Haiti

Visa types: Hardly anyone needs a Haitian visa: a passport valid for at least six months, 10 US dollars on arrival — and ninety days of a «courtesy visit». The formalities are handled on the spot, at any international airport or land border post. · A visa is required from citizens of nine countries: the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, Syria, Libya, Iran, Vietnam and Yemen. They are asked to apply no later than one month before departure. · The embassy in Ottawa divides the visas issued by a mission into four kinds: simple (visitor), official, special and diplomatic. Non-resident (long-stay) and permanent-residence visas do not fall within a mission's competence at all: they are the business of the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration inside the country, though the case may be started at a mission. · Longer than ninety days — only by permit of the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration, and it runs not for a year from the date of issue but for a fiscal year: from 1 October to 30 September. Renewal is annual, with the receipt for income tax paid for the year just ended. · Persons of Haitian descent are exempted from the residence permit by an explicit clause of the source. · The country has no single tariff: each embassy prints the price in its own table. Washington counts by term (100 US dollars for three months, 200 for six with multiple entry), Ottawa by number of entries — and names different figures on two of its own pages: 40 and 50 Canadian dollars on the visa page against 80 and 140 on the page of «amended fees».

Haiti is read through its embassies: not one authority inside the country answers on the substance. The site of the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities, `mict.gouv.ht`, to which the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration reports, serves a 2396-byte «site under construction» stub; `migration.gouv.ht`, `die.gouv.ht`, `haiti.gouv.ht` and `presidence.ht` do not resolve at all. The foreign ministry `mae.gouv.ht` is alive and weighs 134 KB, but there is not a line about visas on it: its sections are legalisation, services to Haitians, scholarships, missions. Its list of missions, however, leads to two embassy sites which publish everything essential: `haiti.org` (Washington) — the visa-free rule, the list of nine nationalities that do need a visa, the list of documents and a tariff; `ambassade-haiti.ca` (Ottawa) — its own tariff, the division of visas into four kinds and, above all, the full procedure for the long-stay permit with its source named: «DIE», the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration itself. The legal footing of that procedure is named outright — the decree-law of 26 December 1978 on immigration and emigration, articles 31–34. What is missing: the amount of the permit fee (the list says «the required sum» by cheque to the Treasury), decision times for any ground at all, the conditions of a work permit, and the procedure for persons of Haitian descent, exempted from the permit by a single clause.

Document certification

consular legalisation

The country does not accept apostilles: documents go through consular legalisation in three steps — ministry of justice, foreign ministry, consulate.

Limit

no limit

Bread, 500 g

$ 0,72

Milk, 1 l

$ 1,22

Eggs, 12

$ 1,67

Chicken breast, 1 kg

$ 4,48

Cheese, 1 kg

$ 7,23

Rice, 1 kg

$ 1,17

Potatoes, 1 kg

$ 1,01

Apples, 1 kg

$ 2,35

Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 l

$ 1,17

Total

$ 21,0

The same set for every country, so the comparison is fair.

Rent, 1 bedroom

$ 220 a month

Rent, 3 bedrooms

$ 480 a month

Utility bills

$ 62,8 a month

Home internet

$ 24,6 a month

Monthly transport pass

$ 15,1 a month

Single transport ticket

$ 0,37

Petrol, litre

$ 1,03

Cold medicine

$ 3,76 for a week

Country averages. City prices, where collected, are shown above and are more precise.

Life expectancy

65,1 years2024

Homicides

64,3 per 100k2024

Road deaths

31,3 per 100k2021

Unemployment

14,9 %2025

Unemployment, ages 15–24

37,5 %2025

Health spending per person

$ 54,4 a year

Air pollution, PM2.5

15,8 µg/m³2023

Access to clean water

73,3 %2024

Internet, fixed line

48,6 Mbit/s2026

Governance

Political stability

low · -1,2

Control of corruption

low · -1,5

Rule of law

low · -1,6

Government effectiveness

low · -2

World Bank estimates on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale, higher is better.

Natural hazards

Earthquakes

8,4 out of 10

River floods

4,7 out of 10

Coastal floods

4,5 out of 10

Tropical cyclones

8,9 out of 10

Droughts

3,7 out of 10

Tsunamis

4,1 out of 10

Each value carries the year it refers to. “Data lags behind” means this country's figure was collected noticeably earlier than the rest. Natural hazards use one 0–10 scale and are meant to be compared against each other.

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