Kyrgyzstan or Cambodia
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
| Kyrgyzstan | Cambodia | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | — |
| Pet limit | 2 | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 674 · estimate | $ 724 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 19,5 | $ 31,8 |
| Life expectancy | 72.4 | 70.82 |
| Homicides/100k | 1.75 | 1.82 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Kyrgyzstan — 17, Cambodia — 12. Types present in both: work and repatriation. Kyrgyzstan adds: remote work, study, family and investment.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Kyrgyzstan: every route that publishes a fee charges nothing. Routes with a published decision deadline: 15; the shortest is 7 days. Cambodia: fees range from 15 to 100 USD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes with a published decision deadline: 12; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Kyrgyzstan after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Kyrgyzstan after 5 years; the other country publishes no term.
Kyrgyzstan in brief
On the sum of its formal conditions, Kyrgyzstan is the most accessible way into Central Asia. Five years of lawful residence give permanent residence, five more open the way to citizenship, and the law's language requirement can be met in Russian: it holds official-language status, which is rare among post-Soviet states. Dual citizenship is allowed, but article 22 attaches three caveats: an international treaty is needed, it is not recognised for citizens of neighbouring states, and a holder of two passports may not be president, a member of parliament or a judge. Membership of the Eurasian Economic Union removes the work permit for citizens of the union and extends the union's pet import rules — up to two animals with no permit and no quarantine. Held back by control of corruption at −1.14, seismicity of 7.7 out of 10, winter smog in the Chuy valley, and skilled work concentrated almost entirely in Bishkek.
Cambodia in brief
Cambodia combines one of the region's most accessible long-stay visa regimes with the absence, for most foreigners, of an ordinary route to permanent residence: a type E visa can be renewed within the country for up to a year at a time an unlimited number of times, but it remains a temporary status that does not turn into a residence permit and does not count toward citizenship. A formal permanent resident status is provided for in the 1994 immigration law, but the grounds and procedure for obtaining it are not publicly described in a verifiable form in practice. The cost of living and rent are among the lowest in Southeast Asia, and the US dollar circulates alongside the riel. Rule-of-law and control-of-corruption scores (World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators) are noticeably below the global average.
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