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Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Internationale Handel en Samenwerking (Suriname)

Applies the rule

The ministry responsible for visas, consular affairs and the PSA status. Its page on travelling to Suriname is the only published statement of the unilateral visa waiver in force since 1 July 2022, of the twenty-one nationalities excluded from it since 1 May 2023, of the entry fee and its exempt groups, and of the two land border posts at which the fee can be paid in cash. It also issues the PSA document under the Wet PSA.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

gov.sr/ministeries/ministerie-van-buitenlandse-zaken-internationale-handel-samenwerking

Cannot be cited for

Everything on the travel page is published as a measure, not as an instrument: there is no Staatsblad reference for the waiver, for the exclusion list or for the entry fee, and we found none in the National Assembly's collections. The two dates on the page are different - the waiver from 1 July 2022, the exclusion list from 1 May 2023 - so the list is a later narrowing rather than part of the original measure, and a reader has no way to tell when either last moved. The ninety days it states is not a period the Vreemdelingenwet uses. Its list of land payment points is the only published list of Surinamese border crossings we found, and it is a list of places to pay a charge rather than the ministerial designation of doorlaatposten that article 3 of the Vreemdelingenbesluit calls for; Brazil, with which Suriname shares a land frontier, is not on it. The entry fee is collected by a commercial contractor whose own site answers 403.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

Undated pages revised without notice. The waiver has already been narrowed once, ten months after it was introduced.

Re-check triggers

any change to the list of nationalities excluded from the visa waiver · any change to the entry fee, its exempt groups or where it may be paid · a change of the contractor collecting the fee · publication of the instrument behind the waiver or the fee

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