Brunei or Türkiye
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
| Brunei | Türkiye | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 20 years | 5 years |
| Partner can work | no | — |
| Parents | — | difficult |
| Pets | no trouble | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | 2 |
| Quarantine | no | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 946 · estimate | $ 1 191 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 31,6 | $ 22,8 |
| Life expectancy | 75.5 | 77.42 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.49 | 2.41 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 2.8 | 5.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Brunei — 19, Türkiye — 15. Types present in both: work, family, investment and talent. Brunei adds: repatriation. Türkiye adds: study and job seeking.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Brunei: the fee is 50 BND wherever it is published. Türkiye: fees range from 4,677.9 to 125,802.2 TRY. Routes with a published decision deadline: 15; the shortest is 30 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Türkiye after 8 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Brunei after 20 years, Türkiye after 5 years. Türkiye allows a second citizenship, Brunei does not.
Brunei in brief
Brunei is an oil-and-gas monarchy on the island of Borneo with one of the most closed long-term entry regimes in the world. The grounds for working residence are the Employment Pass, rigidly tied to a specific employer and requiring the employer to hold a Foreign Workers Licence from the Department of Labour, the Professional Visit Pass for select categories of experts, the Dependant's Pass for family members, and the Student's Pass. For none of these categories does the immigration service's official website publish processing times. There is no separate permanent residence status with a published number of years: the closest analogue, the Entry Permit, is granted at the discretion of the Controller of Immigration without an objective criterion. Naturalisation is governed by the Brunei Nationality Act (Cap. 15): 20 years of residence in the country out of the preceding 25 years, an oral exam in Malay before the Language Board, and a decision made entirely at the Sultan's discretion; time spent in the country on temporary passes (including work passes) does not count toward this period unless the Sultan directs otherwise. Dual citizenship is not permitted. There is no personal income tax — the Income Tax Act taxes only the income of legal entities. The country's economy rests on the extraction and export of oil and natural gas. Since 2014 the Syariah Penal Code Order, 2013 has been phased in and is in force; under the code's direct provision (s. 3(1)) it applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims unless expressly stated otherwise, and it includes hudud and qisas categories of offences. The sale of alcohol is banned throughout the country (Excise Order, 2006, s. 73).
Türkiye in brief
Turkey is a transcontinental country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, with access to four seas. The work-permit system is built around a tie to the employer (for fixed-term permits), with the possibility of moving to indefinite status after 8 years of lawful employment or through the “turquoise card” for highly qualified specialists. Permanent residence is granted after 8 years of continuous residence, citizenship no earlier than 5 years, but by law the naturalisation decision is discretionary: meeting the formal conditions alone does not confer the right. Multiple citizenship is allowed. The family residence permit covers the sponsor's spouse and minor children, but not parents — neither one's own nor one's spouse's: only the general short-term residence permit on other grounds (for example, owning real estate) is available to them. Bringing in cats and dogs is possible subject to a mandatory laboratory rabies antibody titre test (no later than 30 days after vaccination and at least 3 months before entry) and a limit of 2 animals per passenger; official quarantine on arrival is not mentioned in the sources found. Six dog breeds, including the American Pit Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier, are banned from import and ownership. The country's largest cities differ markedly in character: Istanbul is the business and financial centre with the country's highest seismic hazard, Ankara is the administrative capital away from the sea, Izmir and Antalya are coastal cities with resort and tourism economies, and Bursa is an industrial automotive centre with the most affordable rent among the five largest cities.
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