Mozambique or Eswatini
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| Mozambique | Eswatini | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | no |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 731 · estimate | $ 341 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 32,2 | $ 21,1 |
| Life expectancy | 63.8 | 64.26 |
| Homicides/100k | 3.59 | 13.68 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 5.2 | 1.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Mozambique — 18, Eswatini — 18. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Eswatini adds: retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Mozambique: not a single route publishes its fee. Routes with a published decision deadline: 7; the shortest is 5 days. Eswatini: fees range from 600 to 6,000 SZL. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 5,000 SZL a year.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: both after 10 years. Citizenship: Mozambique after 5 years; the other country publishes no term.
Mozambique in brief
Mozambique is a Portuguese-speaking country in south-east Africa with a coastline on the Indian Ocean; the official language is Portuguese. Land is state-owned: neither the country's own citizens nor foreigners have ownership of land, only the right to use and develop it (DUAT), granted by the state. Malaria is widespread across most of the territory year-round. Coastal areas, including Beira, are regularly hit by tropical cyclones during the rainy season (December–March) — in March 2019 Cyclone Idai destroyed a significant part of Beira. Large offshore natural gas fields are being developed in the north of the country (Cabo Delgado province, Palma district), and the same province has been the site of an armed conflict since 2017: as of early August 2026 the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) advises against all travel to Cabo Delgado province except the town of Palma and the area around Pemba and Afungi, to which it advises against all but essential travel.
Eswatini in brief
Eswatini runs to extremes in both directions. **Unemployment at 34.2 percent is the highest in this guide**, youth unemployment at 54.33 is third highest, and the Gini coefficient of 54.6 is the third highest figure — though it dates from 2016 and is flagged as stale. And at the same time **natural threats here are almost absent**: overall hazard is 1.8 out of 10 on INFORM, the seventh lowest among 168 countries — there is no sea, so no coastal hazard and no tsunami at all, earthquakes are 0.1, flooding 1.8, cyclones 0.2, and only drought at 4.7 is appreciable. Life expectancy is 64.26 years, health spending 296.05 dollars per person per year, water access reaches 80.37 percent of the population, and PM2.5 stands at 16.75 micrograms per cubic metre. Homicides run at 13.68 per 100,000 and road deaths at 24.7. On the World Bank scale, control of corruption is −0.79, rule of law −0.86, government effectiveness −0.78 and political stability −0.73 — appreciably better than most of its neighbours in this part of the guide. A one-bedroom in Manzini rents for 134 euros a month, among the lowest in this guide. The immigration framework is described by three Ministry of Home Affairs documents, and the ministry publishes all three itself: the Act of 1982, the Regulations of 1987 and the service charter. The Act sets ten classes of entry permit, A to J, and nine of the "useful" classes carry the condition "of benefit to the country" written into their very definition. The employer must confirm that the vacancy was advertised at full page, and during the assessment the localization department checks that the skill is not available inside the country. The charter prints the standard step by step: up to thirty minutes to lodge the documents, up to three days for vetting by the police and the localization department, one day for the committee, one day to issue the outcome — about five days for a temporary permit. For a visa: five minutes to receive it, two days for police vetting, one day for approval. Settlement is class J, and the road to it is unusual: ten years of continuous residence AND a completed "Khonta" under Swazi customary law — the act of pledging allegiance to a chief — AND proof that the person applied for citizenship and was not refused. A class J holder, like the class I person of independent means, loses the permit on taking up any employment, paid or unpaid. Family runs through the dependant's pass, which a citizen of the country may also request; the pass expires thirty days after the dependant takes up employment. What is not in this data: the processing time for a citizenship application — the charter states outright that the Citizenship Board determines it after going through each application. The procedure for bringing in cats and dogs is described neither by a national source nor by other countries' veterinary authorities. City populations are not given: no official source separating the city from the region could be found.
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