Venezuelan Ancestry
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Uruguay on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Uruguay to Venezuela · Residency through ancestry
There is no residence category for descent. The catalogue of visas names twelve classes and none of them is granted because a grandparent or a parent was Venezuelan. What descent gives you is the nationality itself, directly: a child born abroad to a Venezuelan parent is Venezuelan by birth under the Constitution, on conditions that depend on whether the parent was Venezuelan by birth or by naturalisation. The nearest thing to an ancestry visa runs the other way - the family visa reaches the parents of a Venezuelan, not their adult children.
At a glance
- Residence route by descent
- None
The catalogue of visas in article 1 of Resolución Conjunta N° 364 is a closed list of twelve classes, quoted here at both ends, and none is granted on the strength of a Venezuelan ancestor. Descent in Venezuela is a question of nationality under article 32 of the Constitution rather than of residence.
- Nationality by descent
- Yes, under the Constitution
- Where one parent is Venezuelan by birth
- Residence in Venezuela, or a declaration of the wish to take the nationality
- Where one parent is Venezuelan by naturalisation
- Residence before 18 and a declaration before 25
- Where both parents are Venezuelan by birth
- Venezuelan by birth, with no further condition
Requirements
- For a child born abroad to a parent who is Venezuelan by birth: establish residence in Venezuela, or declare the wish to take Venezuelan nationality
- For a child born abroad to a parent who is Venezuelan by naturalisation: establish residence in Venezuela before turning eighteen and declare the wish to take Venezuelan nationality before turning twenty-five
- The declaration is registered in the civil registry of the district of the parents' last domicile in Venezuela
Country-level policy
The joint resolution that defines every class of Venezuelan visa was made in December 1999 by three ministries, and it says on its face which law it was made under: the Ley de Extranjeros and the Regulation of the Ley de Extranjeros. The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed the Ley de Extranjeros by name, and required the President to make a regulation of the new Act within sixty days of publication. The foreign ministry and the consulates still publish the 1999 catalogue of visas, visa by visa, with the same codes and in most places the same wording. We did not find a regulation made under the 2004 Act. That matters to a reader because it is why the two sets of rules do not line up: the 1999 text names ministries that no longer exist, lets a business visitor stay 180 days where the Act caps a non-migrant at 90 plus 90, and routes the investor through an authority that has been replaced.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Uruguay
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«3. Toda persona nacida en territorio extranjero, hijo o hija de padre venezolano por nacimiento o madre venezolana por nacimiento, siempre que establezcan su residencia en el territorio de la República o declaren su voluntad de acogerse a la nacionalidad venezolana.»Our translation - not official
Any person born in foreign territory, the son or daughter of a father Venezuelan by birth or a mother Venezuelan by birth, provided they establish their residence in the territory of the Republic or declare their wish to take Venezuelan nationality.
About this source
The OAS legal portal republishes the constitutions and some statutes of member states. It carries the Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990, printing United Kingdom S.I. 1979 No. 916 as amended by Act 21 of 1986 and Act 15 of 1988 - the only copy of the Vincentian Constitution with a text layer that we could reach, the House of Assembly's own copy being an imageless scan.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is a republisher and must never be cited for currency: the file is the 1990 edition, while Saint Vincent's own Acts now cite the Revised Edition 2009, in which chapter numbers have moved. The PDF is a two-up optical recognition of a printed book and its text layer carries recognition errors, so every quotation taken from it must be declared as a recognition and must be left with its errors intact. It must not be cited for any instrument other than the one it reproduces.
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«4. Toda persona nacida en territorio extranjero de padre venezolano por naturalización o madre venezolana por naturalización siempre que antes de cumplir dieciocho años de edad, establezca su residencia en el territorio de la República y antes de cumplir veinticinco años de edad declare su voluntad de acogerse a la nacionalidad venezolana.»Our translation - not official
Any person born in foreign territory to a father Venezuelan by naturalisation or a mother Venezuelan by naturalisation, provided that before turning eighteen years of age they establish their residence in the territory of the Republic and before turning twenty-five years of age declare their wish to take Venezuelan nationality.
About this source
The OAS legal portal republishes the constitutions and some statutes of member states. It carries the Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990, printing United Kingdom S.I. 1979 No. 916 as amended by Act 21 of 1986 and Act 15 of 1988 - the only copy of the Vincentian Constitution with a text layer that we could reach, the House of Assembly's own copy being an imageless scan.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is a republisher and must never be cited for currency: the file is the 1990 edition, while Saint Vincent's own Acts now cite the Revised Edition 2009, in which chapter numbers have moved. The PDF is a two-up optical recognition of a printed book and its text layer carries recognition errors, so every quotation taken from it must be declared as a recognition and must be left with its errors intact. It must not be cited for any instrument other than the one it reproduces.
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«Artículo 10. La declaración de voluntad de acogerse a la nacionalidad venezolana formulada por los hijos o hijas nacidos en el exterior, de padre o madre venezolanos por nacimiento o por naturalización, se hará conforme con lo dispuesto en el Reglamento de esta Ley y se inscribirá en el Registro Civil de la jurisdicción del último domicilio de sus padres en el territorio de la República.»Our translation - not official
The declaration of the wish to take Venezuelan nationality made by children born abroad to a father or mother Venezuelan by birth or by naturalisation shall be made in accordance with the Regulation of this Law and shall be registered in the Civil Registry of the district of their parents' last domicile in the territory of the Republic.
Taken from our own recognition of the gazette facsimile the National Assembly publishes, which has no text layer. The recognition drops accents in places and reorders the two columns of the page; the passage quoted here was checked against the constitutional article it repeats.
«Transeúnte Religioso (TR-REL) Transeúnte Familiar (TR-F) Transeúnte Reingreso (TR-RI) Transeúnte Laboral (TR-L). Viajero de Transito: Es el extranjero que cruza el territorio nacional para dirigirse a otro país.»Our translation - not official
Transient Religious (TR-REL), Transient Family Member (TR-F), Transient Re-entry (TR-RI), Transient Labour (TR-L). Transit Traveller: a foreigner who crosses the national territory to travel to another country.
The end of the closed list of visa classes. Taken with the earlier part of the article it runs to twelve classes, and none of them is granted on the basis of a Venezuelan ancestor.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
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«Se otorgará al cónyuge del venezolano(a), siempre que el matrimonio se hubiere celebrado en el extranjero e inscrito ante la Oficina Consular venezolana, a los hijos menores de 18 años de edad no emancipados, a los progenitores y padres políticos, previa comprobación fehaciente del vínculo familiar.»Our translation - not official
Granted to the spouse of a Venezuelan, provided the marriage was celebrated abroad and registered at the Venezuelan Consular Office, to unemancipated children under 18 years of age, and to parents and parents-in-law, on reliable proof of the family tie.
The family visa reaches the parents of a Venezuelan and their children under 18. An adult child of a Venezuelan is not in it, and would rely on the constitutional route to the nationality instead.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
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Practical notes
That there is no descent-based residence route is read off the resolution's own list of visa classes in article 1, which we read in full, and off the foreign ministry's catalogue of the visas it issues. Neither contains one.
The declaration and its procedure are referred by the nationality law to a regulation of that law. We did not find that regulation.
- reportsConstitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria N° 36.860 de 30 de diciembre de 1999
Organization of American States - Department of International Law · consolidated to 1999-12-30
About this source
The OAS legal portal republishes the constitutions and some statutes of member states. It carries the Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990, printing United Kingdom S.I. 1979 No. 916 as amended by Act 21 of 1986 and Act 15 of 1988 - the only copy of the Vincentian Constitution with a text layer that we could reach, the House of Assembly's own copy being an imageless scan.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is a republisher and must never be cited for currency: the file is the 1990 edition, while Saint Vincent's own Acts now cite the Revised Edition 2009, in which chapter numbers have moved. The PDF is a two-up optical recognition of a printed book and its text layer carries recognition errors, so every quotation taken from it must be declared as a recognition and must be left with its errors intact. It must not be cited for any instrument other than the one it reproduces.
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- adjudicatesConstitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria N° 5.453 de 24 de marzo de 2000
Tribunal Supremo de Justicia · consolidated to 2000-03-24
About this source
Venezuela's supreme court. Its historical site carries a legislation section with the full text of the Constitution as reprinted in Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria N° 5.453 of 24 March 2000, and the texts of the laws governing the judiciary. It is used here to corroborate the constitutional articles quoted from the OAS copy, which is the only clean text layer we could reach.
Standing: Decides what it means
Cannot be cited for: Its legislation section holds only judiciary-related statutes and the Constitution; there is no migration, tax or customs law there, and the directory itself answers 403 while leaves.shtml is a 404. Its server sends an incomplete certificate chain and is unreachable without supplying the missing GoDaddy intermediate. It cannot carry a long quotation: the extraction service renders the page with a literal line-break tag every few words, and a direct fetch mis-decodes its ISO-8859-1 encoding and destroys every accent, which is exactly the failure the quote check exists to catch. Quote short fragments that fall between breaks, or quote elsewhere and corroborate here.
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- reportsNormas del Procedimiento para la Expedición de Visado, Resolución Conjunta N° 364 / 165 / 0530, Gaceta Oficial N° 5.427 Extraordinario de 5 de enero de 2000
Justia Venezuela
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
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- issuesLey de Nacionalidad y Ciudadanía, Gaceta Oficial N° 37.971 de 1 de julio de 2004
Asamblea Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela
About this source
Venezuela's legislature, and the only reachable index of Venezuelan law. Its database of laws in force gives, for each instrument, the Gaceta Oficial number and date, the vacatio legis, what it repealed, a condition flag reading 'Vigencia Total', and a PDF of the gazette page. It carries decretos constituyentes and decretos-leyes as well as its own Acts, so the 2015 income tax law, the 2020 Tax Code and the 2020 customs law are all here. With the Imprenta Nacional's gazette service unreachable, this is the nearest thing to the publisher of record that can be read.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its PDFs are scans with no text layer - OmniPage output, jbig2 images, pdftotext returns nothing - so anything quoted from them is our own recognition and must carry extractMethod 'ocr'. The recognition reads the gazette's two columns out of order, drops article headings and whole numerals, and on at least one law invents text outright: the Ley Orgánica de Aduanas comes back with Chinese characters spliced into Spanish clauses. A negative claim must never rest on a reading taken from here. It must not be cited for the law as consolidated either: each PDF is one gazette issue, and where that issue reprints a single text the reprint date is the date of the last amendment, not a sweep. There is no working site search and no working pagination - every listing URL with a query string returns an empty response to both Firecrawl and a direct fetch - so an instrument can only be found by guessing its slug, and failing to find one here is not evidence that it does not exist.
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- administersTrámites y Servicios Consulares - Visa
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
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