Country-wide policy
Every foreigner must declare an address in the migration system
Whatever route you take, the migration directorate attaches the same condition to it: you have to file a sworn statement of your current address on its online platform. The notice appears word for word on every residence procedure Bolivia publishes, from a 30-day tourist extension to naturalisation, and it names the decree that introduced it.
Topics it changes
- Visiting as a tourist
- Residency on passive income
- Residency as a retiree
- Residency through work
- Residency through investment
- Residency as a student
- Residency through ancestry
- Residency through marriage
- Residency under a regional treaty
- Becoming a citizen
What it requires
- File the sworn statement of current address on the migration management system, SIGEMIG
- Expect to be asked for it on top of the documents listed for whichever route you are using
- Documents issued abroad in a language other than Spanish must be translated and legalised, except bank statements and money-transfer receipts
At a glance
- What is required
- A sworn statement of current address
- Where it is filed
- SIGEMIG, the migration management system
- Introduced by
- Decreto Supremo 4574, amending the migration regulation
Named by the migration directorate on every procedure it publishes. The decree itself was not read, so its date is not stated here.
- Which routes it applies to
- Every residence procedure the directorate publishes
What the law says
«De acuerdo al Decreto Supremo 4574, la persona extranjera deberá realizar la Declaración Jurada de Domicilio Actual, que deberá ser llenado en la plataforma del Sistema de Gestión Migratoria (SIGEMIG).»Our translation - not official
In accordance with Supreme Decree 4574, the foreign person must make the Sworn Statement of Current Address, which must be completed on the platform of the Migration Management System (SIGEMIG).
This is the agency restating the decree, not the decree. Decreto Supremo 4574 amends Decreto Supremo 1923; its own text could not be retrieved, so what it says beyond this sentence is unknown to us.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The migration directorate. Runs the migration system and publishes the requirement and fee catalogue for every procedure, differentiated by the applicant's nationality - which is how the difference between an Andean, a Mercosur and an ordinary applicant becomes visible at all.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the text of any instrument: it paraphrases and mis-titles them, calling SEGIP's counterpart the "Dirección Nacional de Migración". Cannot be cited for the visa-group lists, which it never publishes, nor for how tourist requirements differ by nationality - its tourist rows are identical for every country and demand a consular visa even of visa-exempt ones, which contradicts Decision 878. Two of its requirement fields ship with developer placeholder text still in them. The citable text is a JSON feed on a non-standard port, so a publisher-origin match will not find it.
We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source
«Todos los documentos emitidos por el país de origen o de su última residencia en otro idioma diferente al español deberán ser traducidos y debidamente legalizados. (No aplica a extractos bancarios o comprobantes de envío de dinero).»Our translation - not official
All documents issued by the country of origin or of last residence in a language other than Spanish must be translated and duly legalised. (Does not apply to bank statements or money-transfer receipts.)
About this source
The migration directorate. Runs the migration system and publishes the requirement and fee catalogue for every procedure, differentiated by the applicant's nationality - which is how the difference between an Andean, a Mercosur and an ordinary applicant becomes visible at all.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the text of any instrument: it paraphrases and mis-titles them, calling SEGIP's counterpart the "Dirección Nacional de Migración". Cannot be cited for the visa-group lists, which it never publishes, nor for how tourist requirements differ by nationality - its tourist rows are identical for every country and demand a consular visa even of visa-exempt ones, which contradicts Decision 878. Two of its requirement fields ship with developer placeholder text still in them. The citable text is a JSON feed on a non-standard port, so a publisher-origin match will not find it.
We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source
Practical notes
We could not retrieve the text of Decreto Supremo 4574 itself. Everything recorded here is the migration directorate's summary of it, repeated identically across its procedure listings.
The directorate's listings say nothing about what happens if the address changes later, or about any deadline for filing.