Working in Haiti: Two Permits, a Five Per Cent Cap and a Duty to Train Your Replacement
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Canada on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Canada to Haiti · Residency through work
Haiti separates the right to be in the country from the right to work in it, and the second is governed by the Labour Code rather than by the immigration law. A foreigner who works for an employer needs a permis d'emploi; a foreigner working on his own account needs a permis de travail. Both come from the Direction de la main-d'œuvre, neither can be granted for more than a year at a time, and renewal stops at five consecutive years. Two conditions make this one of the tightest work-permit regimes in the comparison. The permit may only be granted where no Haitian with the required competence or training can be recruited locally, and the foreign worker must undertake to train one or more Haitians to do the job, on pain of having the permit withdrawn. On top of that, article 315 caps foreign workers at five per cent of the staff of any establishment and requires seventy per cent of the total payroll to go to Haitian labour. The permis de séjour is a document in the work permit file, so the immigration permit comes first.
At a glance
- Maximum period of a work or employment permit
- One year
Article 306. Renewable at the Direction de la main-d'œuvre's appreciation up to five consecutive years.
- Ceiling on renewals
- Five consecutive years
Article 306.
- Permis de travail fee
- 1,000 gourdes
Article 309, for the self-employed permit.
- Permis d'emploi fee
- Half of one month's salary under the contract
Article 309. The charge is proportional to pay rather than fixed, so a senior hire pays many times what a junior one pays.
- Cap on foreign staff
- Five per cent of the personnel of any establishment
Article 315, whether the employer is Haitian or foreign. Seventy per cent of total payroll must go to Haitian labour.
- Penalty for working or employing without a permit
- A fine of 5,000 to 10,000 gourdes
Article 310, pronounced by the labour tribunal. On a repeat the penalty doubles and the tribunal may require the worker's residence permit to be withdrawn.
- Labour market test
- Required
Article 313: the permit may only be granted for an activity for which no Haitian with the required competence or professional training can be recruited locally.
Requirements
- A permis de séjour already held: it is one of the documents the work permit file must contain
- A passport and three identity photographs
- A certificate of good conduct from your country of origin or anywhere you have lived in the last five years
- A certificate from the labour inspectorate that you are not competing with Haitian workers of equal competence in the same trade, or an employment contract endorsed by the Direction du travail
- University qualifications, professional diplomas or a duly legalised certificate of technical competence
- An undertaking to train one or more Haitian workers in the task
- For the permis de travail: 1,000 gourdes. For the permis d'emploi: half of one month's salary under the contract
In detail
Which permit, and who issues it
The distinction Haitian law draws is between working for somebody and working for yourself. An employee needs a permis d'emploi; an independent worker needs a permis de travail. Both are issued by the Direction de la main-d'œuvre within the social affairs and labour ministry, not by the immigration directorate, and both are capped at one year with renewals stopping at five consecutive years. Nothing in the chapter converts either into a longer or permanent authorisation, so a foreigner who means to work in Haiti for more than five years has to look outside this chapter for a basis, and the exemptions in article 312 are where the Code puts one.
The test, and the training obligation
Article 313 does two things in one sentence. The permit may only be granted where no Haitian with the necessary competence or professional training can be recruited on the spot, which is a labour market test of the usual kind. Then it adds that the foreign worker must undertake to train one or more Haitian workers to do the job, and that failing to do so costs him the permit. The second half is rare. It makes the permit conditional on transferring the skill that justified it, and it is enforced by withdrawal rather than by a fine, which means the sanction falls on the worker's position rather than on the employer's pocket.
Two ceilings, counted differently
Article 315 limits foreign workers to five per cent of an establishment's personnel and separately requires that seventy per cent of the total wage bill go to Haitian labour. Those are different constraints and an employer can satisfy one while breaching the other. Five foreign specialists in a hundred-person firm are inside the headcount cap; if they are paid enough to take more than thirty per cent of the payroll, they are outside the wage one. The Code applies both whether the employer is Haitian or foreign.
Who does not need a permit at all
Article 312 lifts the whole requirement from five groups: holders of shares in new undertakings as defined by the decree of 13 March 1963; people of either sex married to a Haitian national who can show at least three years of uninterrupted residence in the country; people who have lived in the country for at least ten years, or who work for an employer bound to the State by a contract; members of the clergy and the staff of diplomatic missions accredited in Haiti; and the staff of international organisations. The third of those is the quiet one: ten years of residence removes the work permit requirement entirely, which is the nearest thing in Haitian law to a settled worker's right.
Country-level policy
A Haitian residence permit is not granted for twelve months from the day it is issued. It is granted for a fiscal year, 1 October to 30 September, which means a permit obtained in August expires six weeks later. Renewal is annual and the application must be accompanied by the slip attesting payment of income tax for the fiscal year just ended. The permit therefore sits downstream of the revenue directorate: a foreigner who has not settled with the Direction Générale des Impôts cannot complete the immigration file. The same coupling appears from the other end in the immigration law, where the exit visa a departing foreigner needs is issued only on a certificate from the revenue administration that he is square with the tax authorities. Dominica's record holds the same coupling at one end - an exit certificate required by its Income Tax Regulations - and no record here holds it at both.
On 17 September 2026 Le Moniteur published, as Special No. 47 of its 181st year, a decree of the Council of Ministers instituting a state of emergency over the departments of the Ouest, the Artibonite and the Centre for three months. The Ouest is the department that contains Port-au-Prince, and with it the Direction de l'Immigration et de l'Émigration on Avenue John Brown, where residence permits are applied for. The decree's recitals describe a multiform crisis producing a situation of extreme urgency, marked by increased violence from armed gangs and a worrying humanitarian situation threatening the existence of the population and the foundations of the Republic. An earlier decree to the same effect had been published on 2 June 2026, so this is a renewal rather than a first measure. What we hold of the decree is its opening: the copy we could read carries the gazette heading, the title and the recitals and stops before the operative articles, so we cannot say what powers it confers or what it suspends.
Haiti's official journal, Le Moniteur, is still publishing - its Special No. 47 of 17 September 2026 is in these records - but it has no reachable archive of its own, and the Secrétariat Général du Conseil des Ministres, which hosts the government's collection of laws, did not answer a single request from here. The consequence is specific rather than general. Four instruments between them decide most of what a person moving to Haiti needs to know, and none of them could be read. The decree-law of 26 December 1978 on immigration and emigration is the one the immigration directorate itself cites by article number for the residence permit, and the one the law of 2002 names as imposing that permit at its article 30. The decree of 6 November 1984 on Haitian nationality is where the Constitution has pointed since 2011 for the conditions of naturalisation. The Code Fiscal enacted by decree of 20 January 2023 brings the whole tax code together and is published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance as a 244-page image whose only machine-readable text is a watermark reading "ne pas reproduire". And the decree of 13 March 1963 defines which new undertakings give a foreign shareholder an exemption from the work permit.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Canada
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Article 306. Aucun étranger ne peut exercer un métier ou une profession dans un but
lucratif et de quelque nature que ce soit, comme travailleur indépendant ou comme
salarié, s'il n'est muni préalablement d'un permis de travail délivré par la Direction de
la main-d'œuvre dans les mêmes conditions stipulées dans le présent chapitre pour
l'obtention du permis d'emploi délivré aux travailleurs étrangers employés comme
salariés dans une entreprise.
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Pour être employé comme salarié dans une entreprise, tout travailleur étranger devra
obtenir au préalable de la Direction de la main-d'œuvre un permis d'emploi. Ce permis
ne pourra être accordé pour plus d'une année; il est renouvelable jusqu'à concurrence
de cinq années consécutives à l'appréciation de la Direction de la main-d'œuvre.»Our translation - not official
No foreigner may carry on a trade or profession for gain, of whatever nature, as an independent worker or as an employee, unless he has first obtained a work permit issued by the Directorate of Manpower on the same conditions as those laid down in this chapter for obtaining the employment permit issued to foreign workers employed as employees in an undertaking. To be employed as an employee in an undertaking, every foreign worker must first obtain an employment permit from the Directorate of Manpower. This permit may not be granted for more than one year; it is renewable up to five consecutive years at the appreciation of the Directorate of Manpower.
The quotation spans a page break in the edition we read, and carries the page furniture that sits in it, including the watermark of the site that produced the file.
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A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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«Article 307. Pour obtenir le permis de travail ou le permis d'emploi, le travailleur
étranger doit produire les documents suivants:
a) le passeport, le permis de séjour et trois photos d'identité;
b) un certificat de bonne vie et mœurs émanant de son pays d'origine ou de tout
endroit où il a résidé pendant les cinq dernières années;
c) un certificat du Service de l'inspection générale du travail attestant que le
travailleur étranger n'exerce pas un métier ou une profession en compétition avec des
travailleurs nationaux exerçant la même profession ou le même métier à compétence
égale ou un contrat de travail visé par la Direction du travail;
d) ses titres universitaires, ses diplômes d'aptitude professionnelle ou un certificat de
compétence technique dûment légalisé.»Our translation - not official
To obtain the work permit or the employment permit, the foreign worker must produce the following documents: (a) the passport, the residence permit and three identity photographs; (b) a certificate of good conduct from his country of origin or from anywhere he has resided during the last five years; (c) a certificate from the General Labour Inspection Service attesting that the foreign worker is not carrying on a trade or profession in competition with national workers carrying on the same profession or trade at equal competence, or an employment contract endorsed by the Directorate of Labour; (d) his university titles, his certificates of professional aptitude or a duly legalised certificate of technical competence.
Item (a) is why the immigration permit comes first: the residence permit is a document in the work permit file.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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«Article 309. Le permis de travail sera délivré ou renouvelé moyennant le paiement
d'une valeur de 1 000 gourdes.
Le permis d'emploi sera délivré ou renouvelé moyennant le paiement d'une valeur
équivalente à la moitié du salaire mensuel prévu au contrat de l'intéressé.»Our translation - not official
The work permit shall be issued or renewed against payment of a sum of 1,000 gourdes. The employment permit shall be issued or renewed against payment of a sum equal to half of the monthly salary provided for in the contract of the person concerned.
The employment permit is the only charge in this comparison set as a share of the applicant's own pay.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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«Article 313. Le permis de travail ou le permis d'emploi ne pourra être accordé au
travailleur étranger que s'il désire exercer une activité pour laquelle il n'est pas
possible de recruter sur place un travailleur haïtien ayant la compétence ou la
formation professionnelle requise. De plus, le travailleur étranger devra s'engager à
entraîner à cette tâche un ou plusieurs travailleurs haïtiens, sous peine de retrait de son
permis d'emploi ou de son permis de travail.»Our translation - not official
The work permit or the employment permit may only be granted to the foreign worker where he wishes to carry on an activity for which it is not possible to recruit locally a Haitian worker having the required competence or professional training. Furthermore, the foreign worker must undertake to train one or more Haitian workers in that task, on pain of withdrawal of his employment permit or his work permit.
A labour market test and a training obligation in one article, and the training obligation is enforced by withdrawal rather than by a fine.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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«Article 315. Dans tout établissement de travail, le nombre des travailleurs étrangers
ne devra pas excéder 5 pour cent du personnel, que l'employeur soit haïtien ou
étranger, et 70 pour cent du montant global des salaires devront être payés à la main-
d'œuvre haïtienne.»Our translation - not official
In every workplace the number of foreign workers may not exceed 5 per cent of the personnel, whether the employer is Haitian or foreign, and 70 per cent of the total amount of wages must be paid to Haitian labour.
Two separate ceilings, one on headcount and one on payroll. The payroll one bites hardest where the foreign staff are the best paid.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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«Article 310. Tout étranger qui exercera un métier ou une profession sans être muni du
permis de travail obligatoire et tout employeur qui utilisera les services d'un
travailleur étranger non muni du permis d'emploi ou dans un emploi ou un
établissement autre que celui mentionné dans le permis d'emploi seront punis d'une
amende de 5 000 à 10 000 gourdes à prononcer par le tribunal de travail sur requête
de la Direction du travail.
En cas de récidive, la peine sera doublée et le tribunal de travail pourra requérir le
retrait du permis de séjour du travailleur étranger.»Our translation - not official
Any foreigner who carries on a trade or profession without holding the compulsory work permit, and any employer who uses the services of a foreign worker not holding the employment permit or in a job or establishment other than the one named in the employment permit, shall be punished by a fine of 5,000 to 10,000 gourdes pronounced by the labour tribunal on application by the Directorate of Labour. On a repeat offence the penalty shall be doubled and the labour tribunal may require the withdrawal of the foreign worker's residence permit.
The immigration consequence is a labour court's to ask for, which is unusual: elsewhere in this comparison the immigration authority acts on its own motion.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
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Practical notes
This record rests on Chapter VI of Title V of the Code du travail - articles 306 to 315 - read in full, in the edition updating the Code to the decree of 24 February 1984 and the law of 5 June 2003. The edition we read is complete in that chapter and carries the watermark of haitijustice.com on every page; four articles elsewhere in it (426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510) are replaced by a bracketed summary in square brackets rather than printed, so it is an edition with editorial elisions and should not be used for a claim that the Code is silent on something.
Articles 341 to 356 are absent from the edition because the law of 5 June 2003 annulled them, which the edition says in a line of its own. That is a repeal and not a gap in the reading.
No CARICOM exemption appears in article 312 or anywhere else in the chapter. A Community national seeking work in Haiti is on the same footing as any other foreigner on the face of the Code, which matters because article 46 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas requires member states to eliminate work permits for approved categories of Community nationals.
The fees are the Code's own and have not been checked against what the Direction de la main-d'œuvre charges today; we found no published schedule from the directorate.
Article 307(a) makes the residence permit a document in the work permit file, so the two embassy descriptions of the permis de séjour procedure are carried here as well: in practice the immigration permit has to exist before the labour one can be applied for.
- reportsCode du travail - Décret du 24 février 1984 et Loi du 5 juin 2003 actualisant le Code du travail du 12 septembre 1961
HaitiDocs (edition watermarked www.haitijustice.com)
About this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- reportsCode du travail - Décret du 24 février 1984 et Loi du 5 juin 2003 actualisant le Code du travail du 12 septembre 1961
HaitiDocs (edition watermarked www.haitijustice.com)
About this source
A Haiti document archive holding about five thousand items - central bank circulars, customs statistics, electoral council decrees, and facsimiles of Le Moniteur going back to 1959. Used here because Haiti's own law collection at sgcm.gouv.ht would not answer a single request and Le Moniteur has no reachable archive of its own. What it serves for the instruments quoted here is the gazette's or the State Printing Office's own page image, so the artefact is the State's even though the host is not.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and must never be cited where a Haitian government host serves the same file. It does no amendment tracking, so nothing taken from it is evidence that a text is current - the 1959 immigration law quoted here is known to have been overtaken at least in part by a 1978 decree-law we could not obtain. Its catalogue metadata is not reliable: it dates the immigration law "8 juillet 1959" where the document's own title page says 8 December 1959, and it attributes the Labour Code to the justice ministry when the PDF carries haitijustice.com as a watermark on every page. That Labour Code edition also replaces four articles - 426, 483, 505 and 507 to 510 - with a bracketed editorial summary instead of their text, so it cannot support a claim that the Code is silent on something.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersVisas - Section consulaire, Ambassade d'Haïti au Canada
Ambassade d'Haïti au Canada
About this source
Haiti's mission in Ottawa, and the most useful live Haitian government source we found. Its consular page publishes the visa tariff, states that no prior visa is required of a Canadian citizen staying under ninety days, and reproduces in full the long-stay permit procedure of the Direction de l'Immigration et de l'Émigration, which it attributes to the DIE by name and ties to articles 31 to 34 of the décret-loi du 26 décembre 1978.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is a mission describing an instrument it does not publish. The article numbers it cites belong to a decree-law we have never read, so the figures on the page - the ninety-day courtesy stay, the fiscal-year permit, the bank attestation of 7,500 gourdes or US$200 - are the agency's account of the law and not the law's own words. Its ninety days also contradict the thirty days article 16 of the immigration law gives, and the page cannot settle which governs. It mentions that citizens of certain countries must meet conditions as to status in Canada to be exempted from the visitor's visa, and does not publish that list.
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- reportsInformation on Obtaining a Permis De Sejour
U.S. Embassy in Haiti
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The United States mission in Port-au-Prince, whose citizen-services page sets out the Direction de l'Immigration et de l'Émigration's residence permit procedure in English, with the fee table - 5,000 gourdes first issue, 2,500 renewal, 1,250 student - and an English version of article 1 of the Haitian law of 12 August 2002 on Haitians of origin.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: A foreign mission describing another state's procedure, and it says so itself: it believes the information accurate at the date of printing and warns that Haitian immigration requirements and procedures are often subject to variation without notice. It carries no date. Its fee figures trace to no instrument. It disagrees with Haiti's own mission on who needs the permit - three months and an age threshold of 21, against ninety days and no age threshold. And its English of article 1(g) of the 2002 law renders "3 ha 87, soit l'équivalent de trois (3) carreaux de terre" as "three (3) acres", about a ninth of the area, so it must not be cited for the content of a Haitian instrument.
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