Kazakhstan or Nepal
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
| Kazakhstan | Nepal | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | 15 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | difficult |
| Pet limit | 5 | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 671 · estimate | $ 254 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 22,0 | $ 15,8 |
| Life expectancy | 74.53 | 70.64 |
| Homicides/100k | 2.55 | 2.13 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.9 | 5.1 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Kazakhstan — 50, Nepal — 22. Types present in both: work, study, family, investment, talent and repatriation. Kazakhstan adds: remote work. Nepal adds: retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Kazakhstan: fees range from 80 to 200 USD. Routes with no fee: 21. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 3,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 49; the shortest is 1 days. Nepal: fees range from 10 to 700 USD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes stating an income threshold: 5; the lowest is 3,000 USD a year. Routes with a published decision deadline: 22; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Kazakhstan after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Kazakhstan after 5 years, Nepal after 15 years. Neither recognises a second citizenship.
Kazakhstan in brief
Kazakhstan is Central Asia's largest economy, built on oil and gas, an EAEU member with visa-free entry for nationals of EAEU states and a number of other passports, and a standard residence permit procedure (from 7 working days on the fast track, valid for up to 10 years). Dual citizenship is not permitted. Almaty is the business and IT centre, with high seismic risk; Astana is a climatically extreme but seismically quiet capital. Some data (IT salaries, official homicide statistics, net migration) could not be confirmed from open sources and has been left empty.
Nepal in brief
Nepal is a South Asian country outside the EU and outside the Gulf, with a narrow system of long-stay visas: the work visa is issued under the general “non-tourist visa” category and requires a separate permit from the Government of Nepal for paid employment (via the Department of Labour), issued for no more than 1 year at a time; the business visa for investors — up to 5 years; the Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) visa — up to 10 years, but available only to people of Nepali origin or citizens of Nepal who have long lived abroad; the residential visa for investors of USD 100,000 or more, or for persons of international standing, is issued by the Department of Immigration for the first year and then renewed annually, without automatically becoming a permanent status — Nepali law has no permanent residence permit in the European sense. Naturalisation to Nepali citizenship is available in practice almost exclusively to persons with a special contribution to the country's development, requires 15 years of residence, knowledge of Nepali or another language used in Nepal, and renunciation of prior citizenship; dual citizenship is not permitted in any form. An expedited route to citizenship through marriage exists only for foreign wives of Nepali citizens, not for foreign husbands of Nepali female citizens. Seismic hazard here is not a technical detail but a systemic fact: the country lies in the collision zone of the Indian and Eurasian plates, INFORM rates the earthquake component at 9.8 out of 10, and the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake (M7.8) claimed almost 9,000 lives and damaged a significant part of the historic building stock of the Kathmandu Valley. At the same time, the country holds several UNESCO World Heritage sites (the Kathmandu Valley, Lumbini — the birthplace of Buddha, Chitwan National Park), and the cost of rent and living is lower than the regional average.
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