Bangladesh or Sri Lanka
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| Bangladesh | Sri Lanka | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | — |
| Partner can work | — | no |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | difficult | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | 30 days |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 223 · estimate | $ 563 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 18,3 | $ 28,7 |
| Life expectancy | 74.93 | 77.67 |
| Homicides/100k | 1.76 | 2.51 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 8.1 | 3.9 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Bangladesh — 31, Sri Lanka — 24. Types present in both: work, study, family, investment, talent and repatriation. Bangladesh adds: working holiday. Sri Lanka adds: remote work and retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Bangladesh: fees range from 500 to 15,000 BDT. Routes with no fee: 2. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 75,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 29; the shortest is 3 days. Sri Lanka: fees range from 100 to 1,000 USD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes stating an income threshold: 8; the lowest is 1,500 USD a year.
Bangladesh in brief
Bangladesh carries the highest natural risk in this set and some of the dirtiest air. On INFORM its overall risk is 8.1 out of 10, and it is high on every front at once: floods 9.9, earthquakes 8.9, coastal risks 8.9, tsunami 8.1, cyclones 7.9; only drought is low, at 1.9. Mean PM2.5 concentration is 69.25 micrograms per cubic metre. Even so, life expectancy is 74.93 years — markedly higher than in countries with comparable health spending (53.46 dollars per person per year) — basic access to water reaches 98.78 per cent of the population, and homicides at 1.76 per 100,000 are among the lowest figures here. Inequality on the Gini index is 30.9. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, political stability stands at −1.46, control of corruption at −1.10, rule of law at −0.96 and government effectiveness at −0.62. Road deaths run at 18.6 per 100,000. The immigration framework rests on two features. Issue and extension are split between authorities: the visa is issued by a mission abroad and extended by the Department of Immigration and Passports, and the document lists differ between the two — for extension, almost every work category adds a work permit and security clearance. The recommendation for work and investment categories comes not from the migration authority but from the investment bodies BIDA and BEPZA. Family is handled systematically: an F prefix on the principal applicant's category (FE, FPI, FN, FJ and so on), with the visa running for the same period as theirs. The authority publishes its processing standard in its citizen's charter: visa issue takes 3–30 working days depending on the category and conditional on a favourable investigation report. What this data does not contain, and why: no permanent status appears in the list of visa categories, and no investment-based permanent residence scheme could be found in accessible sources. The rules for importing cats and dogs are given from the British export health certificate, since no national source exists; two strict conditions follow from it — a mandatory import permit from the Bangladeshi veterinary authority and an outright ban on commercial imports of animals. City populations are not given: the latest census reports figures for agglomerations rather than for cities within their boundaries.
Sri Lanka in brief
Sri Lanka is an island state in the Indian Ocean; the country's de jure capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, where parliament sits, but the neighbouring city of Colombo remains the economic, business and diplomatic centre. The Department of Immigration and Emigration operates 16 residence visa categories: among those in force are the Employment Category Residence Visa (including projects approved by the Board of Investment, BOI), the investor visa (from USD 100,000 for 5 years, or from USD 200,000 for 10 years) and the newly introduced digital nomad visa with an income threshold from USD 2,000 a month; the Resident Guest Scheme and My Dream Home programmes are closed to new applicants and allow only renewal by existing holders. No separate route to permanent residence or to citizenship by length of residence for a foreigner without Sri Lankan origin has been found in the authority's published materials, other than marriage to a Sri Lankan citizen (Permanent Residence Visa, category (b)); dual citizenship is available on application, but it is addressed to persons who already held or currently hold Sri Lankan citizenship. Bringing in dogs and cats requires a veterinary certificate and the statutory minimum 30-day quarantine. On the INFORM scale the country's tsunami risk is rated at 8.0 out of 10 — relevant for the coastal cities of the southern and eastern coasts, which were affected by the 2004 disaster.
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