COUNTRY COVERAGE RECORD

Cape Verde

destination authority catalogued · 156 distinct official sources

Destination preparation

No guided preparation pathway available

Destination authority

Direção de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras/National Police; Foreign Affairs and consular posts; DGRNI; Directorate-General of Labour; High Authority for Immigration; and protection-referral actors catalogued

Documents from this country

No document rules published

DESTINATION PREPARATION

Preparation pathways for Cape Verde

These are narrow, versioned workflows for immigration to this country. A released pack does not establish eligibility or authorize filing.

Not available

No destination preparation pathway is available for Cape Verde.

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DESTINATION AUTHORITY

Official authority record

This record identifies the government authority and current channel boundaries. It is independent from whether Wayfinder has released a preparation pathway.

Governed authority release

Direção de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras/National Police; Foreign Affairs and consular posts; DGRNI; Directorate-General of Labour; High Authority for Immigration; and protection-referral actors

Active release 1; only the approved active release is public

Published: July 16, 2026
Next review: August 15, 2026
Filing-channel state: Route Authority Actor Account Post And Personal Stage Specific
Monitoring state: Manual Source Review

Filing boundary

Research-only coverage. Cabo Verde has no verified universal public immigration, nationality, protection, civil-registry, payment, status or decision API. DEF and the National Police, Foreign Affairs and consular posts, DGRNI, DGT, AAI, Casa do Cidadão and protection-referral actors exercise separate functions; public pages, authenticated browser workspaces, internal interoperability and document-validation services do not establish reusable filing, payment, bulk-status, decision or monitoring endpoints. The foreigners baseline is Law 66/VIII/2014 as amended by Law 80/VIII/2015, Law 19/IX/2017 and Law 27/X/2023, with procedure republished by Decree-Law 13/2025; earlier rules are historical or preserved layers only to the extent the current enactment chain leaves them in force. CPLP mobility, temporary and residence visas, subordinate work, independent activity, investment, highly qualified activity, study, family reunification, retirement, remote-work or digital-nomad residence, permanent residence and Green Card routes are category-specific and do not create blanket free movement, work authority or admission. EASE traveller pre-registration is not a visa or border decision. Portal availability does not prove current intake, and DEF route slugs that conflict with visible titles must be matched by page content and authority. The Portuguese GOV.CV visa page describes an online service while the English page says embassy or consular handling remains current and online availability is developing; live DEF or competent-post confirmation controls. Permanent residence after five qualifying years and renewal of an issued permanent TRE card are distinct legal events. Portaria 40/2025 set the general DEF tariff effective 1 February 2026; Portaria 17/2026 suspended only specified items through 30 June 2026 and is expired on its face, but any later extension, amount, currency, payee, method and receipt must be rechecked before payment. Service-page fee examples are dated evidence, not hard-coded prices. Nationality research must use Law 33/X/2023, Law 37/X/2024 and Decree-Law 29/2024, with the 2025 system audit and current registry or consular channel checked before action. The Constitution and Law 99/V/99 supply the located asylum framework, but UNHCR reports no functioning state asylum-registration or refugee-status-determination body or procedure; IOM and UNHCR Senegal referral is a safeguarded human handoff, not an operational government filing route. Cabo Verde is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, acceded to the 1967 Protocol with a regional-agreement declaration, and is not listed for the 1954 or 1961 Statelessness Conventions. It is bound by the Apostille and Intercountry Adoption Conventions; Child Abduction Convention effects depend on bilateral acceptance, and Cabo Verde is not listed for the Service Convention. Portuguese First Series Gazette text controls; commencement, amendment, rectification and repeal must be reconciled. The 2025 Judicial Organisation Law, 2026 Administrative Procedure Code and 2026 Child and Adolescent Statute must be layered onto older court, procedure and Penal Code sources. Civil Code reform remains pending. Empresa Online is beta, 2025 Industrial Property Code text supersedes authority pages still citing the 2007 code, cadastral consequences depend on the declared area, and procurement reform reported as pending must not displace the enacted 2015 baseline without Gazette confirmation. Court, civil-status, tax, company, land, professional, procurement and other services remain person-, role-, territory- and account-specific. Identity, consent, originals, certified translation, apostille or legalization, signature, video identification, biometrics, interview, fee authority, payment, border appearance, oath, decision, receipt and collection remain actor- or authority-controlled. No source monitoring is configured; review is manual only. This research-only release activates no pathway, eligibility decision, form-preparation pack, source monitoring, fee engine, representative filing, portal action, payment, transmission, legal advice, or government submission.

Representative participation

Representation in Cabo Verde is route-, authority-, actor-, capacity-, account- and stage-specific. A lawyer whose current Ordem dos Advogados de Cabo Verde standing is verified may advise and prepare materials within the lawful engagement, but no universal lawyer filing entitlement, reusable attorney account or public representative API was found. The criminal-record and nationality-by-marriage services identify limited representative use, while residence rules for a minor or legally incapable person and consular, registry or court powers of attorney apply only to their stated acts. A power of attorney, retainer, employer, sponsor or family role does not transfer the applicant's declarations, account credentials, qualified mobile signature, mandatory video identity check, photograph or facial biometrics, interview, border appearance, passport or original-document presentation, payment authorization, oath or collection. A foreign lawyer's practice authority and any cross-border arrangement require direct OACV confirmation. Verify the live roll, mandate, named actor, account owner, form, fee, personal stages and receipt before any representative act.

Official authority links

Work without residence status — contract invalidity and DGT-approved promise guidancehttps://aai.gov.cv/cat-faq/178-um-estrangeiro-que-n%C3%A3o-tem-autoriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-resid%C3%AAncia-nem-visto-pode-celebrar-um-contrato-de-trabalho-em-cabo-verde

No destination preparation pathway is available for Cape Verde.

Filing boundary

Representative participation

Official authority links

No source-specific document rules are published for records from Cape Verde.