Where you can go as a visitor if your passport is from Venezuela

The general rule it sits on

Costa Rica sorts every nationality into one of four entry groups, and the group decides both whether a visa is needed and how long the border officer may grant. The first group - most of western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and a long list besides - enters without a visa for up to 180 calendar days. The part that gets left out of most guides is that this stay is not extendable. An extension exists only for someone who was given less than ninety days at the border, and it can only take them up to ninety. The second group enters visa-free for thirty days, extendable to ninety. The third and fourth groups need a consular or a restricted visa obtained before travelling, and get thirty days, extendable to ninety.

The general rule it sits on

Three different Dominican authorities publish three different lengths for the same holiday. The migration law and its regulation both say sixty days, and the regulation says it in a single sentence that admits of no reading but one. The tax agency that sells the tourist card says thirty. The migration service, taking the thirty as its starting point, sells extensions in bands that run to a hundred and twenty days in total. Nobody has reconciled them, so a traveller plans around the smaller number and pays to get back to the larger one. The card itself costs ten dollars, is good for one entry, and since April 2018 has been built into the price of air tickets issued outside the country, which is why most arrivals never see it charged.

The general rule it sits on

A tourist is admitted for up to 90 days and can extend once by up to 180 further days, and South Americans start at 180 days with another 180 available - numbers that were rewritten on 14 July 2025 by a protected-areas law that also amended the migration statute. Most of the ministry's own pages still quote the old rule of 90 days within a year extendable by 90, so the published guidance and the statute disagree, and the statute is the one that governs. Most Western nationalities need no visa; a published ministry list names the nationalities that do.

The general rule it sits on

The Immigration Act gives an immigration officer two lengths and nothing in between: a permit of up to three months for most nationalities, and six months for a national of one of the thirteen countries in Part B of its Schedule I - the Commonwealth Caribbean plus Suriname and Montserrat, and without Haiti. Either can be extended, but only up to three years from the date of entry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs works to shorter numbers than the Act allows: a visa issued on arrival runs one month and may be extended twice by a month each, at US$25 a time. Which passports need a visa is published as a numbered list of 71 countries and territories, which is a real list rather than a search box; the trap is that the same page carries a second list, for where Guyanese may travel without a visa, and losing the headings turns the two into one. Separately, every alien aged sixteen or over who enters must register with the police within three days.

The general rule it sits on

Paraguay admits visitors as an estadia transitoria for up to 90 consecutive days, extendable once and for no longer than the period already granted. The number is per admission and the law sets no annual pool, which makes Paraguay more forgiving than Peru or Colombia, where days accumulate inside a 365-day window. The catch is in the second column of the migration directorate's own visa table: for most nationalities the waiver covers the visit only, and extending the stay, applying for residency or taking up any paid activity requires a consular visa obtained before you travel. Overstaying is a fine, currently six jornales, rather than a ban.

The general rule it sits on

Peru's migration law allows a tourist up to 183 calendar days, and the number is cumulative rather than per trip: the 365-day window inside which those days are counted starts at your first regular entry, so leaving and coming back does not reset it. Two things are widely misreported. The 183 days are a ceiling, not an entitlement - the officer grants a period set by your nationality, commonly 90 days. And since 2023 a shorter grant is extendable up to the 183-day ceiling, reversing the old rule that tourist stays could not be extended at all.

The general rule it sits on

The Vreemdelingenwet 1991 gives a visitor who needs no visa three months, and everyone else eight days unless a visa says otherwise. The Vreemdelingenbesluit 1995 then requires a valid passport carrying a transit visa, a travel visa for a stay of up to three months, or an authorisation for short stay for anything longer. The Act itself names no country: who needs a visa is a ministerial matter, and since 1 July 2022 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a unilateral waiver for tourism and family visits up to ninety days, with a named list of twenty-one countries it does not apply to. The waiver is not free. Every traveller it covers pays an entry fee of USD 50 or EUR 50, plus a USD 8 or EUR 8 service fee to the contractor that collects it, and pays it again on every entry. Holders of a CARICOM passport are among the ten groups exempt from the fee.