No Passive-Income Residence, and What Stands in Its Place
Cuba has no residence category for someone living on income from abroad. The resident classifications are a closed list of five, and the eleven subclassifications of temporary residence are all occupational - technician, student, artist, athlete, journalist, religious worker, trader, employee, investor, aid worker, accompanying family. None is a rentista, a pensioner or a person of independent means. What does exist runs through wealth rather than income: a foreigner with a significant patrimony abroad or in a Cuban bank may apply for permanent residence directly, and where the accounts are abroad the regulation requires the availability of a Cuban account holding a six-figure sum. That is a capital test, it leads to permanent residence rather than to a renewable temporary permit, and it passes through a year of provisional residence first.
At a glance
- Passive-income route
- None
- Retiree or rentista subclassification
- None
- Nearest route
- Permanent residence on patrimony
Ley 171 art. 49(e) and art. 50(b).
- Cuban account required where the patrimony is abroad
- Not less than six figures
- Guarantee deposit
- USD 1 000
Non-refundable, per applicant and per accompanying foreigner.
- Provisional residence first
- 1 year
- Decision on provisional residence
- 180 working days
- Decision on permanent residence
- Up to 60 working days after the provisional year
- Permanent residence term
- 5 years, renewable
- Absence that costs you the status
- 1 consecutive year
Requirements
- There is no residence category based on passive or foreign income. Article 34 of Ley 171 lists five resident classifications and article 96 of the Regulation lists eleven subclassifications of the temporary one; none is an income or means route
- The nearest route is permanent residence on the ground of a significant patrimony abroad or in a Cuban banking institution
- Where the accounts are abroad, availability of an account in Cuba of not less than six figures must be shown
- A bank certificate and two years of cash flow on the accounts
- A non-refundable guarantee deposit of USD 1 000, or the same in euros or freely convertible currency, for the applicant and for each accompanying foreigner
- A year of provisional residence first, during which a lawful source of income, a regularly operated Cuban bank account and contracted medical insurance must be held
In detail
The closed lists are the evidence
Two lists settle this. Article 34 of the migration law names the five resident classifications - temporary, real-estate, humanitarian, provisional and permanent - and says a foreigner may hold only one at a time. Article 96 of the regulation then breaks the temporary one into eleven subclassifications, every one of them an activity: technicians and scientists, students and scholarship holders, professional artists, sportspeople, journalists, religious workers, traders, employees, investors and businesspeople, co-operation workers, and accompanying family. There is no entry for a person who simply has money coming in from abroad. A country that wanted such a route would have had to put it in one of those two lists, and it is in neither.
Wealth is a ground, income is not
What Cuba does recognise is capital. Article 49(e) lets a foreigner with a significant patrimony abroad or in a Cuban banking institution apply for permanent residence, and article 50 adds two more means-based grounds: occupational qualification plus economic solvency sufficient to secure settlement, and a patrimony allowing business or investment. The regulation puts a figure on only one of them, and it is an odd one: where the accounts are abroad, the applicant must show an account available in Cuba of not less than six figures. The instrument states the number of digits and not the currency, so no dollar or peso amount is published here.
There is no renewable temporary permit at the end of this
Where other countries give a rentista a one-year or two-year card and renew it, Cuba's means-based grounds lead to permanent residence and nothing else. The path runs through provisional residence, which is granted for one year and is a condition of the permanent classification rather than a status in its own right; during that year the person must show a lawful source of income, a Cuban bank account in regular use, contracted medical insurance, and social insertion in the community. If permanent residence is then refused, they must leave and cannot apply again for two years.
Country-level policy
On 5 May 2026 the Gaceta Oficial published, in a single ordinary edition, three laws and three subordinate instruments that replace Cuban migration, foreigners and citizenship law entirely: Ley 171 de Migración, Ley 172 de Ciudadanía, Ley 173 de Extranjería, their two regulations and the Citizenship Register regulation. Every one of them states that it enters into force one hundred and eighty days after publication, which is 1 November 2026. Until that day the law in force is Ley 1312 of 1976 as amended, Ley 1313 of 1976 and Decreto-Ley 352 of 2017, all of which the new laws repeal. This is not an inference: a decree-law of April 2026 says in its own recitals that Ley 1312 is still in application and that Ley 171's commencement is a hundred and eighty days away, which is why it had to legislate separately.
Cuba publishes in a single official gazette and an instrument carries the gazette's identifier as part of its name: GOC-2026-290-O39 is the Migration Law, and the O39 is edition thirty-nine of the ordinary series. There are three series. An edición ordinaria is the regular run; an edición extraordinaria is used when something cannot wait, and the two series number separately, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 both appeared on 5 May 2026. The third series is what makes consolidated Cuban law readable at all: an edición especial reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada, with the amendments worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. That is where a consolidation date comes from here - the day the special edition was published - and never from the name of the edition.
Cuban migration law has a concept with no equivalent in the other countries covered here, and almost every rule about foreigners touches it. Effective migratory residence is the condition of having accumulated, over the preceding year, most of your time in the national territory; the migration directorate determines it on its own motion at more than a hundred and eighty natural days. Someone short of that can apply to have it recognised instead, on more than a hundred and twenty days of physical presence plus other acts showing an intention to live there - a Cuban spouse, paid work, an investment, a home, a regularly operated Cuban bank account, tax compliance. It decides whether a Cuban spouse can support a residence application, whether five years of residence count towards permanent residence, whether permanent residence survives, and who the character references for naturalisation may be.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«Los extranjeros comprendidos en la categoría migratoria de residente se clasifican en: a) Residente temporal; b) residente de inmobiliaria; c) residente humanitario; d) residente provisional; y e) residente permanente.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners within the resident migratory category are classified as: a) temporary resident; b) real-estate resident; c) humanitarian resident; d) provisional resident; and e) permanent resident.
The five resident classifications are a closed list. A foreigner may hold only one at a time.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Para los extranjeros comprendidos en la categoría migratoria de residen- tes, se establecen las clasificaciones y subclasificaciones siguientes: 1. Residente Temporal: a) Técnicos y científicos;»Our translation - not official
For foreigners within the resident migratory category the following classifications and subclassifications are established: 1. Temporary Resident: a) technicians and scientists;
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«b) estudiantes y becarios extranjeros; c) artistas de profesión; d) deportistas, auxiliares de equipos de deportes e integrantes de delegaciones de- portivas; e) periodistas, corresponsales, representantes de la prensa, cine, televisión y otros medios de difusión; f) religiosos y representantes de cualquier culto, religión o secta religiosa; g) comerciantes, representantes y los que desempeñan cargos de confianza; h) empleados; i) inversionistas y hombres de negocios; j) cooperantes; y k) familiar acompañante.»Our translation - not official
b) foreign students and scholarship holders; c) professional artists; d) sportspeople, sports-team support staff and members of sporting delegations; e) journalists, correspondents, representatives of the press, cinema, television and other media; f) religious persons and representatives of any cult, religion or religious sect; g) traders, representatives and persons in positions of trust; h) employees; i) investors and businesspeople; j) development co-operation workers; and k) accompanying family member.
The eleven subclassifications of temporary residence, printed on the next page of the gazette and quoted separately so the quotation does not run through the page furniture.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Pueden solicitar la clasificación migratoria de residente permanente los extranjeros que se encuentren en alguno de los supuestos siguientes: a) Tener constituida una familia a partir de un matrimonio o unión de hecho afectiva con instrumentación notarial o reconocimiento judicial y su inscripción registral, con ciudadana o ciudadano cubano que tenga residencia efectiva en el país; incluye a sus hijos e hijas y nietos y nietas menores de edad, ambos de padres y madres extranjeras, que formen parte del núcleo familiar del interesado; b) ser padres o madres de ciudadano cubano por nacimiento con residencia efectiva en el país; c) los que hayan residido en Cuba durante más de cinco años bajo alguna de las clasi- ficaciones migratorias de residente y cuenten con residencia efectiva migratoria al momento de la solicitud; d) los extranjeros que acrediten, mediante titulación y experticia, una preparación pro- fesional superior o se conozca que gozan de prestigio internacional en la esfera de la ciencia, el deporte, la cultura, las artes y los que por su vinculación con las funciones de los órganos del Estado u organismos de la Administración Central del Estado lo avalan; y e) los extranjeros que dispongan de un importante patrimonio en el exterior o en una institución bancaria cubana.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners in any of the following situations may apply for the migratory classification of permanent resident: a) having a family constituted by marriage or an affective de facto union recorded before a notary or recognised by a court and registered, with a Cuban citizen in effective residence in the country, including their minor children and grandchildren, both of foreign parents, forming part of the applicant's family nucleus; b) being the parent of a Cuban citizen by birth in effective residence in the country; c) those who have resided in Cuba for more than five years under any of the resident migratory classifications and hold effective migratory residence at the time of application; d) foreigners who prove, by qualification and expertise, higher professional training, or who are known to enjoy international standing in science, sport, culture or the arts, and those endorsed by their links with the functions of organs of the State or bodies of the Central State Administration; and e) foreigners who have a significant patrimony abroad or in a Cuban banking institution.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Pueden optar, además, por la clasificación migratoria de residente permanente: a) Los extranjeros o familias extranjeras con calificación laboral y solvencia económi- ca que les permita garantizar su asentamiento en el país; y b) los extranjeros que acrediten contar con un patrimonio que les permita emprender negocios o realizar inversiones en proyectos o prioridades del desarrollo del país, o que puedan estar vinculados a sectores económicos estatales o no estatales.»Our translation - not official
The following may also opt for the migratory classification of permanent resident: a) foreigners or foreign families with occupational qualifications and economic means allowing them to secure their settlement in the country; and b) foreigners who show they have a patrimony allowing them to undertake businesses or make investments in projects or priorities of the country's development, or who may be linked to state or non-state economic sectors.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Para acompañar la solicitud amparada en el Artículo 49, inciso e) de la Ley de Migración, el extranjero interesado debe presentar las certificación expedida por una sucursal bancaria donde posea sus cuentas, así como el flujo de caja de estas en el período de dos años anteriores a la solicitud. 2. Cuando las cuentas bancarias sean en el extranjero, el solicitante debe acreditar la disponibilidad de una cuenta en el país con un monto no inferior a seis dígitos.»Our translation - not official
To accompany an application under article 49(e) of the Migration Law the foreigner concerned must present the certificate issued by a bank branch where they hold their accounts, together with the cash flow of those accounts for the two years preceding the application. Where the bank accounts are abroad, the applicant must show the availability of an account in the country of not less than six figures.
The regulation says six figures and not a currency. It does not state which currency the account is in. Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«En los supuestos comprendidos en el Artículo 50 de la Ley de Migra- ción, los extranjeros deben acompañar a la solicitud los documentos siguientes: a) Certificación de titulación profesional o laboral emitida, que avale su calificación para trabajar; b) certificación de matrimonio y de nacimiento de los padres e hijos que integran el núcleo familiar, en el caso de las familias; c) certificación del banco o institución financiera extranjera o cubana donde posea su patrimonio; y d) plan de negocios o inversiones a realizar en el territorio nacional, previamente apro- bado por el organismo patrocinador.»Our translation - not official
In the situations covered by article 50 of the Migration Law, foreigners must accompany the application with the following documents: a) a certificate of professional or occupational qualification attesting their fitness to work; b) marriage and birth certificates of the parents and children making up the family nucleus, in the case of families; c) a certificate from the foreign or Cuban bank or financial institution where they hold their patrimony; and d) a business or investment plan to be carried out in the national territory, previously approved by the sponsoring body.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«realizar un depósito en garantía en una sucursal bancaria de la República de Cuba, ascendente a mil (1000) dólares estadounidenses, euros o moneda libremente con- vertible, no reembolsable, por el solicitante y cada uno de sus acompañantes extran- jeros, como evidencia de que cuenta con solvencia económica»Our translation - not official
make a non-refundable guarantee deposit at a bank branch in the Republic of Cuba amounting to one thousand (1000) United States dollars, euros or freely convertible currency, by the applicant and each of their accompanying foreigners, as evidence that they have economic means
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«tener una fuente de ingresos financieros lícita que le permita sostener sus gastos promedios de residencia en el país; d) poseer una cuenta bancaria en el país que opere con regularidad; e) poseer seguro médico contratado;»Our translation - not official
have a lawful source of financial income allowing them to meet their average costs of residing in the country; d) hold a bank account in the country operated regularly; e) hold contracted medical insurance;
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Para los trámites de la clasificación migratoria de Residente Perma- nente se radica un expediente por cada solicitud, el cual se instruye y concluye en un término de ciento ochenta días hábiles contados a partir de recibida esta por la Unidad correspondiente.»Our translation - not official
For the processing of the migratory classification of Permanent Resident a file is opened for each application, which is instructed and concluded within a term of one hundred and eighty working days counted from its receipt by the relevant Unit.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
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Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Transcurrido el término de un año de haber sido aprobada la Residencia Provisional, la Autoridad Migratoria actuante notifica al interesado sobre la aprobación o no de la Residencia Permanente, mediante resolución, en un plazo de hasta sesenta días hábiles.»Our translation - not official
Once the term of one year from the approval of Provisional Residence has elapsed, the acting Migration Authority notifies the applicant of the approval or refusal of Permanent Residence, by resolution, within a period of up to sixty working days.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«La clasificación migratoria de Residente Permanente se aprueba por un plazo de cinco años, prorrogables de forma sucesiva por el mismo término hasta cum- plir los sesenta años de edad, que se prorroga indefinidamente, siempre que el interesado mantenga las condiciones previstas en la Ley de Migración para su otorgamiento.»Our translation - not official
The migratory classification of Permanent Resident is approved for a term of five years, successively renewable for the same term until the age of sixty, from when it is renewed indefinitely, provided the person concerned continues to meet the conditions laid down in the Migration Law for its grant.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«La categoría migratoria de residente se pierde de oficio cuando el extran- jero se ausenta del país por tiempo superior a seis meses consecutivos, excepto la clasi- ficación migratoria de residente permanente, que tiene el término de un año consecutivo.»Our translation - not official
The resident migratory category is lost of the authority's own motion where the foreigner is absent from the country for more than six consecutive months, except for the migratory classification of permanent resident, for which the term is one consecutive year.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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Practical notes
The statement that no passive-income or retirement route exists rests on two closed lists read in full: article 34 of Ley 171 and article 96 of Decreto 136/2025. Both were read from the Gaceta's own PDF of edition Ordinaria 39 of 5 May 2026, whose article numbering runs without gaps, so the lists are complete as published. It is not a claim that no ministerial resolution has since created something.
The six-figure requirement is written as a number of digits rather than an amount, and the regulation does not say in which currency. We publish the rule and not an amount.
Ley 171 and Decreto 136/2025 come into force on 1 November 2026. Until then the law is Ley 1312 of 1976, which the Gaceta Oficial does not publish in any edition we could read.
- issuesGaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba, Edición Ordinaria No. 39 de 5 de mayo de 2026
Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba - Ministerio de Justicia
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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