Haiti

Haiti residence permit with employment or sponsor support. A non-Haitian may request a time-limited residence permit from Haiti’s Immigration and Emigration Directorate, supported by an employer or person guaranteeing the stay.

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Haiti residence permit with employment or sponsor support

Permission to remain in Haiti for the period granted; the residence permit alone does not establish work authorization.

Who qualifies

Write to the Immigration and Emigration Directorate explaining the reason for residence, and provide a passport identity-page copy and a letter from an employer or sponsor guaranteeing the stay and repatriation if needed.
Haiti public services portal: residence permit procedure
Provide a recent medical certificate, two passport photographs, last-arrival card, birth certificate with French translation, recent home-country criminal record, and an attestation from a bank in Haiti showing at least 7,500 gourdes or US$200.
Haiti public services portal: residence permit procedure
Complete the application form and interview, then pay the 5,000-gourde treasury charge listed by the government service procedure.
Haiti public services portal: residence permit procedure

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

It could fit.

A non-Haitian may request a time-limited residence permit from Haiti’s Immigration and Emigration Directorate, supported by an employer or person guaranteeing the stay.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Time: Processing starts after the authority accepts a complete file; travel and work begin only after the required permission issues.
Cost: 5,000 gourdes payable to the Treasury, plus document, translation and medical costs.
The hard part: Obtaining the local sponsor guarantee and Haitian bank attestation.

Citizens by 2033.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.
2032
Apply for citizenship
2033
Citizenship

Time away: Five years of residence in Haiti, proved with a residence certificate from the local justice of the peace countersigned by the mayor and a copy of the applicant’s residence permit.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Renewed residence permits and actual continuous residence build the five-year naturalisation record; Haiti publishes no separate ordinary permanent-residence milestone for this option.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.

The law behind these dates

Living there.

Time you must spend there: The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax: Where you become tax resident follows the days you spend there and where your home is. We map it for your family before you move.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Prepare the reasoned residence letter and sponsor documents for the Immigration and Emigration Directorate.Open servicespublics.gouv.ht ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of how you will support yourselves
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move

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The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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