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Titre de Sejour for Stays over Three Months

Central African RepublicLong-term residence

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What exact status does accumulated residence lead to?

The 2024 IOM profile states that only certain foreign residents may request a residence permit of indefinite duration, but the reviewed passage does not identify those residents, the procedure, or how that permit relates to the other statuses. It separately reports two residence-card statuses under Law No. 60.70: privileged resident and ordinary resident. Privileged residence is described for foreign spouses of Central Africans who retain their original nationality and for foreign parents of a Central African child; other immigrants fall under ordinary residence.

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Limits of the record
  • The eligibility criteria, procedure and relationship of the indefinite-duration permit to the privileged and ordinary cards were not established.
  • The complete current application procedure and amendment history of Law No. 60.70 were not established.
  • A years-based accumulation pathway was not established.
  • IOM Profile 2024, residence-status passage
    Seuls certains résidents étrangers ont le droit de demander un permis de séjour à durée indéterminée.
  • IOM Profile 2024, residence-status passage
    Selon la loi nº 60.70 fixant les conditions d'entrée, de séjour et de sortie des étrangers de République centrafricaine, « les étrangers séjournant en République centrafricaine sont classés résidents privilégiés ou résidents ordinaires ».
  • IOM Profile 2024, residence-status passage
    Ainsi, peuvent obtenir une « carte de séjour de résident privilégié » les étrangers mariés à des Centrafricains et qui ont conservé leur nationalité d'origine, les étrangers pères ou mères d'un enfant centrafricain.

What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?

Answer not available

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Limits of the record
  • The sole captured IOM excerpt concerns a privileged-resident card for specified Central African family members, not the queried initial titre de séjour for stays over three months. No route-specific official legal provision stating required prior years or the start of counting is captured. The bounded official-domain search recorded in the research run did not supply such a provision; no absence of a rule is inferred.

Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?

Answer not available

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Limits of the record
  • The captured IOM excerpt contrasts privileged and ordinary resident-card populations; it does not identify which prior stays count for the initial over-three-month titre de séjour. The bounded official-domain search did not locate a route-specific counting rule, and no general absence is inferred.

What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the absence and continuity rules for the qualifying residence period.

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Limits of the record
  • No absence allowance, continuity rule or treatment of interrupted residence was established.

What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?

The privileged-resident card is reported as valid for no more than two years and the ordinary-resident title for no more than one year. The source does not provide the current form, filing office, fees, processing time, renewal procedure, retention conditions or loss grounds; these must be confirmed with the competent Central African authority before application.

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Limits of the record
  • No current form, filing office, fee schedule, processing time, renewal procedure, retention condition or loss ground was established.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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