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Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración

Issues the instrument

Guatemala's migration institute. It issues the residence, visa and tariff rulebooks, decides applications including consulted visas, and runs a field-verification unit. It also hosts the Código de Migración, which Congress issues and it does not.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

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Cannot be cited for

It must not be cited for the classification of countries into visa categories: the institute publishes that list only as an image, and nothing text-bearing on its sites carries it. Nor for the fee actually payable, since the instrument sets dollars and a separate quarterly resolution sets the exchange rate. Nor, specifically, is its own tariff page a statement of the tariff in force - read on the same day as the instrument it reproduces, it omits the Central American rate for permanent residence entirely. And not for tax, labour or traffic rules, which belong to other bodies.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Irregular and burst-shaped: nothing moved between 2016 and 2023, then a tariff, then three complete rulebooks in 2025 and a tariff reform in October 2025.

Re-check triggers

any new Acuerdo de Autoridad Migratoria Nacional · any IGM acuerdo from the Director General · the quarterly resolution fixing the quetzal price of a dollar tariff · a change to the A/B/C country classification

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