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Mercosur Associated States

The associated states of Mercosur, as Mercosur itself lists them. Panama is included here for the first time and Venezuela has been moved to the full members, where Mercosur puts it. This group asserts association with the bloc and nothing more. It is explicitly NOT a list of nationalities the Residence Agreement covers: the agreement names its parties individually, and Brazil, Bolivia and Chile each apply it to a different set of nationalities. Coverage is recorded per destination on that country's residency-regional-treaty override.

Where it actually bites

Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.

Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Sources1 · all accessed 2026-09-27
  • reports
    Países del MERCOSUR

    MERCOSUR (Secretaría)

    About this source

    The bloc's own institutional pages, and the only authority on who its member and associated states currently are - which is not the same question as who is party to the Residence Agreement.

    Standing: Reports, establishes nothing

    Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for treaty texts. Its document pages are stubs whose download links do not resolve, and its normative database refuses automated readers. Membership is all it establishes; whether an agreement reaches a given nationality in a given country is a matter for that country's own sources.

    We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source