Mozambique or Tanzania
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
| Mozambique | Tanzania | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | 8 years |
| Partner can work | — | no |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 731 · estimate | $ 729 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 32,2 | $ 23,0 |
| Life expectancy | 63.8 | 67.21 |
| Homicides/100k | 3.59 | 3.3 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 5.2 | 4.1 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Mozambique — 18, Tanzania — 28. Types present in both: work, study, family and investment. Tanzania adds: talent and 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. Tanzania: fees range from 100 to 3,000 USD. Routes with no fee: 2. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 100,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 24; the shortest is 5 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Mozambique after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Mozambique after 5 years, Tanzania after 8 years. Mozambique allows a second citizenship, Tanzania does not.
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.
Tanzania in brief
Tanzania splits the right to reside in the country and the right to work between two authorities: the Immigration Service issues residence permits in three classes (A — investors and the self-employed, B — employees under a specific job offer, C — other grounds) under the Immigration Act, 1995, while the Labour Commissioner under the ministry responsible for employment issues a separate work permit in one of five classes (A–E, for investors, holders of in-demand professions, other professions, religious/charitable activity, and refugees) under the Non-Citizens (Employment Regulation) Act, 2015; legal paid employment requires both documents at once. Residence permits are capped by default at five years total (three years plus a renewal of up to two), and no separate permanent-residence status has been established between this term and citizenship — the only exception found covers a narrow category of major investors after 10 years of residence. Naturalisation requires practically 8 years of residence (the year immediately before filing plus at least 7 of the preceding 10 years), knowledge of Swahili or English, and renunciation of prior citizenship: dual citizenship is not permitted by law. Zanzibar is an autonomous part of the Union Republic: the law explicitly provides for additional entry and residence rules there, set with the consent of the President of Zanzibar, separate from the mainland's. The guide's five cities reflect both the largest population centres (Dar es Salaam — the country's commercial and technology centre, Mwanza — the second-largest city on Lake Victoria), the official capital, Dodoma, and two key inbound tourism destinations — Arusha (the gateway to the Serengeti and Kilimanjaro) and Zanzibar City with Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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