Burundi or Benin
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| Burundi | Benin | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 3 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | 250 000 XOF |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 467 · estimate | $ 332 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 37,3 | $ 28,9 |
| Life expectancy | 63.82 | 60.96 |
| Homicides/100k | 5.65 | 1.13 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3 | 3.1 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Burundi — 17, Benin — 8. Types present in both: work and study. Burundi adds: family and investment.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Burundi: fees range from 25 to 1,200 USD. Routes with no fee: 7. Benin: fees range from 32,798 to 800,000 XOF. Routes with a published decision deadline: 6; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Burundi after 10 years, Benin after 6 years. Citizenship: Benin after 3 years; the other country publishes no term.
Burundi in brief
Burundi is a country with weak institutions and expensive connectivity alongside very cheap transport. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, control of corruption stands at −1.46, political stability at −1.38, rule of law at −1.30 and government effectiveness at −1.01. Life expectancy is 63.82 years, health spending 28.14 dollars per person per year, basic access to water reaches 65.92 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 concentration is 35.69 micrograms per cubic metre. Road deaths run at 12.3 per 100,000 and homicides at 5.65 per 100,000 (2016 data). Overall natural risk is 3.0 out of 10 on INFORM: earthquakes 4.6, droughts 3.8, floods 2.6; the country is landlocked, so cyclone, tsunami and coastal risks are zero. The unemployment figures — 0.92 per cent overall and 1.68 per cent among young people — reflect the structure of a labour market that is almost entirely informal and agricultural, not the absence of a problem finding work. One distinctive feature of prices: a month of internet costs 65.28 dollars against utilities of 16.92 and a monthly transport pass of 25.37. The immigration framework is published by the authority in full and reads without intermediaries: the service catalogue of the Directorate-General of Migration sets out, for every visa, the required documents, the fee and the period of validity. The establishment visa is issued for two years and requires a deposit in a blocked account — 1,500 dollars for one person or 5,000 for a family. Permanent residence is granted on one of several grounds: ten years of uninterrupted residence with proven investments, substantial investment creating durable employment for nationals, or marriage to a Burundian citizen, where the marriage condition is asymmetric by gender. What this data does not contain: the authority publishes no statutory processing times for any service, and the rules for importing cats and dogs are described neither by a national source nor by the veterinary authorities of other countries.
Benin in brief
Benin is noticeably calmer than the region's reputation suggests: 1.13 homicides per 100,000 people (World Bank, 2017 data — the authorities publish nothing more recent for the country), political stability −0.4 and control of corruption −0.24 on the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5. The strong points end there: life expectancy 60.96 years, health spending of 46.5 dollars per person a year, basic water access for 69.6 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 of 39.66 micrograms per cubic metre — nearly ten times the WHO guideline. Road deaths run at 24.8 per 100,000. Natural risk is moderate overall (3.1 out of 10 on INFORM), but flooding scores 6.7. The immigration framework has been rewritten from scratch and simplified: law No. 2025-15 of July 2025 and the decree of March 2026 left two resident statuses instead of three — an ordinary card for three years and a privileged one for ten. Two rules are worth knowing in advance: silence from the authority at the end of the decision period counts as a refusal, and a visa refusal cannot be appealed at all — three days are allowed to leave. Fees for nationals of ECOWAS states and for everyone else differ by a factor of five or more. There is no separate work permit: the labour directorate endorses the contract with a foreigner, and that is the employer's obligation.
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