Lebanon or Türkiye
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| Lebanon | Türkiye | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 5 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | difficult |
| Pets | — | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | 2 |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | 72 000 000 LBP | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 1 014 · estimate | $ 1 191 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 37,8 | $ 22,8 |
| Life expectancy | 77.94 | 77.42 |
| Homicides/100k | 2.64 | 2.41 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.9 | 5.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Lebanon — 48, Türkiye — 15. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Lebanon adds: repatriation. Türkiye adds: talent and job seeking.
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. Türkiye: fees range from 4,677.9 to 125,802.2 TRY. Routes with a published decision deadline: 15; the shortest is 30 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Türkiye after 8 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Türkiye after 5 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.
Türkiye in brief
Turkey is a transcontinental country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, with access to four seas. The work-permit system is built around a tie to the employer (for fixed-term permits), with the possibility of moving to indefinite status after 8 years of lawful employment or through the “turquoise card” for highly qualified specialists. Permanent residence is granted after 8 years of continuous residence, citizenship no earlier than 5 years, but by law the naturalisation decision is discretionary: meeting the formal conditions alone does not confer the right. Multiple citizenship is allowed. The family residence permit covers the sponsor's spouse and minor children, but not parents — neither one's own nor one's spouse's: only the general short-term residence permit on other grounds (for example, owning real estate) is available to them. Bringing in cats and dogs is possible subject to a mandatory laboratory rabies antibody titre test (no later than 30 days after vaccination and at least 3 months before entry) and a limit of 2 animals per passenger; official quarantine on arrival is not mentioned in the sources found. Six dog breeds, including the American Pit Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier, are banned from import and ownership. The country's largest cities differ markedly in character: Istanbul is the business and financial centre with the country's highest seismic hazard, Ankara is the administrative capital away from the sea, Izmir and Antalya are coastal cities with resort and tourism economies, and Bursa is an industrial automotive centre with the most affordable rent among the five largest cities.
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