Working in Cuba as a Foreigner
A foreigner does not apply to work in Cuba. A Cuban legal person applies on their behalf, obtains the work permit from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security before the foreigner enters, and then asks the migration directorate for temporary residence. The permit belongs to the relationship, not to the person: lose the link with the body that sponsors you and the classification is cancelled and you must leave. Temporary residence runs for as long as the activity requires and may not exceed five years, renewable. Two classifications escape the permit entirely - provisional and permanent residents need no authorisation at all and are governed by the Labour Code like anyone else. A contract of ninety days or less needs no residence card: the visa is enough.
At a glance
- Who applies
- The Cuban employer, not the foreigner
- Maximum temporary residence
- 5 years
Extendable beyond that only on a reasoned application by the sponsoring body.
- Renewal of temporary residence
- Every 5 years
- Contract of 90 days or less
- Visa only, no residence card
- Contract over 90 days
- Apply within 7 natural days of entry
- Decision on temporary residence
- 90 working days
- Notification after the file closes
- 3 working days
- Work permit needed by
- Temporary, real-estate and humanitarian residents
- Work permit not needed by
- Provisional and permanent residents
- Leaving after the permit ends
- Up to 30 natural days
- Identity card for a temporary resident, document tax
- CUP 250.00
Initial issue. Annex 4 prints the same figure in both of its columns.
- Absence that ends temporary residence
- 6 consecutive months
Requirements
- A Cuban body, enterprise, joint venture or wholly foreign-capital company that will employ you and will make the application
- A work permit issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, obtained before entry
- A current passport and the visa matching the subclassification applied for
- Proof of accommodation with a rental receipt
- Proof of payment of the document tax for the identity card
- A statement of the post the foreigner will hold, whom they replace or what post is being created
- Nothing of the above for provisional and permanent residents, who need no work authorisation
How the process runs
- Step 1
The Cuban employer obtains the work permit
Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
The senior officer of the state body, enterprise, joint venture, wholly foreign-capital company, special development zone user or foreign commercial representation applies to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. The permit must exist before the foreigner enters the country.
- Step 2
The employer applies for temporary residence
Unidad de Trámites de Asuntos Estatales, DIMEC
With the permit in hand, the employer applies to the DIMEC through the Unit for State Affairs of its Central Formalities Unit. The application names the post, whom the foreigner replaces or what post is being created, and carries the passport, visa, permit, proof of accommodation and proof of the document tax.
- Step 3
The file is instructed
Ninety working days from receipt. The Migration Authority may ask for a chart of the posts in the unit the foreigner is to join, showing where the post sits.
- Step 4
The decision is notified
Within three working days of the file closing, by resolution, to the official accredited by the applying body. A refused application is simply filed.
- Step 5
The foreigner appears in person
Identification, fingerprints and issue of the identity document. Registration in the Foreigners and Migration Register is required within ten natural days of entry.
In detail
The application is not yours to make
In most of the countries covered here a worker applies and an employer supports the application. Cuba inverts it. The regulation routes a temporary residence application through the Unit for State Affairs, presented by accredited officials of the sponsoring organisation, stamped and signed by its most senior officer or a first-level delegate. The foreigner's own contribution is a passport and a visa. The consequence runs the other way too: article 122 cancels the classification the moment the link with the sponsoring body is lost, and the foreigner must leave, with the body obliged to report the separation within seven working days.
Ninety days is the line between a visa and a residence card
The foreigners regulation draws a clean distinction that saves a short-term contractor the whole procedure. A temporary resident contracted for ninety days or less may stay documented with the visa alone. Over ninety days, the application to the Foreigners Authority has to be made within seven natural days of arrival. Beyond thirty days of any professional or employment activity, a work permit is needed in any event.
Two classifications are outside the permit system
Provisional and permanent residents need no work authorisation of any kind and are governed by the Labour Code like Cuban workers. That is the practical reward at the end of the permanent-residence path, and it is also what makes the employer-sponsored temporary route feel narrow by comparison: the temporary resident may not do anything outside what their subclassification authorises, and needs the migration directorate's permission to do anything else.
What we have not read
The Labour Code the law points at is Ley 189 of 2026, which the Gaceta indexes and which we have not read. Nothing here states its content. Nor have we read any resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security setting out how a work permit is applied for, what it costs or how long it takes.
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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«Los extranjeros, para realizar actividades profesionales o laborales de cualquier tipo, requieren contar con el permiso de trabajo concedido por el Ministerio del Trabajo y Seguridad Social, en los casos que la clasificación migratoria de residente que ostentan así lo establezca.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners, in order to carry on professional or employment activities of any kind, must hold the work permit granted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, in the cases where the resident migratory classification they hold so provides.
About this source
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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«Los requisitos para realizar actividades profesionales o laborales de cualquier tipo en el territorio nacional son: a) Los extranjeros con la clasificación migratoria de residente temporal y residente de inmobiliaria, requieren permiso de trabajo; y b) los extranjeros con la clasificación migratoria de residente humanitario deben contar con la aprobación previa que expide la Autoridad de Extranjería, según el caso, y el permiso de trabajo que otorga el Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social.»Our translation - not official
The requirements for carrying on professional or employment activities of any kind in the national territory are: a) foreigners with the migratory classification of temporary resident and real-estate resident require a work permit; and b) foreigners with the migratory classification of humanitarian resident must hold the prior approval issued by the Foreigners Authority, as the case may be, and the work permit granted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
About this source
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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«Los extranjeros con las clasificaciones migratorias de residentes provisionales y permanentes no requieren de autorización alguna y se rigen por el Código de Trabajo vigente, de acuerdo con lo que establece el Reglamento de la presente Ley.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners with the migratory classifications of provisional and permanent resident do not require any authorisation and are governed by the Labour Code in force, as established in the Regulation of this Law.
About this source
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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«Se clasifican como residentes temporales a los extranjeros que se admiten en la República de Cuba para realizar actividades de índole laboral, científica, académica, cooperación, cultural, deportiva, económica, mercantil, religiosa, así como cualquier otra actividad temporal lícita.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners admitted into the Republic of Cuba to carry on activities of an employment, scientific, academic, co-operation, cultural, sporting, economic, commercial or religious nature, as well as any other lawful temporary activity, are classified as temporary residents.
About this source
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 subclasificación de empleados comprende a los extranjeros admitidos como tal, a fin de laborar en empresas extranjeras, de capital totalmente extranjero o mo- dalidades de asociación económica internacional reconocidas en la legislación vigente, así como en otras que se aprueben o en proyectos vinculados a la economía nacional.»Our translation - not official
The subclassification of employees covers foreigners admitted as such in order to work in foreign enterprises, wholly foreign-capital enterprises or forms of international economic association recognised in the legislation in force, as well as in others that may be approved or in projects linked to the national economy.
About this source
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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«El período autorizado para los residentes temporales en el país está en correspondencia con la actividad que se le autorice realizar, el cual no puede exceder de cinco años.»Our translation - not official
The period authorised for temporary residents in the country corresponds to the activity they are authorised to carry on, and may not exceed five years.
About this source
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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«Los extranjeros interesados en obtener la clasificación migratoria de re- sidente temporal cumplen los requisitos siguientes: a) Tener pasaporte actualizado; y b) poseer la visa correspondiente a la subclasificación que solicita.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners wishing to obtain the migratory classification of temporary resident must meet the following requirements: a) hold an up-to-date passport; and b) hold the visa corresponding to the subclassification applied for.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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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«Las solicitudes se realizan por escrito o a través de las plataformas digitales corres- pondientes, y deben contener: a) Copia del pasaporte y visa del extranjero; b) Permiso de Trabajo para la subclasificación migratoria que se solicita; c) constancia de alojamiento, con comprobante de recibo de cobro por el arrenda- miento; y d) constancia de pago del impuesto sobre documentos establecido en la legislación vigente, para la confección del carné de identidad.»Our translation - not official
Applications are made in writing or through the relevant digital platforms, and must contain: a) a copy of the foreigner's passport and visa; b) the Work Permit for the migratory subclassification applied for; c) proof of accommodation, with a receipt for payment of the rent; and d) proof of payment of the document tax established in the legislation in force, for the making of the identity card.
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.
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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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«Para los trámites de residencia temporal en el territorio nacional se radica un expediente por cada solicitud, que se instruye y concluye en un término de no- venta días hábiles contados a partir de recibida la solicitud por la Unidad correspondiente.»Our translation - not official
For temporary residence formalities in the national territory a file is opened for each application, which is instructed and concluded within a term of ninety working days counted from the receipt of the application 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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«La respuesta a la solicitud de residencia temporal se notifica mediante resolución al funcionario acreditado por el organismo solicitante, en un término de tres días hábiles contados a partir de la conclusión del expediente.»Our translation - not official
The reply to the application for temporary residence is notified by resolution to the official accredited by the applying body, within a term of three working days counted from the conclusion of the file.
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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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«Cuando un extranjero Residente Temporal pierde el vínculo con el organismo que lo atiende antes del vencimiento de su residencia, se le cancela la clasifi- cación migratoria y debe abandonar el territorio nacional.»Our translation - not official
Where a Temporary Resident foreigner loses the link with the body that sponsors them before their residence expires, the migratory classification is cancelled and they must leave the national territory.
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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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«El residente temporal contratado por un período de hasta noventa días para realizar actividades profesionales o laborales de cualquier índole en el territorio nacional, puede permanecer en el país documentado solo con el visado correspondiente.»Our translation - not official
A temporary resident contracted for a period of up to ninety days to carry on professional or employment activities of any kind in the national territory may remain in the country documented with the visa alone.
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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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«Cuando la contratación para trabajar sea superior a los noventa días, se requiere que posterior al ingreso al país del extranjero, en un plazo de siete días naturales, se pre- sente la solicitud correspondiente ante la Autoridad de Extranjería con el objetivo de tramitar la clasificación migratoria por el término que se establece y obtener su documentación como residente.»Our translation - not official
Where the contract of employment is for more than ninety days, the relevant application must be made to the Foreigners Authority within seven natural days of the foreigner's entry into the country, in order to process the migratory classification for the term established and obtain their documentation as a resident.
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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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«Los máximos directivos de los sujetos a que se refiere el apartado 1 del Artí- culo 70 que tengan contratados a extranjeros residentes temporales informan a la DIMEC, con quince días naturales de antelación, el vencimiento o cancelación del permiso de trabajo del extranjero, a los efectos de fijar la fecha de su salida del país, en un plazo de hasta treinta días naturales, período en que debe liquidar sus deudas y disponer de sus bienes adquiridos en Cuba.»Our translation - not official
The senior officers of the bodies referred to in article 70(1) which employ temporary resident foreigners shall inform the DIMEC, fifteen natural days in advance, of the expiry or cancellation of the foreigner's work permit, so that the date of their departure from the country may be fixed, within a period of up to thirty natural days, in which they must settle their debts and dispose of the property they have acquired in Cuba.
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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 renovación de la residencia temporal y la de inmobiliaria de los ex- tranjeros es cada cinco años. 2. En el caso de la residencia de inmobiliaria se prorroga cada dos años.»Our translation - not official
The renewal of temporary residence and of real-estate residence of foreigners is every five years. In the case of real-estate residence it is extended every two years.
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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.
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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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«a) Solicitudes del carné de extranjero o de persona sin ciu- dadanía, residente temporal en la República de Cuba Entrega inicial 250.00 250.00»Our translation - not official
a) Applications for the identity card of a foreigner or stateless person, temporary resident in the Republic of Cuba. Initial issue 250.00 250.00
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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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Practical notes
The work-permit requirement and its exceptions are quoted from Ley 173 and Decreto 137/2025. We have not read the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's own procedure, so no fee, form or processing time for the permit itself is published here.
Ley 173 art. 47(2) sends provisional and permanent residents to "el Código de Trabajo vigente". The Gaceta indexes a Ley 189 "Código de Trabajo" of 2026 which we have not read, and nothing on this page states what it provides.
All of this comes into force on 1 November 2026, a hundred and eighty days after publication on 5 May 2026.
- 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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- issuesGaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba, Edición Especial No. 1 de 12 de enero de 2026 - Ley 113 Del Sistema Tributario (concordada)
Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba - Ministerio de Justicia · consolidated to 2026-01-12
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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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