Namibia or Togo
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
| Namibia | Togo | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | — |
| Partner can work | no | yes |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | difficult | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 662 · estimate | $ 283 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 29,2 | $ 30,6 |
| Life expectancy | 67.52 | 62.94 |
| Homicides/100k | 11.21 | — |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 4.1 | 2.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Namibia — 8, Togo — 12. Types present in both: work, study and family. Namibia adds: remote work.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Namibia: fees range from 600 to 20,000 NAD. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 2,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 7; the shortest is 7 days. Togo: fees range from 5,000 to 800,000 XOF. Routes with a published decision deadline: 12; the shortest is 5 days.
Beyond the first permit
Citizenship: Namibia after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. A spouse’s right to work: Togo — yes, Namibia — no.
Namibia in brief
Namibia regulates labour migration under the Immigration Control Act 7 of 1993: a short-term work visa runs from 1 day to 6 months with no right of renewal beyond that period within a calendar year, an Employment Permit runs from 6 months to 2 years and is tied to a specific employer and position, and the Permanent Residence Permit is issued by the Immigration Selection Board at its discretion, with no statutory minimum period of residence. A digital nomad visa has been in place since 2022, with an income threshold of $2,000 a month and up and a stay of up to 6 months with no renewal. Naturalisation is possible after 5 years of continuous residence, but years spent on fixed-term permits, including a work visa, do not count towards this period (art. 5(3)(b), Namibian Citizenship Act 14 of 1990), and the applicant must renounce their foreign citizenship (art. 5(1)(g)); citizens by birth and by descent are not subject to such renunciation or deprivation (art. 4(8), Namibian Constitution). Between Namibia and South Africa, a simplified pet movement regime operates within the Southern African Customs Union; for other countries, the general procedure applies with an import veterinary permit. The country faces a structural water shortage: the INFORM drought risk indicator is 9.4 out of 10 (2026), and access to basic water supply covers 86.5% of the population (World Bank, 2024). Income inequality is among the highest in the world, with a Gini index of 59.1 (World Bank, 2015 data).
Togo in brief
Togo is a country with weak institutions and moderate natural risks: political stability −0.81, government effectiveness −0.80, control of corruption −0.66 and rule of law −0.63 on the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5. Life expectancy is 62.94 years, health spending 59.6 dollars per person a year, basic water access reaches 64.8 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 stands at 34.33 micrograms per cubic metre. Road deaths run at 22.7 per 100,000. Natural risk is 2.4 out of 10 on INFORM overall, with flooding at 3.0. The immigration framework, by contrast, is transparent and published in full by the authority itself: law No. 2022-005 and its implementing decree sit in the “Lois & Règlements” section of the Directorate General of National Documentation, and the law appears as an issue of the Official Gazette. The residence card becomes compulsory after six months and, by the law's own definition, itself confers the right to paid or unpaid employment: the country has no separate work permit as a document. The spouses and descendants of a card holder live on the same conditions as the holder. A visa decision comes within five days at most, a residence card in 30–45 days. What to watch for: penalties for missing deadlines are published and high by local standards — a million CFA francs for staying more than six months in a year without applying for a card, half a million for working without a card or an entry authorisation. Neither the law nor the decree names any condition for the five-year privileged card, so the period to permanent status is empty in the data.
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This material is for reference and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Visa rules, tax thresholds and prices change. Before deciding anything, check the official sources and consult a licensed professional in the relevant country.