Studying in Venezuela
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Colombia 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 Colombia to Venezuela · Residency as a student
The student visa, TR-E, covers higher technical or university study, specialisation and internships in your field. It runs a year with multiple entries and a year of stay, and is extended at the interior ministry's discretion on proof that the studies continue. The letter that matters is from the institution: it has to say what financial means you will have in Venezuela. The student visa is not on the list of visas that lead to Resident status.
At a glance
- Visa validity and stay
- One year, multiple entries, one year of stay
- Extension
- At the interior ministry's discretion, on proof the studies continue
- Notice for the extension
- At least two months
From the foreign ministry's page. The resolution sets no notice period.
- Does it lead to Resident status
- No
- Covers
- Higher technical or university study, specialisation, and internships in your field
Requirements
- A letter of application from the institution sponsoring you, stating the financial means you will have in Venezuela
- A certificate of acceptance from the educational institution, or from the company where the internship will be done
- Your qualifications or certificates of study
- A passport valid for at least six months, two passport photographs, a medical certificate from the health authority of your country and the consular fee
- To extend: proof that the studies continue - the foreign ministry asks for the application at least two months in advance
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 The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed the Ley de Extranjeros by name, and required the President to make a regulation of the new Act within sixty days of publication.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 Colombia
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
«Artículo 23°- Transeúnte Estudiante (TR-E) Se otorgará a personas no migrantes, que deseen ingresar al país para realizar estudios superiores técnicos o universitarios, de especialización o para realizar pasantías en su especialidad.»Our translation - not official
Transient Student (TR-E): granted to non-migrants who wish to enter the country to carry out higher technical or university study, specialisation, or internships in their field.
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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«El interesado deberá presentar: Carta de solicitud de la institución que lo avala, indicando los medios económicos de que dispondrá el estudiante en Venezuela; constancia de aceptación del instituto educativo donde realizará los estudios o de la empresa donde efectuará la pasantía; exhibición de títulos y/o constancias de estudios.»Our translation - not official
The applicant must present: a letter of application from the institution sponsoring them, stating the financial means the student will have in Venezuela; a certificate of acceptance from the educational institution where the studies will be done or from the company where the internship will be done; and their qualifications and/or certificates of study.
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.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 25º- El visado Transeúnte Estudiante se otorgará con una vigencia de un (1) año, múltiples entradas, con igual término de permanencia, y podrá ser prorrogado a juicio del Ministerio del Interior y Justicia, previa constancia de continuación de estudios.»Our translation - not official
The Transient Student visa is granted with a validity of one (1) year, multiple entries, with an equal period of stay, and may be extended at the discretion of the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, on production of proof that the studies continue.
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.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 40°- El extranjero que hubiere permanecido un mínimo de un año ininterrumpido en el territorio de la República con Visa de Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I); Transeúnte Familiar Venezolano (TR-FV); Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE); Transeúnte Empleado Doméstico (TR-ED); Transeúnte Religioso (TR-REL) o Transeúnte Laboral (TR-L) y correspondiente visado familiar, el Ministerio del Interior y Justicia, le podrá otorgar, si lo solicitare, la condición de Residente, que será renovada cada cinco (5) años.»Our translation - not official
A foreigner who has stayed a minimum of one uninterrupted year in the territory of the Republic on a Transient Investor (TR-I), Venezuelan Family Member (TR-FV), Transient Person of Independent Means (TR-RE), Transient Domestic Employee (TR-ED), Transient Religious (TR-REL) or Transient Labour (TR-L) visa and the corresponding family visa may, on application, be granted Resident status by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, renewable every five (5) years.
This is the whole of the list. The business visa and the entrepreneur/industrialist visa are not on it, so neither of those two leads to residence by this route.
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.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«La prórroga deberá ser solicitada al Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Interiores, Justicia y Paz con al menos dos (2) meses de antelación.»Our translation - not official
The extension must be applied for to the Ministry of Popular Power for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace at least two (2) months in advance.
The resolution sets no notice period for the student extension. This two-month requirement is the ministry's.
Read it at the sourceAbout 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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Practical notes
That the student visa does not lead to Resident status is read off the closed list in the resolution's article 40, which names six visas and not that one.
- 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.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
- administersVisa de Transeúnte Estudiante (TR-E)
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.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersSaime - Extranjería: requisitos de renovación y prórroga
Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería
About this source
The migration service, under the interior ministry. It decides everything that happens after arrival: the extension of a stay, the renewal of a transient visa, the change to Resident status, the foreigner's identity card and the migration record. Its extranjería pages are the only published statement of what an in-country renewal requires, and they are quoted here for the renewal conditions that no instrument states.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It applies the rules and does not make them, and its pages add conditions the instrument does not contain. Its extranjería page is a JavaScript accordion: the capture separates headings from their lists and at least one heading is paired with the wrong requirements, so a line from it may be quoted for itself but must not be attributed to a heading without a second reading. The Extranjería tile on its own home page links to an address the site answers with its own not-found page. It publishes no fee amounts and no visa-exempt nationality list.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source