Burundi or Cote d'Ivoire
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| Burundi | Cote d'Ivoire | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 5 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 467 · estimate | $ 842 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 37,3 | — |
| Life expectancy | 63.82 | 62.11 |
| Homicides/100k | 5.65 | — |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3 | 2.9 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Burundi — 17, Cote d'Ivoire — 12. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Cote d'Ivoire adds: retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Burundi: fees range from 25 to 1,200 USD. Routes with no fee: 7. Cote d'Ivoire: fees range from 35,000 to 300,000 XOF. Routes with a published decision deadline: 10; the shortest is 7 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Burundi after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Cote d'Ivoire after 5 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.
Cote d'Ivoire in brief
Côte d'Ivoire is the largest economy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a Francophone country with its local currency (the CFA franc) pegged to the euro, and the world's largest cocoa producer. The official capital under the Constitution is Yamoussoukro, but the government, ministries and most foreign missions are in practice located in the economic capital, Abidjan, which remains the country's main centre of employment, business activity and infrastructure. As a founding member of ECOWAS, Côte d'Ivoire grants citizens of the community the right of free entry, residence and economic activity under protocols A/P.1/5/79, A/SP.1/7/86 and A/SP.2/5/90; for other foreigners the main mechanism for long-term stay is the carte de résident, issued through the Office National de l'État Civil et de l'Identification (ONECI). Malaria is present throughout the territory; the apostille is not used as a form of document legalisation. Fewer automated country indicators are available than for most of the region's neighbours, which limits the statistical part of the overview.
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