Jordan or Pakistan
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| Jordan | Pakistan | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 4 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 505 · estimate | $ 145 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 25,1 | $ 14,8 |
| Life expectancy | 77.98 | 67.8 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.84 | 4.33 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.4 | 7.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Jordan — 10, Pakistan — 22. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Pakistan adds: repatriation.
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. Pakistan: fees range from 200 to 400 PKR. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes with a published decision deadline: 9; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Jordan with no residence period; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Jordan after 4 years; the other country publishes no term. Both allow a second citizenship.
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.
Pakistan in brief
Pakistan is the world's fifth most populous country, with English-language official paperwork and a visible IT outsourcing industry in Karachi and Lahore. The work route has two steps: a mission abroad issues an entry work visa for three months — within 48 hours under the service's own rules and without security clearance — while an extension of up to two years with multiple entries is decided by the Ministry of Interior, where clearance is mandatory, as is a recommendation from the Board of Investment. The visa policy sets out a rule rare for the region: if the agencies do not answer within 30 days, the case counts as approved. The visa is issued to the worker and the family at once. The directorate describes no permanent residence for an ordinary foreigner: a long stay rests on renewing the visa. Citizenship is available on a closed list of grounds, and the list is asymmetric by sex — a foreign woman married to a Pakistani man is on it, a foreign man married to a Pakistani woman is not. Bringing in cats and dogs requires a prior permit from the agriculture ministry, while antibody titration is not needed. The background in figures: life expectancy 67.8 years (World Bank, 2024), homicides 4.33 per 100,000 (UNODC, 2024), average PM2.5 concentration 58.4 µg/m³ — almost twelve times the WHO guideline (World Bank, 2023). INFORM rates natural risks at 7.4 out of 10, with floods at 9.5 and earthquakes at 9.2 — among the highest values in the world.
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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.