COUNTRY COVERAGE RECORD

Chad

destination authority catalogued · 156 distinct official sources

Destination preparation

No guided preparation pathway available

Destination authority

Ministry of Public Security and Immigration for admission and stay; Foreign Affairs for diplomatic, courtesy and consular matters; ONAPE for employment authorization; and protection, nationality, civil-status and justice authorities catalogued

Documents from this country

No document rules published

DESTINATION PREPARATION

Preparation pathways for Chad

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

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No destination preparation pathway is available for Chad.

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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

Ministry of Public Security and Immigration for admission and stay; Foreign Affairs for diplomatic, courtesy and consular matters; ONAPE for employment authorization; and protection, nationality, civil-status and justice authorities

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 Date Source Health And Personal Stage Specific
Monitoring state: Manual Source Review

Filing boundary

Chad has no verified universal public filing, payment, case-status or decision API across immigration, judicial, civil, commercial and regulatory authorities. This is a research-only authority catalogue. Competence, form, fee, evidence, signature, channel and personal stages must be confirmed with the responsible authority for the event date. Monitoring is not configured. Decree 2299/PR/PM/MSPI/2025 of 17 September 2025 is the reviewed current admission and stay instrument and expressly repeals contrary rules, including Decree 0128/PR/PM/MSPI/2024. The Gazette text, later amendments, implementing orders and live Immigration instructions must be reconciled before any checklist or operational pack. The 11 May 2026 eVisa notice states that ordinary visa applications became exclusively online and that manual entry authorizations were abolished, with diplomatic and courtesy visas remaining under Foreign Affairs. That notice does not create a reusable API, representative credential, guaranteed issuance, carrier clearance, border admission, residence or work authorization. The 1 June 2026 circular recommends filing at least seven days before travel, states a maximum 60-day advance window, gives standard and express processing targets, and limits extensions to one for 15- and 30-day visas. Public portal text also describes a 90-day advance window and broader extension contact. Treat that conflict as unresolved until the current circular, decree and Immigration instructions are confirmed for the route and date. Joint Order 033/PR/PM/MFBEPCI/MSPI/2026 is cited as the current visa and residence-card fee instrument, but its complete official text and rate table were not retrieved in the reviewed public sources. Do not calculate, quote, collect or initiate a government fee from summaries. Confirm the current order, category, currency, government payee, payment method and official receipt directly in the lawful applicant flow. CEMAC status is not blanket admission, residence, work or professional authorization. Decree 2299/2025 describes specified CEMAC identity documents and a 90-day stay subject to current law. Confirm nationality, document class, purpose, duration, registration, residence, employment and professional conditions with the competent Chadian authority. A stay beyond 90 days generally requires the applicable residence card or long-stay basis. Decree 2299/2025 separates residence documentation from employment and professional authorization and requires personal enrolment for specified long-stay processing. Labour Code Law 038/PR/96 remains the reviewed enacted baseline; the reviewed 2025 material concerns revision work, not a verified promulgated replacement. ONAPE employment authorization, contract endorsement, immigration status and profession-specific approval remain distinct stages. Nationality Code Ordinance 33/PG-INT of 14 August 1962 and implementing Decree 211/PG-INT of 6 November 1963 are the reviewed nationality baseline and require current Gazette reconciliation before operational use. Nationality attribution, acquisition, proof, loss, passport, civil registration and immigration status are separate. Asylum Law 027/PR/2020 and implementing Decree 0648/PT/PM/MATDBG/2023 are the reviewed domestic protection framework. Chad is recorded as party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol and both the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions. Protection, trafficking, detention, removal, non-refoulement and statelessness matters require human-safety triage and must never be auto-transmitted. The 2023 Constitution must be read with Revision Law 0001/PC/2025 and the current consolidation. French and Arabic are official languages. Filing language, translation, certification, interpreter and original requirements remain route- and authority-specific. Translation, legalization, a civil record or a consular document does not establish the underlying record's validity, immigration effect or acceptance. The reviewed HCCH Apostille, Intercountry Adoption, Child Abduction and Service Convention status tables did not list Chad as a Contracting Party. Do not infer an apostille, central-authority route, service method, adoption pathway or document-acceptance consequence from another country's participation. Confirm current treaty status and document-specific authentication, legalization, court and consular requirements. A lawyer's professional standing and a route-specific accepted mandate are separate from authority to use another person's account, sign a personal declaration, supply a passport, complete an upload, enrolment, biometric or interview, authorize payment or collect a decision. 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 is route-, authority-, actor-, account-, standing-, mandate-, date-, source-health- and personal-stage-specific. An applicant may act personally where the controlling route permits and may engage a Chadian lawyer for a defined review or representation scope, but no lawyer, employer, host, sponsor, family member, mission employee, filing agent, AI system or platform has universal filing authority. Verify current Bar standing, discipline, conflicts, subject-matter and forum competence, mandate, identity and the receiving authority's accepted representative role directly with the professional body and responsible public authority. The reviewed public sources did not establish a reusable public lawyer-standing API, a complete live public roll or a universal representative-submission channel. A retainer, power of attorney, professional listing or portal account never transfers another person's credentials or replaces a declaration, signature, passport, identity check, original, upload, biometric, enrolment, interview, oath, appearance, payment authorization, service or collection stage assigned personally to the applicant or another actor. The eVisa portal supports actor-specific application, payment and status steps; it does not establish attorney-controlled automation or permission to reuse credentials. Never share credentials, CAPTCHA responses or one-time codes; impersonate an account holder; initiate a government payment without current authority and informed approval; or treat an application, upload, receipt, visa, residence card, work authorization, civil record, passport or professional listing as approval of another status. Recheck current law, authority, standing, mandate, form, evidence, signature, fee, channel, deadline, receipt, decision, stay and remedy before action.

Official authority links

Paris consular downloads — document and administrative-process index; verify images and fees with the missionhttps://ambatchadparis.fr/?page_id=2716

No destination preparation pathway is available for Chad.

Filing boundary

Representative participation

Official authority links

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