Visiting Venezuela as a Tourist
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 · Visiting as a tourist
A tourist visa is valid for a year with multiple entries and allows ninety days of stay, which the interior ministry may extend once by the same period. The passport must have at least six months left. The instrument that sets this out is a joint resolution of three ministries made in December 1999; the foreign ministry's own page for the tourist visa asks for several things the resolution does not - a medical certificate issued by the health authority of your country, a hotel booking or a notarised letter of invitation, and a return ticket. Which nationalities need no visa is not something we could read in any instrument: the resolution exempts holders of a tourist card issued to nationals of beneficiary countries and nowhere says which countries those are.
At a glance
- Tourist visa validity
- One year, multiple entries
- Stay allowed
- Up to 90 days per entry
- Extension
- One further period of the same length, at the interior ministry's discretion
- Passport validity
- At least six months
- Transit visa
- 72 hours, single entry
Two entries of 72 hours each where the confirmed ticket shows you will transit Venezuela again on the way home.
- Tourist card (DEX-2)
- 90 days, single entry, no extension
For nationals of the beneficiary countries. The resolution does not say which countries those are, and we found no instrument that lists them.
- Consular fee
- Not published centrally
The foreign ministry says the amount must be asked of the embassy or consulate.
Requirements
- A passport valid for at least six months
- Evidence that you live somewhere else - the consular officer has to be satisfied you do not intend to migrate, and may ask for a bank letter, an employment letter, property or company records or family ties
- An interview with the consular officer
- From the foreign ministry's own list: a medical certificate from the health authority of your country, two passport photographs, a hotel booking or a notarised letter of invitation, a copy of your return or onward ticket, and the consular fee
- To extend inside the country: an application to the migration service with a letter of motives addressed to its Director General, an onward ticket and this year's entry and exit stamps
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 2º- Todo extranjero que desee ingresar al país deberá estar provisto de un pasaporte vigente por un mínimo de seis (6) meses otorgado por autoridad competente y solicitar el visado correspondiente ante la Sección Consular de Embajada u Oficina Consular de la República de Venezuela.»Our translation - not official
Every foreigner wishing to enter the country must hold a passport valid for a minimum of six months issued by a competent authority, and must apply for the corresponding visa at the Consular Section of an Embassy or Consular Office of the Republic of Venezuela.
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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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«Artículo 4º- Visado Turista (T): Se otorgará a quien desee ingresar al país con fines de recreo, salud o actividades, que no involucre remuneración o lucro, tales como: culturales; artísticas; científicas; deportivas; de contacto con empresas radicadas en el país o con personas del sector público o privado; o periodística para eventos especiales.»Our translation - not official
Tourist visa (T): granted to anyone wishing to enter the country for recreation, health or activities that do not involve pay or profit, such as cultural, artistic, scientific or sporting activities, contact with companies established in the country or with people in the public or private sector, or journalism for special events.
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 solicitante deberá demostrar ante el funcionario consular su intención de no migrar, a través de documento que acredite su residencia en un país extranjero. Asimismo, a criterio del funcionario consular se exigirá la exhibición de alguno de los siguientes documentos: carta bancaria, carta de trabajo, de propiedad inmobiliaria, comerciales, empresariales, mercantiles o industriales, nexos familiares u otro que compruebe la condición económica, el arraigo o intereses que permita presumir que el solicitante tiene intenciones de retornar a su país de origen o de residencia. El funcionario consular entrevistará al solicitante a los fines de comprobar la veracidad de la información.»Our translation - not official
The applicant must show the consular officer an intention not to migrate, by means of a document proving residence in a foreign country. The consular officer may also require one of the following: a bank letter, an employment letter, records of real property or of commercial, business or industrial interests, family ties, or anything else proving the economic position, roots or interests that allow it to be presumed that the applicant intends to return to the country of origin or residence. The consular officer will interview the applicant to check that the information is true.
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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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«Artículo 6º- El Visado de Turista se otorgará con una vigencia de un (1) año, múltiples entradas, y permitirá permanecer en el país por un período de hasta noventa (90) días, prorrogable por igual lapso a juicio del Ministerio del Interior y Justicia.»Our translation - not official
The tourist visa is granted with a validity of one (1) year, multiple entries, and allows a stay in the country of up to ninety (90) days, extendable by the same period at the discretion of the Ministry of the Interior and Justice.
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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«Se exceptuarán de esta Resolución los turistas nacionales y los pasajeros de embarcaciones deportivas, que sean nacionales de los países beneficiarios de la Tarjeta de Turismo DEX-2, la cual, será otorgada por las Secciones Consulares de Embajadas, Oficinas Consulares y empresas transportadoras de pasajeros autorizadas por la Corporación de Turismo de Venezuela. Se emite por noventa (90) días improrrogables, una sola entrada.»Our translation - not official
Exempted from this Resolution are tourists and passengers on sporting vessels who are nationals of the countries benefiting from the DEX-2 Tourist Card, which is issued by the Consular Sections of Embassies, Consular Offices and passenger transport companies authorised by the Venezuelan Tourism Corporation. It is issued for ninety (90) days, not extendable, single entry.
This is the whole of what the resolution says about visa-free entry. It names no country, and we found no instrument that lists the beneficiaries.
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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«El visado Viajero de Tránsito se otorgará por setenta y dos (72) horas, una sola entrada, a menos que el pasaje confirmado indique que al regreso a su país de origen, de domicilio o residencia deberá hacer tránsito nuevamente en Venezuela, en tal caso, se otorgará por dos entradas y se podrá permanecer setenta y dos (72) horas, por cada entrada.»Our translation - not official
The transit traveller visa is granted for seventy-two (72) hours, single entry, unless the confirmed ticket shows that on the return to the country of origin, domicile or residence the traveller must transit Venezuela again, in which case it is granted for two entries and a stay of seventy-two (72) hours per entry is allowed.
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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
«Serán considerados no migrantes, los que ingresen al territorio de la República con el propósito de permanecer por un tiempo limitado de noventa (90) días, sin ánimo de fijar en él su domicilio permanente ni el de su familia y, por lo tanto, no podrán ejercer actividades que involucren remuneración o lucro. Transcurrido este lapso, podrá ser prorrogado hasta por noventa (90) días más.»Our translation - not official
Those who enter the territory of the Republic intending to stay for a limited period of ninety (90) days, without intending to establish their permanent domicile or that of their family there, shall be considered non-migrants and may therefore not carry on activities involving pay or profit. Once that period has run, it may be extended by up to ninety (90) days more.
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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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«Los extranjeros y extranjeras, a los fines de su admisión, ingreso, reingreso y permanencia en el territorio de la República, deben estar provistos de un pasaporte válido y vigente, con el respectivo visado u otro documento que autorice su ingreso o permanencia en el»Our translation - not official
For their admission, entry, re-entry and stay in the territory of the Republic, foreigners must hold a valid and current passport with the corresponding visa or another document authorising their entry or stay.
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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«Certificado médico otorgado por la autoridad sanitaria del país de origen»Our translation - not official
Medical certificate issued by the health authority of the country of origin
The resolution's own list of tourist requirements, article 5, says nothing about a medical certificate, a hotel booking or a ticket. All three appear on the foreign ministry's page.
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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«Reserva de hotel o carta de invitación notariada»Our translation - not official
Hotel booking or notarised letter of invitation
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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«No poseer más de 90 días dentro del Territorio Nacional.»Our translation - not official
Not to hold more than 90 days inside the national territory.
The migration service publishes its extension requirements as an accordion, and the capture pairs one heading with the wrong list. This line appears under both the tourist extension and the resident extension headings, and the condition is quoted here for that reason rather than attributed to one of them alone.
Read it at the sourceAbout 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.
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Practical notes
The visa classes themselves come from a joint resolution made in December 1999 under the Ley de Extranjeros of 1937 and its regulation. The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed that Act. The foreign ministry and the consulates still publish the 1999 catalogue, and we found no later instrument replacing it.
Nothing we read sets out which nationalities may enter without a visa. The only visa-free route named anywhere in the resolution is the DEX-2 tourist card for nationals of unnamed beneficiary countries. We looked at the resolution in full, at the foreign ministry's consular pages, at the migration service's own pages and at the Act itself.
The foreign ministry says the consular fee has to be asked of the particular embassy or consulate, so there is no single published amount.
- 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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- reportsLey de Extranjería y Migración, Gaceta Oficial N° 37.944 de 24 de mayo de 2004
Organization of American States - Department of International Law
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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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- administersVisa de Turista (T)
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
- administersVisa de Tránsito (V-T)
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.
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- issuesAsamblea Nacional - Ley de Extranjería y Migración
Asamblea Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela
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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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