Country-wide policy
Every migration fee is priced in UFV, not in bolivianos
Bolivia does not set migration fees in money. It sets them in Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda, an inflation-indexed unit whose value in bolivianos is published daily, and you pay the boliviano equivalent on the day you pay. Every figure on this country's pages is therefore a number of UFV: quoting it in bolivianos without saying so would be publishing a number that goes quietly stale.
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
- Read every fee as a number of UFV, not as an amount of money
- Check the UFV of the day before budgeting - the migration directorate prints it at the top of its own procedures page
- The amount due is the boliviano equivalent on the date of payment, not on the date the fee was set
At a glance
- Unit fees are set in
- UFV - Unidad de Fomento a la Vivienda
- Who sets the tariff
- The migration directorate with the Ministry of Government's revenue directorate, approved by Ministerial Resolution
- UFV of the day
- Bs. 3.35
Printed by the migration directorate at the head of its procedures page on the day we read it. It moves daily.
- Worked example: the treaty residence fee
- 450 UFV, about Bs 1,507.50CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our arithmetic, not a published amount: 450 UFV, the fee the migration directorate lists for both the Andean and the Mercosur residence routes, multiplied by the UFV of the day of Bs. 3.35 that the same directorate printed on 27 September 2026. Both inputs come from that directorate; the product is ours and is only true for that day.
Why this matters more here than elsewhere
Paraguay prices its migration fees in jornales and Argentina in UMSM; Bolivia uses the UFV, which is recalculated every day rather than revised by decree. A boliviano figure published today is wrong tomorrow, so the fees on these pages stay in UFV and the conversion is left to the reader with the day's rate beside it.
What the law says
«establecerá las tasas y aranceles por servicios migratorios en Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda – UFV, las cuales serán aprobadas mediante Resolución Ministerial.»Our translation - not official
shall set the fees and tariffs for migration services in Housing Promotion Units - UFV, which shall be approved by Ministerial Resolution.
About this source
A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
We re-read it every 365 days. More about this source
«El pago de las tasas y aranceles se hará efectivo en su equivalente en bolivianos a la fecha del cobro.»Our translation - not official
Payment of the fees and tariffs shall be made in their boliviano equivalent on the date of collection.
The date that fixes the amount is the date of payment, which is why no boliviano figure can be published as the fee.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
We re-read it every 365 days. More about this source
«UFV del día Bs. 3.35»Our translation - not official
UFV of the day Bs 3.35
Read on 27 September 2026. The directorate republishes this figure every day.
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
Practical notes
The Ministerial Resolution that fixes the current tariff table has not been read. The UFV amounts here come from the migration directorate's own procedure listings, which is the agency stating what it charges rather than the instrument that sets it.
Consular visa fees are the exception: consulates abroad publish those in United States dollars, not in UFV.