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Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba - Ministerio de Justicia

Issues the instrument

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.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

www.gacetaoficial.gob.cu

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.

Re-check every

21 days

Publication rhythm

Ordinary editions several times a week; extraordinary and special editions without notice. Special editions have been appearing through 2026 as Decreto-Ley 107 of 2025 and its successors order instrument after instrument to be updated, revised and concorded.

Re-check triggers

1 November 2026, when Ley 171, Ley 172, Ley 173, Decreto 136/2025, Decreto 137/2025 and Resolución 24/2025 enter into force · any ministerial resolution defining the citizenship examination required by Ley 172 art. 36(1)(f) · any resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security on work permits for foreigners · a new edición especial concording Ley 113, Ley 109 or Decreto-Ley 22 · any decree-law on the migratory status of Cuban citizens resident abroad · any resolution of the Minister of Finance and Prices amending Annex 4 of Ley 113 or the customs value ceilings

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