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Oman or State of Palestine

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

Oman and State of Palestine across the reference rows
OmanState of Palestine
Salary in IT——
Citizenship15 years—
Partner can work——
Parentsdifficult—
Petsdifficult—
Pet limitno limitno limit
Quarantine——
Residence permit fee——
Rent, 2 bedrooms$ 799 · estimate—
Basket$ 29,9$ 38,0
Life expectancy80.2569.21
Homicides/100k0.140.27
Natural hazards, 0–104.81.6

How the two sets of routes differ

Long-stay routes in this reference: Oman — 25, State of Palestine — 7. Oman adds: work, study, family, investment and talent. State of Palestine adds: repatriation.

Fees, thresholds and deadlines

Oman: fees range from 10 to 500 OMR. Routes with no fee: 3. Routes with a published decision deadline: 14; the shortest is 1 days. State of Palestine: fees range from 5 to 40 JOD.

Beyond the first permit

Citizenship: Oman after 15 years; the other country publishes no term.

Oman in brief

Oman is built as a country for a long stint of work rather than for settling: there is no permanent residence at all, and the most on offer is the investor residence permit of 5 or 10 years, relaunched in August 2025, starting at 250,000 Omani rials. It does, however, let you bring a spouse, children and parents with no limit on age or number, which is rare in this part of the guide. Citizenship remains a distant prospect: the 2025 law cut the period from 20 years to 15, but it requires fluent Arabic with reading and writing, renunciation of the previous passport, and allows 36 months for a decision. The government's own service page still describes the old 20-year rule — a discrepancy worth keeping in mind. The country's strengths are measurable: homicide at 0.14 per 100,000, control of corruption at +0.51, life expectancy of 80.25 years and no personal income tax. Against that: heat above +45, desert dust in the air, cyclones on the coast and a difficult process for bringing pets.

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