One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 9 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 23 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.
ArgentinaVerified with official sourceStable2026-09-21Mercosur Residency by Nationality - Argentina Publishes Its Own List, and Panama Is Not on It
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
By default this route does not exist for a given applicant: it is open only to nationals of Mercosur member and associated states. If that is you, the conditions are set out below - and they are notably lighter than any other route into Argentina.
BoliviaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-27Andean Migration Statute - Two Years to Permanent Residence
reaches you through Andean Community
The general rule it sits on
Bolivia is in both South American blocs at once - a full member of the Andean Community and, since 2024, a full member of Mercosur - and it runs a separate residence route for each. Both give two years of temporary residence converting into permanent residence, and both cost 450 UFV at each stage, against 2510 UFV for ordinary permanent residence after three years. Which one is open to you depends on your nationality, and the lists are narrower than the phrase "Mercosur associated state" suggests: the migration directorate publishes the Mercosur route for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay only.
BrazilVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-27Associated States: Chile Is In the Signed Text, the Others Are Not
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
Brazil is one of the six states that signed the Mercosur Residence Agreement in Brasilia in 2002, and the agreement has bound Brazil since 28 July 2009. It gives a national of a party a two-year residence on documents alone - identity, birth certificate, police certificates and a fee - with no income test at that stage, and it works from inside Brazil whatever migratory status you arrived in, waiving the fines that would otherwise apply. Proof of lawful means of subsistence is asked for only at the second stage, when the two years are converted into permanent residence, and that application has to be made in the ninety days before the temporary permit expires. The agreement's own definition of a party is broader than the trade bloc's: it says a party is a member state or an associated country of Mercosur, so full membership is not the test.
ChileVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-21Associated States: Chile's Treaty Residency Does Not Reach You
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
By default this route does not exist for a given applicant: Chile's migration service opens it to nationals of five countries only - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. If you hold one of those nationalities, see the origin-specific entry below; the requirements are the lightest of any Chilean residence permit. If you do not, the fact that your country is an associated state of Mercosur does not help here, which is where Chile parts company with Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia.
EcuadorVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-21Mercosur Residency for Associated States - Only Where the Agreement Was Ratified
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
Andean Migration Statute - Permanent Residence for Free
reaches you through Andean Community
The general rule it sits on
Ecuador is unusual in operating several parallel treaty routes at once. The migration law creates a general category, residente por convenio, for anyone entering under a visa set by an international instrument Ecuador is party to, and the ministry's catalogue then runs separate procedures for the Mercosur Residence Agreement, for the Andean Migration Statute, and for the bilateral migration statute with Venezuela. The Andean route is the cheapest of all: the grant itself is free. Whichever instrument applies, its own terms govern - including the proof of means, which the ministry's rules expressly hand back to the treaty.
ParaguayVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-21Associated States: Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador Only
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
Nationals of eight South American countries can use the Mercosur Residence Agreement, which Paraguay approved as Ley N° 3565/08, instead of the general route. It is a shorter list of documents - no consular visa, no Interpol certificate, no declaration of profession - and a lower fee. The trade-off is a deadline: the Mercosur temporary residency lasts two years and is expressly not renewable, and the application to convert it into permanent residency has to be filed in the ninety days before it expires, on pain of losing the right to continue under the Agreement at all. Economic solvency is tested at the permanent stage here exactly as it is on the general route.
PeruVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-21Mercosur Residency for Associated States - Partial Coverage
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
By default this route does not exist for a given applicant: it is open only to nationals of countries with which Peru has an agreement providing for residence. For South Americans that agreement is the Mercosur residence agreement, and it is by a distance the lightest way into Peru - identity, a clean record and, at the permanent stage, proof of lawful means. Two years of temporary residence come first, and the application for the indefinite stage has to be made in the ninety days before it expires. See the origin-specific entries below for who qualifies.
UruguayVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-09-20Mercosur Temporary Residency - Uruguay's Own List, Which Leaves Panama Out
reaches you through Mercosur Associated States
The general rule it sits on
By default this route does not exist for a given applicant: it is open only to nationals of Mercosur member and associated states, as listed by Uruguay's own migration directorate. See the origin-specific entry below for what applies if you qualify.
VenezuelaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-06Andean Community Nationals: The Andean Statute Does Not Reach Venezuela
reaches you through Andean Community
The general rule it sits on
Nothing in the Venezuelan instruments we could read gives a South American national a residence route of their own. Venezuela is a full member of Mercosur whose membership is suspended in all the rights and obligations of a member state, and it is not a member of the Andean Community, whose own migration statute lists its members as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The catalogue of visas names twelve classes and not one of them is defined by nationality. What the Venezuelan instruments do contain are saving clauses: the Act applies without prejudice to treaties and integration agreements, entry requirements give way to conventions the Republic has signed, and one visa - the entrepreneur's - excepts nationals of countries Venezuela has agreements with, without naming any.
Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Colombia differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.
Moving to Antigua and Barbuda Under the OECS or CARICOM
CARICOM Movement into Barbados: the Skills Certificate, and the Protocol That Has No Statute
CARICOM Free Movement into Belize
No Central American Free Movement, and the Numbers Prove It
No Treaty Route to Residence
Moving to Dominica Under the OECS, CARICOM or Full Free Movement
No Free Movement: the Caribbean Country Outside the Caribbean Scheme
Central Americans: Free Movement on an Identity Card, and a Shorter Road to Everything Else
Moving to Grenada Under CARICOM or the OECS
The Central American Route Into Guatemala
CARICOM Rights in Guyana: Two Acts, Both Commenced, Both Wired Into the Immigration Act
CARICOM and Haiti: Three Member States Name It in Their Schedules, Four Do Not, and Haiti Names Nobody
CA-4 Moves You Around the Region; It Does Not Let You Settle
Moving to Jamaica from the Caribbean Community
Regional and Treaty Routes to Residence
CA-4 and Central American Residence in Nicaragua
Panama Has No Bloc Residence Route
Moving to Saint Kitts and Nevis Under CARICOM or the OECS
Eastern Caribbean and Caribbean Community rights in Saint Lucia
Moving to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Under CARICOM, the OECS or Full Free Movement
CARICOM Rights in Suriname: the Line Is Drawn at the Labour Market, Not at the Border
CARICOM and The Bahamas: a Member State With No Free Movement Law At All
CARICOM Movement into Trinidad and Tobago: Who Issued the Certificate Decides
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
Belize
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
The Bahamas
Trinidad and Tobago