Entering Guyana as a Visitor
This replaces the general rule for you
CARICOM nationals: six months at the border, and you may arrive without a passport
A national of one of the thirteen countries in Part B of Schedule I to the Immigration Act is granted a permit to enter and remain for six months, rather than the up-to-three-months an immigration officer may give anyone else. All eight members of this group are in Part B. The second change is older and stranger: the Immigration (Alternative to Passports) Order 1992 lets a national of a Caribbean Community country in its own Schedule enter Guyana without a passport at all, on production of a driving licence or a national identification card that is valid, carries a recent photograph and clearly shows the holder's home address and nationality. The Order is still in the statute book and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs separately lists every one of these states as needing no visa, citing article 45 of the Revised Treaty. None of this is free movement: it is a longer visitor's permit and a relaxed identity requirement, and it carries no right to work.
Surinamese nationals: six months and no passport needed, but not in the domestic space
Suriname was added to Part B of Schedule I to the Immigration Act as item 11A, which means a Surinamese national is granted six months at entry rather than up to three. Suriname is also in the Schedule to the Immigration (Alternative to Passports) Order, so a Surinamese may enter on a driving licence or an identification card instead of a passport, and it is on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs list of nationalities needing no visa, unqualified. What Suriname is not in is Schedule III, the list of ten domestic space countries the Act uses for advance passenger information, and that is the one Caribbean list from which it is missing. Suriname also appears in Part A of Schedule I in its own right: graduates of the University of Suriname are a free-entry category alongside graduates of the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana.
The Immigration Act gives an immigration officer two lengths and nothing in between: a permit of up to three months for most nationalities, and six months for a national of one of the thirteen countries in Part B of its Schedule I - the Commonwealth Caribbean plus Suriname and Montserrat, and without Haiti. Either can be extended, but only up to three years from the date of entry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs works to shorter numbers than the Act allows: a visa issued on arrival runs one month and may be extended twice by a month each, at US$25 a time. Which passports need a visa is published as a numbered list of 71 countries and territories, which is a real list rather than a search box; the trap is that the same page carries a second list, for where Guyanese may travel without a visa, and losing the headings turns the two into one. Separately, every alien aged sixteen or over who enters must register with the police within three days.
At a glance
- Permit at entry, most nationalities
- Up to three months
- Permit at entry, nationals of a Part B country
- Six months
- Countries in Part B of Schedule I
- Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Thirteen. Haiti, a member of the Caribbean Community, is not among them.
- Outer limit on extensions
- Three years from the date of entry into Guyana
- Visa on arrival, period granted
- One month in the first instanceas of 2026-10-06
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advisory. The Act lets the officer grant three months.
- Visa on arrival, extensions
- A maximum of two, of one month eachas of 2026-10-06
- Visitor visa fee
- US$25.00, and a further US$25.00 for each extensionas of 2026-10-06
- Countries whose nationals need no visa
- 71 countries and territoriesas of 2025-07-17
Counted from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs list, numbered 1 to 71 and dated 17 July 2025. Many entries are limited to a passport type or to a number of days.
- Alien registration after entry
- Within three days, for an alien aged sixteen or over
- Named ports of entry
- Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Springlands, Morawhanna, the Government Station at Lethem, Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Bartica, the Police Stations at Orinduik and Good Hope, the airstrip at Omai, and the Moleson Creek wharf
Requirements
- A passport, or a document that establishes your identity and national status to the immigration officer's satisfaction
- A Guyanese consular visa, unless your nationality is on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs list or your passport falls within one of the exemptions in the Immigration (Passports) Order
- Entry at one of the places named as a port of entry in regulation 8 of the Immigration Regulations
- Sufficient means to support yourself and any dependants you bring - the onus is on you once the officer raises it
- Registration with a registration officer within three days of entry, if you are an alien aged sixteen or over
- For a visa issued on arrival: two photographs, a letter of invitation, the name, address and contact details of your inviter or sponsor, the name and address of your hotel if you are a tourist, and evidence of finances to cover thirty days
In detail
Three months, six months, and the list that decides which
Section 12(1) of the Immigration Act splits arrivals in two. A person who is not a national of a country named in Part B of Schedule I may be granted a permit for a period not exceeding three months; a national of a Part B country is granted a permit for six months. Part B names thirteen states - the Commonwealth Caribbean members of the Community, Montserrat, and Suriname, which was inserted as item 11A. Haiti is not there, so a Haitian arrival is on the three-month limb alongside a Brazilian or a Briton. Whichever limb applies, the Chief Immigration Officer may extend the permit, and section 12(3) caps the whole stay at three years from the date of entry.
What the counter does instead
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes an advisory for travellers who cannot reach a Guyanese mission, and it sets out what is granted on arrival. A visitor's visa is issued for one month and may be extended twice, a month at a time, at US$25 each. That is a shorter first grant than the Act's three months and a far shorter total than the Act's three years. Business travellers are treated the other way: the same advisory grants a business visa for five years, which is longer than any permit section 12 can produce. Both figures come from the same page and neither can be traced to a provision of the Act.
The visa list, and the second list underneath it
Guyana publishes a readable list of the nationalities that need no visa - 71 numbered entries dated 17 July 2025, grouped by region, many qualified by passport type or by a number of days. That is a better record than most countries in this comparison manage. The trap is on the same page: a second list follows, headed as the countries Guyanese may enter without a visa and dated 16 October 2025. The two overlap heavily and differ in detail, and a capture that loses the headings presents them as a single list of 125 entries. Where they disagree - Haiti is unqualified in one and limited to diplomatic passport holders in the other - only the first is about entering Guyana.
Registering with the police after you arrive
Separately from anything the Immigration Act requires, the Aliens (Immigration and Registration) Act obliges every alien in Guyana to register as an alien with a registration officer, and an alien aged sixteen or over who enters must do so within three days. The Chief Registration Officer is the Commissioner of Police, and the particulars demanded include the address of your last place of residence outside Guyana. There is an exemption order from 1948 covering United States citizens on short visits and people crossing a land frontier for up to fourteen days, but as printed its operative clause says the registration duty applies to those classes, which is the opposite of what its title says it does.
Country-level policy
Georgetown is the seat of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, and a reader might expect that to show in Guyanese law as a headquarters agreement, a privileges and immunities regime for Secretariat staff, or a special status for Community nationals. It shows in two places and neither is about the headquarters. The Caribbean Community Act 2006 gives the Revised Treaty the force of law in Guyana and provides that where it conflicts with any other law except the Constitution it prevails - a stronger incorporation than most members enacted. And a 1982 Order under the Privileges and Immunities Act declares the Community and the Common Market to be organisations to which section 13 of that Act applies and gives them the legal capacities of a body corporate. That Order was made under the original 1973 Treaty, confers none of the Fifth Schedule privileges on officers or staff on its face, and has not been replaced. We found no headquarters agreement in the Laws of Guyana, and no provision anywhere that treats a Community national differently because the Secretariat is here.
Guyana's statute book is published under the Law Revision Act, which establishes a Law Revision Commission chaired by the Attorney-General, lets it publish in loose-leaf or any other form it determines, and makes every authorised page bear the number of the Law Revision Order that put it there. Section 9 then says those pages are, in all courts and for all purposes, the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The authority is therefore the L.R.O. number printed at the foot of every page, and on mola.gov.gy two different numbers are in circulation. The first three volumes carry L.R.O. 1/2022; everything from volume four onwards carries L.R.O. 1/2012, which the Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 shows the law as it stood on 31 December 2012. Immigration, citizenship, aliens, the CARICOM Acts, income tax, customs and road traffic are all in the older half.
Four CARICOM states - Barbados, Belize, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - have extended free movement among themselves beyond the Skills Certificate, so that each other's nationals may enter, live, work and remain indefinitely without a permit. Guyana is not one of them, and the right place to see that is its own statute book rather than a communique. Belize legislated for its version, with an Indefinite Stay Stamp at the port and a statutory appeal; Guyana has no equivalent Act and no equivalent provision. What Guyana's law does contain is the Skills Certificate regime of Chapter 18:08, the right of establishment in Chapter 18:10, and section 12(7A) of the Immigration Act, which admits Community nationals exercising rights under either of those Acts without a permit. Nothing in any of them extends to a Community national who holds no certificate and is establishing no enterprise. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs list confirms the position from the other side: a CARICOM national gets visa-free entry under article 45 of the Revised Treaty, and the Immigration Act then gives six months.
What applies to you
CARICOM nationals: six months at the border, and you may arrive without a passport
A national of one of the thirteen countries in Part B of Schedule I to the Immigration Act is granted a permit to enter and remain for six months, rather than the up-to-three-months an immigration officer may give anyone else. All eight members of this group are in Part B. The second change is older and stranger: the Immigration (Alternative to Passports) Order 1992 lets a national of a Caribbean Community country in its own Schedule enter Guyana without a passport at all, on production of a driving licence or a national identification card that is valid, carries a recent photograph and clearly shows the holder's home address and nationality. The Order is still in the statute book and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs separately lists every one of these states as needing no visa, citing article 45 of the Revised Treaty. None of this is free movement: it is a longer visitor's permit and a relaxed identity requirement, and it carries no right to work.
- A passport issued by a Part B country, or a valid driving licence or national identification card showing home address, nationality and a recent photograph
- Nothing more at the border; the six months is granted rather than applied for
- A Skills Certificate or an establishment right under Chapter 18:10 if you intend to work or to set up in business
Surinamese nationals: six months and no passport needed, but not in the domestic space
Suriname was added to Part B of Schedule I to the Immigration Act as item 11A, which means a Surinamese national is granted six months at entry rather than up to three. Suriname is also in the Schedule to the Immigration (Alternative to Passports) Order, so a Surinamese may enter on a driving licence or an identification card instead of a passport, and it is on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs list of nationalities needing no visa, unqualified. What Suriname is not in is Schedule III, the list of ten domestic space countries the Act uses for advance passenger information, and that is the one Caribbean list from which it is missing. Suriname also appears in Part A of Schedule I in its own right: graduates of the University of Suriname are a free-entry category alongside graduates of the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana.
- A Surinamese passport, or a valid driving licence or identification card showing home address, nationality and a recent photograph
- No visa
- Entry at a named port of entry; Springlands and the Moleson Creek wharf are among them
What the law says
«a national of a country mentioned in
Part B of Schedule 1 grant him a
permit to enter and remain in Guyana
for six months,»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
Paragraph (a), immediately before it, gives a permit "for such period not exceeding three months" to a person who is not a national of a Part B country. The Act's own text alternates between "Schedule 1" and "Schedule I".
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«The immigration officer shall specify in the
permit, granted under subsection (1) that the immigrant is
granted the permit –»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
The six purposes that follow are: as a passenger in transit, for medical treatment, as a visitor, for purposes of employment, for purposes of trade or business, and for any other purpose of a temporary nature. Study is not among them.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«extend the period specified in
the permit up to a maximum of three years from the date of
entry into Guyana of the immigrant to whom the permit»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
The ceiling runs from the date of entry rather than from the date of each extension, so it caps the whole stay and not each renewal.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«every person entering Guyana without a passport shall be
a passport.
deemed to be a prohibited immigrant unless he explains why
[2 of 1969]
he has no passport and establishes to the satisfaction of the
immigration officer his identity and national status.»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
The words set off on their own lines inside this quotation are the section's marginal note and the amending-Act references, which the publisher prints down the left-hand edge of the page; the extraction places them inline.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«is not in possession of sufficient
means to support himself and such of
his dependants as he shall bring with
him to Guyana»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
One of eight categories of prohibited immigrant. Paragraph (a) of the same list, which has not been amended since the Act of 1947, still bars a person who "is an idiot, or an epileptic, or of unsound mind, or mentally deficient, or deaf and dumb, or deaf and blind, or dumb or blind".
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«not be accepted as such under section 5 of the Act, unless it
bears a Guyanese consular visa valid for Guyana.»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
Clause 3 then disapplies clause 2 for the countries in the Order's own Schedule, for a Commonwealth country whose law admits Guyanese without a visa, for a passport the Minister exempts, and for a passport covered by a Visa Abolition Agreement in force. The Order's Schedule is from 1993 and is much shorter than the list the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes today.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«The following are ports of entry under section 7 –»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
The list that follows is closed, and the Act gives no other place of lawful entry. It names Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Springlands, Morawhanna and the Government Station at Lethem; the Cheddi Jagan International Airport; the village of Bartica; the Police Station at Orinduik; the Police Station at Good Hope; the airstrip at Omai; and the Moleson Creek wharf.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«the village of Bartica;
(d) the Police Station at Orinduik;
(e) the Police Station at Good Hope;
(f) the airstrip at Omai;
(g) the wharf known as the Moleson
Creek wharf situate at Moleson Creek.»Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«every alien in Guyana shall register with a registration
officer under this Act as an alien.»Sub-section (2) sets the time: "such alien shall register under this Act within three days, or such further time as may be allowed by a registration officer, after such alien enters Guyana". The Commissioner of Police is the Chief Registration Officer.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«which require an alien who enters Guyana to register under
the said Act, shall apply to –»As printed the clause says the registration duty "shall apply to" the two classes it then names - a United States citizen intending to stay up to three months, and anyone crossing a land frontier intending to stay up to fourteen days - while the Order is titled an Exemption Order and its own marginal note reads "Exemptions from section 5(2)". The operative words and the heading say opposite things. We reproduce the operative words.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«COUNTRIES WHOSE NATIONALS DO NOT REQUIRE VISAS TO ENTER GUYANA»A second list follows on the same page under the heading "COUNTRIES FOR WHICH GUYANESE DO NOT REQUIRE VISAS FOR ENTRY", dated 16 October 2025, which is shorter and differently qualified. Only the first is about entering Guyana.
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Publishes Guyana's visa policy: a numbered list of the countries whose nationals need no visa to enter, a second list of the countries Guyanese may enter without one, the visa application forms, and an advisory setting out the criteria and fees for visas issued on arrival to visitors, employees, students and business people. It is also the ministry that determines whether a person qualifies as a re-migrant, settler or returning student for the customs concession.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The two lists sit on one page under separate headings and are about opposite directions of travel; they overlap, they are dated differently - 17 July 2025 and 16 October 2025 - and they disagree on entries such as Haiti. Any capture that loses the headings merges them into one list, and a reading taken through an extraction service does exactly that. Read it with the headings intact or not at all. The visa-on-arrival advisory is undated on its face and gives periods the Immigration Act cannot produce - a five-year business visa against a three-year statutory ceiling - so it must be cited as the Ministry's practice and never as the law. The visa-exempt list is not an instrument: the statutory list is the Schedule to the Immigration (Passports) Order, which is much shorter and from 1993.
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«A maximum of two (2) Extensions of Stay will be granted. Each Extension
of Stay will be for a period of one (I) month.»The capital I where a figure 1 belongs is the publisher's.
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Publishes Guyana's visa policy: a numbered list of the countries whose nationals need no visa to enter, a second list of the countries Guyanese may enter without one, the visa application forms, and an advisory setting out the criteria and fees for visas issued on arrival to visitors, employees, students and business people. It is also the ministry that determines whether a person qualifies as a re-migrant, settler or returning student for the customs concession.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The two lists sit on one page under separate headings and are about opposite directions of travel; they overlap, they are dated differently - 17 July 2025 and 16 October 2025 - and they disagree on entries such as Haiti. Any capture that loses the headings merges them into one list, and a reading taken through an extraction service does exactly that. Read it with the headings intact or not at all. The visa-on-arrival advisory is undated on its face and gives periods the Immigration Act cannot produce - a five-year business visa against a three-year statutory ceiling - so it must be cited as the Ministry's practice and never as the law. The visa-exempt list is not an instrument: the statutory list is the Schedule to the Immigration (Passports) Order, which is much shorter and from 1993.
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«US$25.00 for visitors
For a period of one (1) month in the first instance, and an additional US$25.00 for each
Extension of Stay.»About this source
Publishes Guyana's visa policy: a numbered list of the countries whose nationals need no visa to enter, a second list of the countries Guyanese may enter without one, the visa application forms, and an advisory setting out the criteria and fees for visas issued on arrival to visitors, employees, students and business people. It is also the ministry that determines whether a person qualifies as a re-migrant, settler or returning student for the customs concession.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The two lists sit on one page under separate headings and are about opposite directions of travel; they overlap, they are dated differently - 17 July 2025 and 16 October 2025 - and they disagree on entries such as Haiti. Any capture that loses the headings merges them into one list, and a reading taken through an extraction service does exactly that. Read it with the headings intact or not at all. The visa-on-arrival advisory is undated on its face and gives periods the Immigration Act cannot produce - a five-year business visa against a three-year statutory ceiling - so it must be cited as the Ministry's practice and never as the law. The visa-exempt list is not an instrument: the statutory list is the Schedule to the Immigration (Passports) Order, which is much shorter and from 1993.
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Practical notes
The Immigration Act Chapter on the law portal is the revised edition showing the law as at 31 December 2012. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022, which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, but on the portal only the first three volumes have been replaced and Chapter 14:02 is not among them.
We found no instrument setting a fee for a permit under section 12. Every money figure here comes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advisory, which carries no date on its face; the file sits in the Ministry's April 2025 directory.
This record rests on sections 3, 5, 7 and 12 of the Immigration Act, the Immigration (Passports) Order and regulation 8 of the Immigration Regulations as printed in the 2012 revised edition, sections 5 and 12 of the Aliens (Immigration and Registration) Act with its 1948 exemption order, and two pages published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 14:02 of the Laws of Guyana
Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers, Guyana · consolidated to 2012-12-31
Known to be out of date. The last amendment worked into this Chapter predates 2013. Guyana completed a revision to 31 December 2022 which the Attorney General laid before the National Assembly in June 2026, and the law portal has not yet replaced this Chapter with it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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- consolidatesAliens (Immigration and Registration) Act, Chapter 14:03
Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers, Guyana · consolidated to 2012-12-31
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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- administersVisa Information
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana
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Publishes Guyana's visa policy: a numbered list of the countries whose nationals need no visa to enter, a second list of the countries Guyanese may enter without one, the visa application forms, and an advisory setting out the criteria and fees for visas issued on arrival to visitors, employees, students and business people. It is also the ministry that determines whether a person qualifies as a re-migrant, settler or returning student for the customs concession.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The two lists sit on one page under separate headings and are about opposite directions of travel; they overlap, they are dated differently - 17 July 2025 and 16 October 2025 - and they disagree on entries such as Haiti. Any capture that loses the headings merges them into one list, and a reading taken through an extraction service does exactly that. Read it with the headings intact or not at all. The visa-on-arrival advisory is undated on its face and gives periods the Immigration Act cannot produce - a five-year business visa against a three-year statutory ceiling - so it must be cited as the Ministry's practice and never as the law. The visa-exempt list is not an instrument: the statutory list is the Schedule to the Immigration (Passports) Order, which is much shorter and from 1993.
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- administersAdvisory: criteria for visas on arrival, and visa fees
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana
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Publishes Guyana's visa policy: a numbered list of the countries whose nationals need no visa to enter, a second list of the countries Guyanese may enter without one, the visa application forms, and an advisory setting out the criteria and fees for visas issued on arrival to visitors, employees, students and business people. It is also the ministry that determines whether a person qualifies as a re-migrant, settler or returning student for the customs concession.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The two lists sit on one page under separate headings and are about opposite directions of travel; they overlap, they are dated differently - 17 July 2025 and 16 October 2025 - and they disagree on entries such as Haiti. Any capture that loses the headings merges them into one list, and a reading taken through an extraction service does exactly that. Read it with the headings intact or not at all. The visa-on-arrival advisory is undated on its face and gives periods the Immigration Act cannot produce - a five-year business visa against a three-year statutory ceiling - so it must be cited as the Ministry's practice and never as the law. The visa-exempt list is not an instrument: the statutory list is the Schedule to the Immigration (Passports) Order, which is much shorter and from 1993.
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