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U.S. Embassy in Haiti

Reports, establishes nothing

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.

Describes what others have done. Useful as a signal that something has moved, never as proof that it has.

ht.usembassy.gov

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.

Re-check every

90 days

Publication rhythm

A standing page, updated without notice and undated.

Re-check triggers

a change to the residence permit fees · any change to the threshold at which the permit becomes compulsory

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