Togo or Uganda
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| Togo | Uganda | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 10 years |
| Partner can work | yes | no |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | 30 days |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 283 · estimate | $ 612 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 30,6 | $ 19,7 |
| Life expectancy | 62.94 | 68.49 |
| Homicides/100k | — | 8.82 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 2.4 | 3.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Togo — 12, Uganda — 19. Types present in both: work, study and family. Uganda adds: investment, talent and repatriation.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Togo: fees range from 5,000 to 800,000 XOF. Routes with a published decision deadline: 12; the shortest is 5 days. Uganda: fees range from 100 to 3,000 USD. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 36,000 USD a year.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Uganda after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Uganda after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. A spouse’s right to work: Togo — yes, Uganda — no.
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.
Uganda in brief
Uganda is a landlocked East African country with one of the youngest population age structures in the world, which matters in practice for the labour market: most of it is younger than in most countries of the world. English is an official language of the country alongside Swahili. Permits to stay and work are issued as a single Entry Permit document under the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act, Cap. 313, with eight classes for different grounds — from civil service and investors in agriculture and mining to regulated professions, missionaries and people of independent means with no right to work; separately there are also the Special Pass, Student Pass, Dependant Pass and Certificate of Residence. The country belongs to the East African Community (EAC): per official data from the National Citizenship and Immigration Control, citizens of Kenya and Rwanda are exempt from Entry Permit fees, though they must still obtain it on the general terms, while citizens of Tanzania are subject to a separate full fee — the eased regime for EAC member states is not applied uniformly. The Certificate of Residence for long stay (10 years of continuous residence and a contribution to socio-economic development) grants permanent-residence status without losing one's own citizenship, while the same ten-year threshold leads to Ugandan citizenship under the separate Citizenship by Registration procedure; dual citizenship has been permitted since 21 August 2009. Importing dogs and cats requires an Import Permit and includes mandatory quarantine of 21–30 days. Malaria is endemic across the entire country. The guide's five cities are Kampala (the capital and largest business centre), Entebbe (the country's international airport and the shore of Lake Victoria), Gulu and Mbarara (the largest regional centres in the north and south-west), and Fort Portal (the gateway for inbound tourism to Kibale National Park and the Rwenzori Mountains).
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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.