Jordan or South Korea
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| Jordan | South Korea | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | $ 61 452 |
| Citizenship | 4 years | 5 years |
| Partner can work | — | no |
| Parents | — | difficult |
| Pets | — | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | 5 |
| Quarantine | — | 10 days |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 505 · estimate | $ 999 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 25,1 | $ 40,9 |
| Life expectancy | 77.98 | 83.63 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.84 | 0.49 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.4 | 6 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Jordan — 10, South Korea — 91. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. South Korea adds: startup, talent, repatriation, job seeking and working holiday.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Jordan: fees range from 2 to 52 JOD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes stating an income threshold: 2; the lowest is 10,000 JOD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 10; the shortest is 5 days. South Korea: fees range from 60 to 90 USD. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 1,500,000,000 KRW a month.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Jordan with no residence period, South Korea after 5 years. Citizenship: Jordan after 4 years, South Korea after 5 years. Jordan allows a second citizenship, South Korea does not.
Jordan in brief
Jordan combines an ordinary labour-migration system — a work permit from the Ministry of Labour and an annually renewable, employer-tied residence permit — with a parallel investor track: buying real estate worth at least JOD 200,000 grants 5-year residency with no requirement for prior residence in the country, and since 2018 a separate citizenship-by-investment programme has been in force, with several routes ranging from a USD 1 million interest-bearing deposit to setting up a production project with a fixed number of jobs for citizens. Ordinary naturalisation by residence takes 4 years for most foreigners, but 15 years for citizens of other Arab countries with an Arab father — a case where the requirements for one group of foreigners are stricter than for another. Citizenship passes through the paternal line: a foreign wife of a citizen can naturalise after 5 years of marriage (3 years if she is a citizen of an Arab League country), whereas the foreign husband of a female citizen has no simplified route, and the children of a female citizen and a foreigner do not automatically receive citizenship. Dual citizenship has been permitted since 1987. The country is one of the most water-poor regions in the world: renewable internal freshwater resources per capita are about 61 m³ a year (2022) — an order of magnitude below the UN-recognised absolute-scarcity threshold of 500 m³. Homicides are rare (0.84 per 100,000), life expectancy is 78 years, but unemployment is high — 16.5% overall and almost 39% among youth. Aqaba, on the Red Sea, is administered separately from the rest of the country by its own Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), with its own tax and customs rules.
South Korea in brief
South Korea combines a developed technology economy and low violent crime with a formal points system for long-term residence (E-7 → F-2-7 → F-5) and substantial restrictions on dual citizenship and on a spouse working. Parents, your own or a partner's, can only get the temporary renewable F-1-15 visa with no right to work. Natural hazards are moderate — seasonal typhoons and monsoon floods, earthquakes rare; the notable problem is air quality, the worst among OECD countries.
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