Togo or Zambia
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| Togo | Zambia | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 10 years |
| Partner can work | yes | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 283 · estimate | $ 369 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 30,6 | $ 26,5 |
| Life expectancy | 62.94 | 66.53 |
| Homicides/100k | — | 5.2 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Togo — 12, Zambia — 19. Types present in both: work, study and family. Zambia adds: investment, repatriation and retirement.
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. Zambia: fees range from 3,000 to 24,000 ZMW. Routes with no fee: 1. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 250,000 USD a month.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Zambia after 10 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Zambia after 10 years; the other country publishes no term.
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.
Zambia in brief
Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa whose economy relies on the mining and export of Copperbelt copper: according to the Zambia Statistics Agency, copper anode- and cathode-based goods are among the country's major export items. English is enshrined by Article 258(1) of the Constitution as the country's official language. Residence and work permits are issued by the Department of Immigration under the Immigration and Deportation Act No. 18 of 2010 in the form of twelve separate permit types - from the Employment Permit and Investor's Permit to the Spouse Permit, Study Permit and permanent residence (Residence Permit); the latter, under the general path, is granted after ten years of continuous work under an Employment Permit, with faster paths of three years under an Investor's Permit or five years under a Spouse Permit. Citizenship by registration (Article 37 of the 2016 Constitution and the Citizenship of Zambia Act, 2016) requires ten years of ordinarily resident residence under the general path, five years for those born in the country or descended from a citizen, and five years of marriage to a citizen; dual citizenship has been allowed under Article 39 of the Constitution since 5 January 2016. Importing dogs and cats requires an Import Permit from the Department of Veterinary Services and a veterinary certificate with a rabies vaccination; the law does not set a fixed mandatory quarantine period - the decision is made case by case. Malaria is endemic across most of the country. Electricity supply relies heavily on hydropower: according to a statement by the Minister of Energy to the National Assembly (5 July 2024), the El Niño-driven drought lowered water levels at the Kariba and Itezhi-Tezhi reservoirs so much that load-shedding began in March 2024, reaching up to 12 hours a day from May 2024. The five cities in the guide are Lusaka (capital and largest business centre), Kitwe and Ndola (the largest industrial centres of the Copperbelt), Livingstone (the city at Victoria Falls, the country's main tourist entry point) and Kabwe (the administrative centre of Central Province on the road between Lusaka and the Copperbelt).
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