Nepal or Tajikistan
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
| Nepal | Tajikistan | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 15 years | 5 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | difficult | — |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 254 · estimate | $ 671 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 15,8 | $ 25,1 |
| Life expectancy | 70.64 | 71.93 |
| Homicides/100k | 2.13 | 0.89 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 5.1 | 4.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Nepal — 22, Tajikistan — 23. Types present in both: work, study, family, investment and repatriation. Nepal adds: talent and retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Nepal: fees range from 10 to 700 USD. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes stating an income threshold: 5; the lowest is 3,000 USD a year. Routes with a published decision deadline: 22; the shortest is 1 days. Tajikistan: fees range from 20 to 100 USD. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 500,000 USD a month. Routes with a published decision deadline: 23; the shortest is 1 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Tajikistan after six months; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Nepal after 15 years, Tajikistan after 5 years. Neither recognises a second citizenship.
Nepal in brief
Nepal is a South Asian country outside the EU and outside the Gulf, with a narrow system of long-stay visas: the work visa is issued under the general “non-tourist visa” category and requires a separate permit from the Government of Nepal for paid employment (via the Department of Labour), issued for no more than 1 year at a time; the business visa for investors — up to 5 years; the Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) visa — up to 10 years, but available only to people of Nepali origin or citizens of Nepal who have long lived abroad; the residential visa for investors of USD 100,000 or more, or for persons of international standing, is issued by the Department of Immigration for the first year and then renewed annually, without automatically becoming a permanent status — Nepali law has no permanent residence permit in the European sense. Naturalisation to Nepali citizenship is available in practice almost exclusively to persons with a special contribution to the country's development, requires 15 years of residence, knowledge of Nepali or another language used in Nepal, and renunciation of prior citizenship; dual citizenship is not permitted in any form. An expedited route to citizenship through marriage exists only for foreign wives of Nepali citizens, not for foreign husbands of Nepali female citizens. Seismic hazard here is not a technical detail but a systemic fact: the country lies in the collision zone of the Indian and Eurasian plates, INFORM rates the earthquake component at 9.8 out of 10, and the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake (M7.8) claimed almost 9,000 lives and damaged a significant part of the historic building stock of the Kathmandu Valley. At the same time, the country holds several UNESCO World Heritage sites (the Kathmandu Valley, Lumbini — the birthplace of Buddha, Chitwan National Park), and the cost of rent and living is lower than the regional average.
Tajikistan in brief
Tajikistan is the cheapest country in this part of the guide: rent in Khujand is half that of the capital, and the capital itself is already low. Permanent residence is not tied to years of waiting — the law allows no more than a month for a decision on the application. Citizenship is formally available after five years of continuous residence, and a facilitated route applies for marriage to a citizen of the country lasting three years or more. The restrictions are significant. Dual citizenship is not allowed outside intergovernmental treaties, and a decision to grant citizenship can be revoked within five years of being made — this is an unusual rule and worth bearing in mind. Control of corruption at −1.22 and a seismic risk of 8.1 out of 10 are among the worst figures in the guide. One thing worth saying separately about what is not in this data: the language requirements for naturalisation and the rules for bringing in animals could not be confirmed against official sources, so they are left blank rather than filled in with paraphrases.
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