Paraguay or Venezuela
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| Paraguay | Venezuela | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 3 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | no trouble |
| Pet limit | 5 | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 687 · estimate | $ 784 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 22,9 | $ 33,9 |
| Life expectancy | 73.98 | 72.67 |
| Homicides/100k | 6.88 | 13.81 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 2.6 | 5.9 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Paraguay — 11, Venezuela — 15. Types present in both: family and investment. Venezuela adds: work and study.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Paraguay: fees range from 585,385 to 2,926,925 PYG. Routes with no fee: 2. Venezuela: the fee is 50 USD wherever it is published. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 1,200 USD a month.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Paraguay after 2 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Paraguay after 3 years; the other country publishes no term.
Paraguay in brief
Paraguay stands out for two things. The first is nature: earthquakes 0.1 out of 10, cyclones 0.0, an overall risk of 2.6 on the INFORM scale. That is one of the calmest profiles in this guide; what remains is river flooding and heat. The second is how residence is built: the temporary status under law No. 6984/2022 carries the right to work and study from the moment the application is filed, becomes permanent after two years, and three years after that opens the way to citizenship with no language exam. Count the whole chain, though: about five years from arrival, not three. The main constraint is that citizenship here replaces the old one rather than adding to it — multiple nationality is allowed only by international treaty, and a naturalised Paraguayan loses the passport on voluntarily acquiring another. Control of corruption at −1.02, among the worst in the region, also deserves weight.
Venezuela in brief
Venezuela has the lowest rule-of-law score in this set and a high seismic risk. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, rule of law stands at −2.20, political stability at −1.74, control of corruption at −1.59 and government effectiveness at −1.47. Life expectancy is 72.67 years, health spending 185.99 dollars per person per year, basic access to water reaches 93.33 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 concentration is 19.2 micrograms per cubic metre. Homicides run at 13.81 per 100,000 and road deaths at 13.2 per 100,000. Overall natural risk is 5.9 out of 10 on INFORM, and it is varied: earthquakes at 8.1 are among the highest figures in this set, coastal risks 6.7, floods 5.7, cyclones 5.6, tsunami 5.4, while droughts sit at just 1.9. The immigration system is split between two authorities: the visa is issued by a consulate abroad, while status inside the country is administered by SAIME. Statuses divide into transients, carrying letter codes by ground of stay — work, private income, family, study, religion — and residents. The work category is arranged so that the work authorisation is issued by the labour ministry rather than the migration service. The private-income category names an income threshold: the equivalent of 1,200 US dollars a month. The family category is unusually broad: the status covers a spouse, minor children, parents and parents-in-law. What this data does not contain, and why: neither SAIME nor the foreign ministry publishes statutory processing times or fees — the ministry's visa page refers applicants to the specific consulate for the fee. The qualifying period for permanent status is set by the Aliens and Migration Act, whose text is on no accessible official platform, so the number of years is left empty even though permanent status itself exists. The population of Caracas is not given: the official statistics institute does not respond from the checking machine, and the capital district cannot be mixed with an agglomeration spanning two federal subjects.
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