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Where a treaty gives you residence if your passport is from Haiti

One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 2 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 30 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.

Where it changes for you
2
Where it does not
30
Blocs you are in
1

Where your nationality changes the answer

GuyanaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-06

Haitians: a Community national with no Community rights in Guyana

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Guyana draws the Skills Certificate line by who issued the certificate and then provides a statutory bridge across it. A certificate issued by Guyana's own Minister - a Schedule II Certificate - gets indefinite entry. A certificate issued by another qualifying State in that State's equivalent form gets six months, and since 2014 the holder may apply to the Minister to have it verified; if it complies with the requirements of a Schedule II Certificate the Minister tells the Chief Immigration Officer and the holder may then ask for indefinite stay. Both grants carry the right to work from day one. Separately, and unusually, Guyana implemented the CARICOM right of establishment: the Movement of Factors Act 2006 bears 1 January 2006 on its face, treats a Community national exercising the right as if he were a national of Guyana for the purposes of ten named Acts, and gives a statutory appeal to the Minister against any functionary who obstructs it. Both Acts are plugged into section 12(7A) of the Immigration Act, which tells the officer to admit the holder without a permit at all.

SurinameVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-06

Haitians: there is no schedule to be left out of, and the only list anyone publishes leaves them out

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Suriname draws the skills certificate line in a place none of the other eight countries draws it. Its Wet Bekwame Burgers van de Caraibische Gemeenschap of 2006 says nothing at all about how long anyone may enter or stay. What it regulates is recognition of status and what recognition does to the labour market: a national of another member state whose status is recognised shall not, notwithstanding any other law, be subject to a restriction on the right to enter the labour market to which a Surinamese national is not subject. Recognition takes one of two forms depending on where the certificate came from - the Minister of Labour issues one where the applicant has none from another member state, and authenticates the applicant's existing certificate where he has. That is the issuer distinction, but it decides the paperwork rather than the period, and the holder of another state's certificate already has labour-market access during the short stay while recognition is pending. Entry, duration and settlement are left entirely to the ordinary aliens law, and the six-month short stay a CARICOM national actually receives at the border comes from the aliens department rather than from any instrument. There is no schedule of qualifying states: article 3 leaves it to the Minister to announce which member states count, and we did not find the announcement. On the right of establishment there is no implementing Act at all - and under articles 105 and 106 of the Constitution Suriname may not need one, because treaty provisions that can bind everyone have binding force once published and displace any inconsistent statute.

Where the general rule applies to you unchanged

Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Haiti differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.

Antigua and Barbuda

Moving to Antigua and Barbuda Under the OECS or CARICOM

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time
OECS Protocol Member States in Schedule 1 Part C:
7, including Antigua and Barbuda
OECS member states in Schedule 1 Part B:
6, and Montserrat is not among them
Argentina

Mercosur Citizenship-Based Residency

Duration:
Up to 2 years, renewable
Entries and exits:
Multiple, unrestricted
Income test:
None
Barbados

CARICOM Movement into Barbados: the Skills Certificate, and the Protocol That Has No Statute

Period granted on entry with a qualifying certificate:
6 months
Work permit during those six months:
Not required
Who issues the certificate you present at the border:
A competent authority or a competent Minister of any Member State - including your own
Belize

CARICOM Free Movement into Belize

Provisional entry on arrival:
a period of six months
Decision on an application for indefinite stay:
within thirty working days of submission
Qualifying states in Schedule II:
Thirteen, before the 2026 deletions
Bolivia

Residency Under a Regional Treaty

Blocs Bolivia belongs to:
Andean Community and Mercosur, both as a full member
Temporary stage, either route:
2 years
Permanent stage:
Indefinite, applied for in the 90 days before the temporary permit expires
Brazil

Residency Under the Mercosur Residence Agreement

Temporary residence:
Up to two years
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Conversion to permanent residence:
Applied for in the 90 days before expiry
Chile

Mercosur Reciprocity Residency in Chile

Open to:
Nationals of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Associated states:
Not named by the Chilean migration service for this subcategory
Statutory hook:
Ley 21.325 art. 70 N° 13, reciprocity and treaties
Colombia

Mercosur Residency in Colombia

Costa Rica

No Central American Free Movement, and the Numbers Prove It

Regional residency route:
None
Is Costa Rica in the CA-4 free movement area?:
No
Entry group for Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize:
Second group - no visa, 30 days, extendable to 90
Cuba

No Treaty Route to Residence

Treaty-based residence category:
None
Effect of a visa-waiver agreement:
The visa requirement only
List of visa-waiver countries:
Not published in any instrument read
Dominica

Moving to Dominica Under the OECS, CARICOM or Full Free Movement

CARICOM skills certificate in Schedule II form:
Entry for an indefinite period
CARICOM skills certificate in the home state's equivalent form:
6 months
Qualifying CARICOM states in Schedule I:
13, including Dominica itself
Dominican Republic

No Free Movement: the Caribbean Country Outside the Caribbean Scheme

CARICOM membership:
Not a member
Treaty-based residence route:
None found
Nationality-based residence category:
None
Ecuador

Treaty Routes: Ecuador Runs Three of Them

Routes the ministry runs:
Mercosur Residence Agreement, Andean Migration Statute, and the Ecuador-Venezuela migration statute
Statutory basis:
Residente por convenio, a category of temporary residence in its own right
Means of support:
Governed by the treaty, not by the ministry's general rules
El Salvador

Central Americans: Free Movement on an Identity Card, and a Shorter Road to Everything Else

Countries in the group:
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Document needed to cross:
Identity card, not a passport
Air travel inside the group:
Also on an identity card, since 1 November 1997
Grenada

Moving to Grenada Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: period granted:
Indefinite
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
OECS Protocol: economic citizens excluded:
Yes, unless the Minister approves the programme
Guatemala

The Central American Route Into Guatemala

Temporary residence needed first:
1 year
Everyone else:
5 years
The test is:
Place of birth, not nationality
Honduras

CA-4 Moves You Around the Region; It Does Not Let You Settle

Member states:
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Founding instrument:
Convenio de Creación de la Visa Única Centroamericana, signed 30 June 2005, in force 31 August 2005
Who the manual regulates:
People who are not nationals of the four states
Jamaica

Moving to Jamaica from the Caribbean Community

Entry under section 3:
Indefinite period
Entry under section 4:
Not exceeding six months
What distinguishes them in the Act:
Nothing - the conditions are identical
Mexico

Regional and Treaty Routes to Residence

A bloc-wide residence agreement:
None
Mobility instruments:
Recognised, and they lead to a temporary residence or student visa only
Quota:
Each instrument carries its own, and the consulate must check it is not exhausted
Nicaragua

CA-4 and Central American Residence in Nicaragua

What the Single Central American Visa governs:
Third-country nationals, not the four countries' own nationals
What it confers:
Movement. Expressly not residence
Direct permanent residence for Central Americans:
Available, subject to reciprocity
Panama

Panama Has No Bloc Residence Route

Bloc residence route:
None
Nationality-based routes that do exist:
2
Mercosur Residence Agreement:
Not applied by Panama
Paraguay

Mercosur Residency in Paraguay

Countries covered:
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador
Term of the Mercosur temporary residency:
Two years, not renewable
Window to convert to permanent:
The 90 days before the temporary card expires
Peru

Residency Under International Agreements

Temporary stage:
2 years, not extendable
Application window for the indefinite stage:
The 90 days before the temporary residence expires
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Moving to Saint Kitts and Nevis Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Permit to enter and remain for indefinite duration
OECS Protocol Member States:
7, including Saint Kitts and Nevis
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
Saint Lucia

Eastern Caribbean and Caribbean Community rights in Saint Lucia

Economic Union Treaty and Protocol in force:
18 August 2014
Work permit exemption for Protocol citizens:
Same day
Skills certificate in the Saint Lucian form:
Indefinite entry
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Moving to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Under CARICOM, the OECS or Full Free Movement

Full free movement: in force since:
1 October 2025
Full free movement: what Parliament passed:
Two Acts and two orders, all on 29 September 2025
Full free movement: entry status granted:
Indefinite stay, stamped in the passport
The Bahamas

CARICOM and The Bahamas: a Member State With No Free Movement Law At All

Caribbean Community membership:
Yes, by accession in 1983
CSME participation:
No
Skills certificate regime:
Not implemented in Bahamian law
Trinidad and Tobago

CARICOM Movement into Trinidad and Tobago: Who Issued the Certificate Decides

Certificate issued by another Member State:
Six months
Certificate issued by Trinidad and Tobago:
Indefinite duration
Where the line is drawn:
By which government issued the certificate
Uruguay

Mercosur Residency in Uruguay

Venezuela

Regional Agreements and Residence in Venezuela

Mercosur:
Full member, suspended in all rights and obligations
Andean Community:
Not a member
Residence route for Mercosur nationals under Venezuelan law:
None found