 days | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 2 036 | $ 781 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 42,7 | $ 37,9 |
| Life expectancy | 83.05 | 70.69 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.94 | 3.73 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 4.7 | 5.3 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Australia — 58, Solomon Islands — 31. Types present in both: work, study and family. Australia adds: investment, talent and working holiday.
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. Solomon Islands: fees range from 100 to 1,500 USD. Routes with no fee: 13.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Solomon Islands after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Australia after 4 years; the other country publishes no term. A spouse’s right to work: Australia — yes, Solomon Islands — no.
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.
Solomon Islands in brief
The Solomon Islands have high natural hazards and, unusually for this part of the guide, positive governance figures. On the World Bank scale, political stability is +0.75, rule of law +0.15, control of corruption −0.14 and government effectiveness −0.87. Overall natural hazard is 5.3 out of 10 on INFORM and entirely tectonic: tsunami at 7.8 — the sixteenth highest figure among 168 countries — earthquakes 7.1, coastal hazards 6.8, cyclones 3.6, and no river flooding at all. The air is very clean: PM2.5 at 9.77 micrograms per cubic metre. Life expectancy is 70.69 years, health spending 111.36 dollars per person per year, and basic water access reaches 71.61 percent of the population. Road deaths run at 11.2 per 100,000. The internet is the fifth most expensive in this guide: 90.39 dollars a month. National utility bills run at 257.67 dollars a month, and a one-bedroom in Honiara rents for 516 euros. The immigration framework is described by the authority in unusual detail: for each of more than twenty visas it publishes the fee, a separate online fee, the visa's validity, the maximum period of stay and the right to work. Distinguishing the last two is essential: on the tourist visa the visa is valid for 30 days from arrival, while a stay of up to 150 days is allowed. Three features shape a foreigner's experience. First: the right to work comes not from the visa but from a PERMIT issued by the Commissioner of Labour — on the long-term work visa the maximum stay is set by that permit rather than the visa, and even a permanent resident does not acquire the right to work automatically. Second: the application is lodged while the person is OUTSIDE the country, repeated on every visa page. Third: the authority publishes no processing time and says so outright — "we do not guarantee a specific timeframe". Permanent residence comes after FIVE YEARS of continuous lawful residence on other visas, costs 1,500 dollars — the most expensive document in the catalogue — is valid five years and is renewable; the five years are proved through visa history or a Border Management System record number. A citizen's family receives a visa of its own for 300 dollars with a stay of up to two years, but work on it requires separate authorisation. 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. The conditions for citizenship were not read on this pass: PacLII, which holds the laws of Oceania, is closed behind a Cloudflare check. The city's population is not given: no official source separating Honiara from the province could be found.
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This material is for reference and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Visa rules, tax thresholds and prices change. Before deciding anything, check the official sources and consult a licensed professional in the relevant country.