Cameroon or Mozambique
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
| Cameroon | Mozambique | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 5 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 807 · estimate | $ 731 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 34,0 | $ 32,2 |
| Life expectancy | 63.97 | 63.8 |
| Homicides/100k | 6.76 | 3.59 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.5 | 5.2 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Cameroon — 10, Mozambique — 18. Types present in both: work, study and family. Mozambique adds: investment.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Cameroon: fees range from 75,000 to 750,000 XAF. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes with a published decision deadline: 5; the shortest is 3 days. Mozambique: not a single route publishes its fee. Routes with a published decision deadline: 7; the shortest is 5 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Cameroon after 4 years, Mozambique after 10 years. Citizenship: Mozambique after 5 years; the other country publishes no term.
Cameroon in brief
Cameroon is a country with very dirty air and a marked price gap between its two main cities. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, political stability stands at −1.56, rule of law at −1.25, control of corruption at −1.22 and government effectiveness at −0.80. Life expectancy is 63.97 years, health spending 79.10 dollars per person a year, and basic water access reaches 71.41 per cent of the population. Mean PM2.5 concentration is 55.6 micrograms per cubic metre, one of the worst figures in the sample. Homicides run at 6.76 per 100,000, road deaths at 10.6 per 100,000, and the Gini index is 42.2. Natural risk overall is 3.5 out of 10 on INFORM and almost entirely water-related: floods 6.7, droughts 3.4, coastal hazards 2.6, whereas earthquakes are at 0.1 and there are no cyclones or tsunamis at all. The immigration framework has been published by the agency in full and rests on a single rule worth grasping in advance: the right to work is conferred not by the residence card but by the visa. Only the long-stay visa opens the right to paid activity and to study, and it is also a mandatory condition for the residence card. The employment contract, moreover, is endorsed by the labour minister before entry. The agencies state the visa issuing standard differently: the foreign ministry says 72 hours after pre-registration and 24 hours under the expedited procedure, DGSN says no more than 48 hours. The residence card is valid for two years and is renewed twice, the resident card for ten years; under decree No. 2025/059 of 28 February 2025 it is obtained after the SECOND renewal of the residence card, whereas the former section of the DGSN site spoke of the third. There is also a direct route through marriage, but here too the agency's texts diverge: the new section writes “the spouse of a person of foreign nationality”, the former one “the spouse of a Cameroonian citizen”. In both documents the fee depends on the applicant's nationality rather than on the type of document, and a separate rate is set aside for the French. What is not in this data: the agency publishes a processing standard only for the visa, but not for the residence card or the resident card; city populations are not given, because no official source separating the city from the region was found. The rent gap between Douala and Yaoundé is taken from the source as it stands — it is reproduced across all the lines, not just one, and the source offers no explanation for it.
Mozambique in brief
Mozambique is a Portuguese-speaking country in south-east Africa with a coastline on the Indian Ocean; the official language is Portuguese. Land is state-owned: neither the country's own citizens nor foreigners have ownership of land, only the right to use and develop it (DUAT), granted by the state. Malaria is widespread across most of the territory year-round. Coastal areas, including Beira, are regularly hit by tropical cyclones during the rainy season (December–March) — in March 2019 Cyclone Idai destroyed a significant part of Beira. Large offshore natural gas fields are being developed in the north of the country (Cabo Delgado province, Palma district), and the same province has been the site of an armed conflict since 2017: as of early August 2026 the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) advises against all travel to Cabo Delgado province except the town of Palma and the area around Pemba and Afungi, to which it advises against all but essential travel.
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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.