Lebanon or Oman
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| Lebanon | Oman | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 15 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | difficult |
| Pets | — | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | 72 000 000 LBP | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 1 014 · estimate | $ 799 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 37,8 | $ 29,9 |
| Life expectancy | 77.94 | 80.25 |
| Homicides/100k | 2.64 | 0.14 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Lebanon — 48, Oman — 25. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Lebanon adds: repatriation. Oman adds: talent.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Lebanon: fees range from 20,000 to 216,000,000 LBP. Routes with no fee: 4. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 50,000,000 LBP a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 1; the shortest is 4 days. Oman: fees range from 10 to 500 OMR. Routes with no fee: 3. Routes with a published decision deadline: 14; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Citizenship: Oman after 15 years; the other country publishes no term.
Lebanon in brief
Lebanon combines high seismic risk and low governance figures with reasonably good population health. Earthquakes at 8.2 out of 10 on INFORM are the principal natural hazard; there is no river flooding at all, drought is 2.9, coastal hazards 3.2, tsunami 3.9, and overall natural hazard 3.9. On the World Bank scale, political stability is −1.39 (the twenty-fifth lowest figure among 173 countries), control of corruption −1.30, government effectiveness −1.13 and rule of law −1.09. Yet life expectancy is 77.94 years — higher than most of its neighbours in this part of the guide — health spending is 260.81 dollars per person per year, water access reaches 92.6 percent of the population, road deaths run at 9.7 per 100,000 and homicides at 2.64. The air is middling: PM2.5 at 26.69. Unemployment is 10.98 percent, and 22.74 among young people. A one-bedroom in Beirut rents for 666 euros a month with utilities at 174, and the monthly transit pass costs 69.34 dollars — one of the most expensive in this guide. The immigration framework rests on a single authority, the General Directorate of General Security, and it publishes every service as a table: type of request, fee, required documents. Not one service has a column for processing time. What shapes everything is the tie to a sponsor and to the work permit: the annual residence permit is the main form, and it is also what family members of a worker receive. **The word "permanent" here does not mean indefinite.** The directorate has a page headed "Permanent residence", and that same page states that such a permit is issued for two or for three years. Years lived in the country do not lead to it: the grounds are a cash guarantee of 4.5 billion pounds (with a written undertaking not to work if the applicant is under 64), business or investment for nationals of Arab countries, or holding a three-year or two-year work permit of the first and second category. It is separately stipulated that this permit is not granted to Egyptian nationals. The family route runs through the free courtesy residence permit, and its conditions are asymmetric by the sex of the Lebanese spouse: the husband of a Lebanese woman needs a marriage older than a year, the wife of a Lebanese man must not work. What is not in this data: the directorate publishes no processing time for any service — every table has a fee and a document list, but no deadlines. The procedure for bringing in cats and dogs is described neither by a national source nor by other countries' veterinary authorities: APHIS lists only turtles for Lebanon. The city's population is not given: no official source separating Beirut from the governorate could be found.
Oman in brief
Oman is built as a country for a long stint of work rather than for settling: there is no permanent residence at all, and the most on offer is the investor residence permit of 5 or 10 years, relaunched in August 2025, starting at 250,000 Omani rials. It does, however, let you bring a spouse, children and parents with no limit on age or number, which is rare in this part of the guide. Citizenship remains a distant prospect: the 2025 law cut the period from 20 years to 15, but it requires fluent Arabic with reading and writing, renunciation of the previous passport, and allows 36 months for a decision. The government's own service page still describes the old 20-year rule — a discrepancy worth keeping in mind. The country's strengths are measurable: homicide at 0.14 per 100,000, control of corruption at +0.51, life expectancy of 80.25 years and no personal income tax. Against that: heat above +45, desert dust in the air, cyclones on the coast and a difficult process for bringing pets.
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