Iraq or Timor-Leste
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| Iraq | Timor-Leste | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 10 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | doable |
| Pets | no trouble | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 608 · estimate | $ 274 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 18,0 | $ 20,6 |
| Life expectancy | 72.42 | 67.9 |
| Homicides/100k | 9.46 | 4.07 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 5.7 | 3.3 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Iraq — 29, Timor-Leste — 11. Types present in both: work, study and investment. Iraq adds: family and talent.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Iraq: the fee is 100,000 IQD wherever it is published. Routes with a published decision deadline: 3; the shortest is 1 days. Timor-Leste: fees range from 20 to 150 USD. Routes with a published decision deadline: 2; the shortest is 15 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Timor-Leste after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Timor-Leste after 10 years; the other country publishes no term.
Iraq in brief
Iraq scores very low on governance and very high on water-related hazards. On the World Bank scale, which runs roughly from −2.5 to +2.5, political stability is −2.06 — eighth from the bottom among the 173 countries with data — rule of law is −1.36, control of corruption −1.21, and government effectiveness −1.10. Life expectancy is 72.42 years, health spending 333.29 dollars per person per year, basic water access reaches 98.41 percent of the population, and the mean PM2.5 concentration is 49.47 micrograms per cubic metre. Road deaths run at 21.5 per 100,000. Unemployment is 15.48 percent, and 32.01 percent among young people. Overall natural hazard is 5.7 out of 10 on INFORM: flooding 9.6, drought 7.5, earthquakes 5.1, coastal hazards 4.6, with no cyclone or tsunami exposure at all. The immigration framework is published as Law No. 76 of 2017 and was translated into English by the Ministry of Justice itself. One feature defines it: **there is no permanent status in the country**. An ordinary residence card is issued for no more than one year and renewed year by year as many times as the grounds persist; the maximum is a three-year renewable card, granted only on six enumerated grounds, among them 15 years of continuous residence, six years under a contract with the government, scientific and cultural service, study at a religious seminary, and business or investment. Marriage to a citizen leads to that same three-year card, not to a separate family status. There are eleven visa categories, each with precise periods, and two of them — visiting and tourist — expressly forbid working anywhere in the country, whether paid or unpaid. Duties fall on the receiving side too, on short clocks: an employer notifies the authority within 48 hours of hiring a worker and of that worker's departure, a hotel within two days of arrival and departure, and whoever brings a foreigner in to work must post financial guarantees or a return ticket. What is not in this data: the law sets no standard for deciding an application — it fixes only the appeal periods (15 days to object, 30 to answer) and counts the waiting time as legitimate residence. City populations are not given: no official source separating the city from the governorate could be found.
Timor-Leste in brief
Timor-Leste is a state independent since 2002 that uses the US dollar as its official currency: the country has no currency of its own. The official languages are Portuguese and Tetum; Indonesian and English are recognised as working languages (Constitution of the RDTL, s. 159). A significant share of the state budget is financed by transfers from the Petroleum Fund (Fundo Petrolífero), managed by the Central Bank of Timor-Leste on revenue from the Timor Sea's oil and gas fields; according to the Central Bank, the fund's balance stood at US$18.75 billion as of 31 May 2026 (bancocentral.tl/en/petroleum-fund). The country lies in the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire — the INFORM index rates the country's earthquake risk at 5.8 out of 10 and tsunami risk at 3.9 out of 10. Malaria and dengue are endemic across most of the territory (World Health Organization). The legal framework for foreigners' temporary and permanent stay is the Migration and Asylum Law No. 11/2017 (as amended by Law No. 10/2021); the country belongs to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), but as of the date checked the declaratively adopted CPLP mobility agreement is not reflected in the migration authority's official list of visa exemptions.
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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.