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Servicio Nacional de Migración (Panama)

Applies the rule

Panama's migration service, under the Ministry of Public Security. It decides applications and publishes one requirement sheet per permit, which is the document an applicant and their lawyer actually work from.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

www.migracion.gob.pa

Cannot be cited for

It must not be cited for what the law says. Its sheets' legal-basis lines are wrong in both directions - they attribute amendments to articles that the decree they name never touched, and date that decree by its gazette rather than its signature - and on the retired rentista the same agency files the permit under permanent residence while the sheet behind the link quotes an article calling it temporary. It is authoritative for what the agency will ask for, and that is where its value lies. It also no longer publishes the list of visa-required nationalities. Its URLs rot: links followed from search results were already dead.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Requirement sheets are re-uploaded under dated paths; the site is rebuilt often and old links stop working rather than redirecting.

Re-check triggers

a new executive decree on migration · a change of director · a reported change to the Friendly Nations list

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