Nigeria 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
| Nigeria | Togo | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | — |
| Partner can work | — | yes |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | difficult | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | $ 2 000 | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 863 · estimate | $ 283 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 18,6 | $ 30,6 |
| Life expectancy | 54.63 | 62.94 |
| Homicides/100k | 15.75 | — |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 4.7 | 2.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Nigeria — 60, Togo — 12. Types present in both: work, study and family. Nigeria adds: investment, talent, repatriation and retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Nigeria: fees range from 600 to 2,000 USD. Routes stating an income threshold: 6; the lowest is 250,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 50; the shortest is 2 days. Togo: fees range from 5,000 to 800,000 XOF. Routes with a published decision deadline: 12; the shortest is 5 days.
Nigeria in brief
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and its largest economy, with an English-speaking business environment and a prominent tech scene in Lagos. The work route is built around the employer rather than the person: the company obtains an expatriate quota from the Ministry of Interior and accepts immigration responsibility, the foreigner enters on a 90-day STR visa and, already inside the country, receives a CERPAC card valid for two years and renewable. The service publishes a processing standard for residence visas — 10 days from the interview and biometrics, including applications by spouses and other dependants. Permanent residence exists, but not through a period of residence: it is open to spouses of citizens, to investors bringing in capital above a set threshold, to highly skilled professionals and to certain retirees. Bringing in cats and dogs requires rabies antibody titration with the blood sample taken at least three months before departure, so preparation starts about six months ahead. The background figures: life expectancy 54.6 years (World Bank, 2024), homicides 15.75 per 100,000 (UNODC, 2023), average PM2.5 concentration 65.7 µg/m³ — almost thirteen times the WHO guideline (World Bank, 2023), and all four World Bank governance indicators deeply negative, including political stability at −2.0 on a scale from −2.5 to +2.5.
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.