Visiting as a tourist, country by country

Entering Antigua and Barbuda as a Visitor

Six months, and it is the statute that says so rather than an officer. The Immigration and Passport Act 2014 defines a bona fide visitor as a person arriving for a period of not more than six months, and section 24 requires the visitor to hold an onward ticket, to take no gainful occupation, to behave and to be able to maintain themselves and their dependants throughout. Beyond that the Act splits travellers into classes: a citizen of any member state of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States gets six months as of right, a citizen of an OECS Protocol state enters with no limit on time at all, a national of a CARICOM member state named in Schedule 1 gets six months, and an EU service provider gets a period that depends on what kind of service provider they are. An extension is a separate application to the Chief Immigration Officer, and since 2023 a visitor who intends to stay on for work, study, marriage or retirement must formally change status instead.

Maximum stay as a visitor

6 months

Extension of time

Up to 90 days

Entry for a citizen of an OECS member state

6 months as of right

Entry for a citizen of an OECS Protocol state

No limit as to time

Entry for a CARICOM national

6 months

Entry for an EU business visitor

90 days in any twelve-month period

Change of status fee

XCD 1,500 for CS-1 or CS-2

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Entering Argentina as a Tourist

Argentina admits tourists for up to three months, extendable once by a similar period. Since Decree 366/2025 entry itself carries two conditions that did not exist before: a sworn declaration of why you are coming, and health insurance covering your medical needs. Whether you need a visa at all depends on your nationality.

Authorised stay

Up to 3 months

Extension window

The 10 days before expiry

Once expired

Cannot be extended

Late but voluntary, within 30 days

50% surcharge on the fee

Extension fee

Tourists are excluded from the transitoria fee line

Habilitacion de salida

20 UMSM Mercosur, 40 UMSM extra-Mercosur

Health insurance at entry

Requiredas of 2025-05-29

Entering Barbados as a Visitor

Barbados sorts arrivals into two lists in the Second Schedule to the Immigration Act. A visitor belongs to Part II, with passengers in transit and people entering for medical treatment, and an immigration officer may permit any period up to six months on whatever conditions the officer thinks fit. Part I is the longer-stay list - students, people entering for employment, trade or business, diplomats and anyone else the Minister approves - and there the ceiling is three years. Extending a permit is not a renewal at a counter: the holder applies to the Chief Immigration Officer in the prescribed form and may be made to report in person and submit to an examination under the Act even though they are already in Barbados. Whether a visa is needed first is set out in one table published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs covering every country, and the fee is charged in United States dollars.

Longest period a visitor may be given

6 months

Longest period for a student or someone entering for a purpose the Minister approves

3 years in the first instance

Entry visa, single entry

US$107.00

Entry visa, multiple entry

US$211.00

Visa processing time the Department states

THREE (3) WEEKS

Date of the visa table the Ministry publishes

Revised in 2022

Yellow fever certificate

Required for travellers over one year of age coming from infected areas

Entering Belize as a Visitor

Belize's Immigration Act sets the visitor's permit at up to six months, and lets the Director extend it by up to six months more - a statutory ceiling of twelve months. The Immigration Department works to a much shorter number: it tells travellers that entry buys thirty days, and sells thirty-day extensions at BZ$200 each. Both statements are in front of you here, because the gap between them is the single most useful thing to know before you plan a long stay. Whether you need a visa in the first place is published by the Department as a search box rather than a list, so we do not reproduce it; what the Department does state in plain text is that a multiple-entry United States or Canadian visa, a United States or Canadian permanent residence card, or a multiple-entry Schengen visa, each stands in for a Belize visa on a visit of up to thirty days.

Visitor's permit in the Act

Up to six months

Extension in the Act

Further periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate

Period the Immigration Department says a visa buys

30 days from date of entryas of 2026-10-05

Visitor's permit extension granted by the Department

30 days

Extension fee

BZ$200.00

Visa exemption for US, Canadian and Schengen document holders

Visits not exceeding 30 days

Employment on a visitor's permit

Not permitted without the Minister's written permission

Visiting Bolivia as a Tourist

Bolivia sorts nationalities into three groups. The first needs no tourist visa and is admitted on a national identity document or a passport. The second needs a visa. The third needs a visa that a consulate may only issue after the migration directorate has checked the file. A tourist visa is granted for 30 days, and inside Bolivia it can be extended by up to 60 more; but the regulation also caps a tourist at 90 calendar days a year, which is the number that decides how long you can actually stay. Bolivia does not publish which countries sit in which group.

Tourist visa validity

30 calendar days

Extensions inside Bolivia

Two further periods, up to 60 days in total

Annual ceiling

90 calendar days a year

Group I nationalities

No tourist visa

Group III nationalities

Visa only after the migration directorate verifies the file

Consular tourist visa fee

USD 50as of 2026-09-27

Fee to obtain the stay permit inside Bolivia

250 UFV for up to 30 daysas of 2026-09-27

Transit

15 days, 50 UFV

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Entering Brazil as a Visitor

A visit visa, or a waiver where your nationality has one, buys up to 90 days, which the Federal Police may extend by up to 90 more. The ceiling is 180 days in a migratory year, and the regulation defines a migratory year as twelve months from your own first entry, so the clock is personal rather than a calendar. Two details are usually lost. The extension is available only to nationals of countries that give Brazilians the same treatment, so the second 90 days is not a general right. And the foreign ministry's own visa table marks many European nationalities with an asterisk meaning a maximum of 90 days in any 180 - stricter than the decree, and the number actually applied at the border. Unlike most of its neighbours, Brazil lets a visitor apply for residency without leaving.

Stay granted

Up to 90 days

Extension

Up to 90 further days, granted by the Federal Police

Ceiling

180 days per migratory year

Migratory year

Twelve months from the visitor's first entry

United States, Canada and Australia

Visa required since 10 April 2025

Many European nationalities

Maximum 90 days of stay per 180 days

Paid work on a visit

Prohibited

Switching to residency

Allowed from inside Brazil, by request and registration

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Entering Chile on a Permanencia Transitoria

Chile admits visitors on a permiso de permanencia transitoria of up to 90 days, extendable once by a further 90 for a flat USD 100. The permit is a statement about intention as much as about time: it is granted to people who arrive with no intention of settling, and Chile enforces that reading by refusing, as a rule, to let anyone convert it into residency from inside the country. Residence applications are filed from abroad. Most nationalities need no visa in advance; some do, and the list is held by the foreign ministry rather than by the migration service.

Authorised stay

Up to 90 days

Extension

Up to 90 more days, once only

Extension fee

USD 100, paid in pesos

Ceiling on the permit

Never beyond the passport's expiry

Paid work

Not permitted

Switching to residency from inside Chile

Not permitted, apart from a short list of exceptions

Proof of stay

Tarjeta Única Migratoria, issued by the PDI on arrival

Visa list held by

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

Entering Colombia as a Tourist

Ninety days, extendable by ninety, and then a hard stop: 180 days in any 365 is the ceiling and it cannot be extended past it. The days need not be consecutive, so the limit follows you across separate trips. Two things are required that travellers often do not expect - a health policy covering the whole stay, and a return ticket you must be able to show at the border.

Initial stay

90 days

Extension

A further 90 calendar days

Hard ceiling

180 days per 365, continuous or not

Health policy

Required, covering the whole stay

Exit ticket

Checked at the border

Work

Not permitted

Visiting Costa Rica: 180 Days That Cannot Be Extended

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.

Maximum stay, first entry group

180 calendar daysas of 2025-11-17

Can that stay be extended?

No - only a stay of under 90 days can be topped up, and only to 90

Maximum stay, second entry group

30 calendar days, extendable to a total of 90

Maximum stay, third and fourth entry groups

30 calendar days, extendable to 90

Extension fee

US$100

Proof of funds at the border

US$100 per month or part-month of authorised stay

Passport validity, first entry group

1 day

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Visiting Cuba as a Tourist

Ninety days, extendable by another ninety, and then a further run of thirty-day extensions up to one year from the day you landed. That is longer than any other country in this set allows a visitor, and it comes from the regulation rather than from an officer's goodwill. A tourist visa is bought online, at a consulate, from an airline or a travel agency; an electronic one stays usable for a year from issue, a paper one for a hundred and eighty days. The list of nationalities that need no visa at all is the one thing Cuba does not publish: the law points at the visa-waiver agreements it has signed and never names them. Everything described here is the system that begins on 1 November 2026.

Tourist stay on arrival

90 natural days

First extension

A further 90 natural days

Beyond 180 days

Successive 30-day extensions, up to one year from entry

Transit without a visa

72 hours

Private-business visitor (transeúnte)

30 natural days, extendable twice by the same

Visiting family of a Cuban

Up to 180 natural days, extendable by the same

Paper visa must be used within

180 natural days of issue

Electronic visa must be used within

1 year of issue

Multiple-entry visa validity

Between 6 months and 5 years

Extension of stay, document tax

CUP 625.00

Visa for private business, document tax

CUP 625.00

Change of migratory classification, document tax

CUP 1 000.00

Visa refused

Reapply after 6 months

List of visa-exempt nationalities

Not published

Entering Dominica as a Visitor

Twelve months is the figure in the statute, and it is the longest single visitor permit of any country in this comparison. Section 19 of the Immigration and Passport Act lets an immigration officer grant a visitor or a passenger in transit a permit for up to twelve months, and a shorter permit may be extended by the Commissioner of Police up to that same twelve-month ceiling counted from the date of entry. Whether you need a visa first turns on a distinction the Act draws and most guides miss: only an alien needs one, and an alien is defined as a person who is not a Commonwealth citizen. The list of non-Commonwealth nationalities that are nevertheless exempt is set by the Aliens (Visa Exemption) Regulations - and the version in force is S.R.O. 37 of 2019, which the Government's own law collection does not publish.

Maximum period an officer may grant a visitor

12 months

Maximum a permit can be extended to

12 months from the date of entry

Who needs a visa

Aliens only

Visa-exempt period for the listed European, Asian and American nationalities

6 monthsas of 2015-03-19

Visa exemption on a Schengen, American, British or Canadian visa

6 monthsas of 2015-03-19

Dominican Republic nationals

190 days, visa-free, since 1 February 2026as of 2026-02-01

Maldives nationals

Visa-free, period written two ways in the same sentenceas of 2025-10-16

Transit and short tourist exemption

21 daysas of 2015-03-19

Security deposit an officer may require

EC$1,000 / EC$4,000 / EC$10,000 by region of origin

Cumulative annual ceiling

None in the Act

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Entering the Dominican Republic as a Tourist

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.

Maximum tourist stay in the regulation

60 days

Stay the tourist card allows

30 days

Longest stay obtainable by extension

120 days

Tourist card cost

US$10.00

Tourist card validity

One entry

Included in the air fare since

25 April 2018as of 2018-04-25

Extension of 30 to 90 days

RD$3,500.00

Extension of 90 to 120 days

RD$5,600.00

Work on a tourist card

Forfeits the card

Overstaying

Makes the stay illegal

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Entering Ecuador as a Tourist

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.

Stay granted on entry

Up to 90 daysas of 2025-07-14

Extension

Once, by up to 180 further daysas of 2025-07-14

South American tourists

Up to 180 days, plus a 180-day extensionas of 2025-07-14

Work on a tourist status

Prohibited

Tourist visa fee, where a visa is needed

USD 50 to apply, USD 30 on grant

Extension fee charged by migration control

One third of the minimum wage - USD 160.67 in 2026^CALC (calculated by us, not published)as of 2026-01-01

Funds asked for in a tourist visa application

At least one minimum wage - USD 482 in 2026 - for each month of stay^CALC (calculated by us, not published)as of 2026-01-01

Overstaying

A fine and, on leaving, a one-year bar unless one minimum wage is paid or a consular visa obtained

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Entering El Salvador as a Tourist

Ninety days, and then ninety more if you ask for them. The migration law caps the tourist period at ninety calendar days and allows one extension of up to another ninety, granted on a showing that the stay has a reasonable purpose - so the ordinary ceiling is six months, reached by one application rather than by leaving and returning. A second extension of ninety days exists but only for disaster, epidemic, natural phenomenon or declared public calamity. Nothing in the law counts tourist days across trips, which is the opposite of Peru and Colombia. Two things are not in the reader's control: the visa itself never fixes how long you may stay, because the law gives that decision to the officer at the border, and the list of nationalities that need a visa is the one document the migration directorate does not publish as a readable page.

Maximum tourist stay on entry

90 calendar days

Extension

Up to 90 more calendar days

Second extension

Up to 90 days, exceptional only

Cumulative annual ceiling

None in the instrument

Tourist extension fee

USD 25

Passport validity

More than 6 months

Who decides the length of stay

The officer at the border, not the visa

Work

Not permitted

Transit without entering

96 hours, not extendable

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Entering Grenada as a Visitor

Twelve months is the ceiling the Immigration Act sets for a visitor, and that is the longest ordinary visitor period anywhere in this comparison. An officer may grant up to twelve months on arrival; a shorter permit can be extended, but only up to twelve months from the date of entry, so the ceiling is counted from when you landed rather than from each renewal. Extensions cost EC$75 a month. Whether you need a visa first is the hardest question here, because the only visa-exemption instrument inside the consolidated law is a list of twelve countries from 1958, and the real exemptions sit in a 2016 amendment for Schengen passports and in practice at the border. Citizens of the Eastern Caribbean are in a different position entirely: they are entitled to remain, and they need no passport.

Maximum visitor permit

12 months

Extension ceiling

12 months from the date of entry

Extension fee

EC$75 per month

Change of status to visitor on business

EC$600

Schengen passports

90 days in any 180, visa-free

Eastern Caribbean citizens

Entitled to remain

Passport for Eastern Caribbean citizens

Not required

Overstaying

Deemed a prohibited alien

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Visiting Guatemala as a Tourist

Ninety days on arrival, one extension of the same length, and a hard ceiling of a hundred and eighty days counted from the day you entered. Whether you need a visa at all depends on which of three buckets your nationality sits in - exempt, consular visa, or a visa the consulate has to clear with the migration institute first - and the buckets are regional rather than Guatemalan: the four CA-4 countries agreed in 2005 to run one classification between them. Two shortcuts move people between buckets: a valid United States, Mexican, Canadian or Schengen visa, and three continuous years of residence in a visa-exempt country. The ninety days are regional too. They are granted once, at the first border post into the four-country area, and they run down whether you spend them in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras or Nicaragua.

Stay granted on entry

90 days

Extension

Once, for the same period as the first grant

Ceiling from the day of entry

180 days

Visa categories

A exempt, B consular, C consulted

Single-entry tourist visa validity

6 to 12 months

Multiple-entry tourist visa validity

1 to 5 years

Fee to lodge a visa or extension application in Guatemala

USD 25.00

Stay is regional, not national

90 days across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua

Leaving the four-country region

The regional permission lapses, even if days remain

Reapplying after a refusal

12 months

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Entering Guyana as a Visitor

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.

Permit at entry, most nationalities

Up to three months

Permit at entry, nationals of a Part B country

Six months

Countries in Part B of Schedule I

Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Outer limit on extensions

Three years from the date of entry into Guyana

Visa on arrival, period granted

One month in the first instanceas of 2026-10-06

Visa on arrival, extensions

A maximum of two, of one month eachas of 2026-10-06

Visitor visa fee

US$25.00, and a further US$25.00 for each extensionas of 2026-10-06

Countries whose nationals need no visa

71 countries and territoriesas of 2025-07-17

Alien registration after entry

Within three days, for an alien aged sixteen or over

Named ports of entry

Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Springlands, Morawhanna, the Government Station at Lethem, Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Bartica, the Police Stations at Orinduik and Good Hope, the airstrip at Omai, and the Moleson Creek wharf

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Entering Haiti as a Visitor: a Thirty-Day Card in the Statute, Ninety Days at the Border

The instrument still on the books gives a visitor thirty days. Haiti's missions tell travellers ninety. The Loi du 8 décembre 1959 sur l'immigration et l'émigration rewrote article 16 of the immigration law so that American and Canadian tourists, and nationals of countries that have an agreement with Haiti waiving passport or visa formalities, may enter on a simple card and stay thirty days; everyone else buys a visa from a Haitian consulate. Haiti's own embassy in Canada describes something different and larger: no prior visa for a Canadian staying under ninety days, entry formalities settled on arrival at any international airport or land border, and a ninety-day "séjour de courtoisie" after which a residence permit becomes compulsory. Both are Haitian government statements and they do not say the same thing. The statute also makes leaving a formality: article 43 requires an exit visa of any foreigner subject to an entry visa who has been in the country more than seventy-two hours.

Visa-free stay stated by Haiti's mission in Canada

Under 90 days for Canadian citizens

Stay the immigration law grants on a visitor's card

Thirty days

Courtesy stay before a residence permit is required

Ninety daysas of 2026-10-06

Visa fee at the embassy in Canada

CAD 40 single entry, CAD 50 multiple entryas of 2026-10-06

Visitor's visa fee in the 1959 law

Ten gourdes

Exit visa

Required of a foreigner subject to an entry visa who has stayed over 72 hours

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Entering Honduras as a Visitor

Ninety days on arrival and one extension of thirty days, which is as far as the regulation lets a visitor go without changing status. The migration law itself is more generous on its face - it grants ninety days "extendable for as long as is necessary" - and the regulation that implements that sentence caps the extension at a single thirty-day grant. The ninety days are not Honduran days: they are counted across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua together under the CA-4 single-visa arrangement, they begin at the first of the four borders you cross, and they end the moment you leave the region by an outer border. Whether you need a visa at all comes from the country list annexed to the CA-4 manual, not from a Honduran list. Nothing in the entry rules asks a visitor for a police certificate.

Initial stay

90 days

Extension

One further 30 days

Maximum visitor stay

120 days^CALC (calculated by us, not published)

Counted across

Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua together

Passport validity

At least 3 months

Extension fee

USD 20 per month

Land entry fee

USD 3

Transit

3 days, extendable once by 3 days

Police certificate at the border

Not asked for

Overstaying

A fine of half a minimum wage to three minimum wages

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Visiting Jamaica

Jamaica runs two entry statutes side by side, and which one you meet depends on whether your country is in the Commonwealth. A Commonwealth citizen is dealt with under the Immigration Restriction (Commonwealth Citizens) Act, which lets an immigration officer grant leave for up to twelve months and caps extensions at twelve months from the date of entry. Everyone else is an alien under the Aliens Act, which sets conditions for being let in at all - support for yourself, a work permit if you mean to work, a visa unless there is a mutual abolition agreement - and then leaves the length of stay entirely to whatever conditions the officer attaches. There is no six-month ceiling for aliens in the Aliens Act. The Agency publishes one anyway: it tells travellers that non-Commonwealth citizens get a maximum of six months, and that figure has no counterpart in the statute, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure does. Whether you need a visa is answered by a full country-by-country table, dated entry by entry, which is more than most of the region publishes. One entry on it is worth reading twice: Haiti is a member of the Caribbean Community and its ordinary passport holders need a Jamaican visa.

Leave an officer may grant a Commonwealth citizen

Up to twelve months

Extension ceiling for a Commonwealth citizen

Twelve months from the date of entry

Maximum visitor stay the Agency publishes for non-Commonwealth citizens

6 monthsas of 2026-10-06

Port of entry visa

US$100.00as of 2026-10-06

Arriving without a visa you should have obtained first

US$350.00as of 2026-10-06

Extension of stay, processing fee

JM$10,000.00as of 2026-10-06

Registration of a non-Commonwealth national over 16 staying more than six months

JM$2,000.00as of 2026-10-06

Regularising an overstay

JM$50,000.00as of 2026-10-06

United States passport holders

No visa required for 6 monthsas of 2026-10-06

Haitian ordinary passport holders

Visa requiredas of 2026-10-06

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Entering Mexico as a Visitor

Mexico's visitor permission runs up to 180 days, and two things about it are routinely misreported. The 180 days are a single uninterrupted stretch counted from the date of entry, not a quota you can spread across the year - nothing in the law counts days cumulatively the way Peru and Colombia do. And since the paper entry form stopped being issued at airports, the number you actually get is the one an immigration officer writes on the passport stamp as an estimated departure date. The instrument that governs the border says the authorised period is 180 days; the Institute's own page says the officer sets it. Where you land, and the reason you give, now decide the answer.

Maximum visitor stay in the law

180 uninterrupted days from the date of entry

Counted how

One continuous period from entry, not a cumulative allowance across the year

Period actually granted

Whatever the immigration officer writes on the stamp

Paid work

Not permitted

Entry fee paid by air passengers

MXN 983.00as of 2025-11-07

Consular visitor visa fee

MXN 990.79

Electronic visitor visa fee

MXN 197.65

Alternative to a Mexican visa

A valid visa or permanent residence from Canada, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom or a Schengen state; permanent residence in Chile, Colombia or Peru also counts

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Entering Nicaragua as a Visitor

Nicaragua does not give every visitor ninety days. The regulation sorts nationalities into three visa categories and grants a different stay to each: category A, which needs no visa, gets ninety days extendable to a hundred and eighty; categories B and C, which need a consular visa or a consulted one, get thirty days extendable to ninety. The days are regional, not Nicaraguan - they are granted at whichever outer border of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras or Nicaragua you first cross, and the migration directorates of all four may extend them. A visitor must be able to show funds equal to three times the industrial-sector minimum wage if asked, and the tourist card, a vehicle crossing and an air departure each carry a dollar charge set by the tourism law rather than the migration law.

Stay on arrival, visa-exempt nationalities

90 days

Maximum stay, visa-exempt nationalities

180 days

Stay on arrival, nationalities needing a visa

30 days

Maximum stay, nationalities needing a visa

90 days

Transit

5 days

Passport validity

More than 6 months

Days counted across

Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras together

Funds a visitor may be asked to show

Three times the industrial-sector minimum wage

Tourist card

USD 10

Vehicle crossing a land border

USD 5

Air departure levy

USD 3 out of the USD 32 airport charge

Time to regularise an irregular stay

Up to 30 days

Overstaying

A fine, an exit-visa charge, and 5 days to leave the region

Entry visa, once granted

Must be used within 6 months

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Entering Panama as a Tourist

Ninety days is the whole of it. Panama's migration decree-law fixes the tourist period at no more than ninety days and the regulation repeats the figure for both the stamped visa and the tourist card issued to nationals who need no visa, so the number a reader plans around is the number in the instrument rather than an officer's allowance. There is no cumulative annual ceiling of the Peruvian or Colombian kind. The one extension the law offers is not an extension of the holiday: it buys up to sixty extra days, and only to finish assembling a residency application, against a fee and a deposit you forfeit if the application is not filed in time.

Maximum tourist stay

90 days

Cumulative annual ceiling

None in the instrument

Extension as a tourist

Only up to the 90-day ceiling

Extension to change category

Up to 60 extra days

Cost of that extension

B/.250 plus a B/.500 depositas of 2008-08-08

If the residency application is not filed in time

Deposit forfeited, 5 days to leaveas of 2009-03-11

Minimum funds

B/.500

Passport validity

3 months

Tourist visa service fee

B/.50

Work

Not permitted

Entering Paraguay as a Visitor

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.

Maximum visitor stay

90 consecutive days

Extension

Once only, for no longer than the period first granted

Counting

Per admission

Extension fee

5 jornales - Gs. 585.385as of 2026-07-01

Overstay fine

6 jornales - Gs. 702.462as of 2026-07-01

Visa waiver for the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Shown as valid until 13/08/2027

Consular visa to apply for residency

Required for most visa-waived nationalities

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Entering Peru as a Tourist

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.

Maximum tourist stay under the law

183 calendar days

Counting window

365 days from your first regular entry

Common period granted at the border

90 days

Brazil and Chile

Up to 180 days in a year

Mexico and El Salvador

Up to 183 days

Extension

Available up to 183 days when a shorter period was grantedas of 2023-11-14

Work

Not permitted

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Entering Saint Kitts and Nevis as a Visitor

A visitor is admitted for whatever period the immigration officer thinks appropriate, up to a ceiling of six months - twice what most of Latin America allows on a single admission - and the ceiling is not the end of it: the Chief Immigration Officer may, with the Minister's approval, extend a permit up to six years from the date of entry. Citizens of the European Union countries named in the Act's Sixth Schedule need no visa for ninety days. Citizens of any Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States member get six months as of right rather than at discretion. Since 2025 a traveller who needs no visa has had to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation before arriving, through a portal run by the Ministry of National Security - a requirement that does not appear anywhere in the Immigration Act as consolidated to 2020.

Maximum period an officer may grant a visitor

6 months

Maximum a permit can be extended to

6 years from entry

Visa-free period for EU citizens

90 days

Countries in the Sixth Schedule

25

Entry for OECS citizens

6 months, as of right

Electronic Travel Authorisation

Required for visa-free travellers since 2025

Cumulative annual ceiling

None in the Act

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Visiting Saint Lucia

An immigration officer may grant a permit to enter and remain for any period up to six months, and the purpose is written on the permit: transit, medical treatment, visiting, employment, trade or business, a yacht, or anything else temporary and in good faith. Six months is the officer's ceiling; the Chief Immigration Officer can extend a permit afterwards, but only up to one year from the date of entry, so the clock runs from when you landed and not from when the extension was granted. Beyond a year there is no extension at all - only a grant by Cabinet of permission to remain, or of permanent residence. The visa question is answered by an Order with four lists: one of countries whose citizens need a visa, one of those who may buy it on arrival, one of those who must hold it before they travel, and one of those who need none. No other country in the records here publishes all four: Barbados runs two lists and the Bahamas two. A citizen of the United States, France, Canada or an Eastern Caribbean Protocol state may land on a national identity card or a driving licence rather than a passport.

Longest permit an officer may grant on arrival

6 monthsas of 2026-10-05

Longest stay on an officer's permit and extensions together

One year from the date of entry

Beyond one year

Cabinet only

Permit purposes the Act names

Seven

Visa on arrival

Available to Schedule 2 countries

Citizens of Singapore

Visa only if the stay exceeds 15 days

Cruise passengers ashore for the day

No visa

Extension fee for a Caribbean Community national

Waived to 30 June 2026

Entry without a passport

Identity card or driving licence

Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe

Visa, available on arrival

Caribbean Community member states

No visa, Haiti excepted

Eastern Caribbean citizens

Indefinite stay

Caribbean Community citizens outside the Eastern Caribbean

6 months, on reciprocity

Fee for an extension of stay

EC$100 per 21-day period

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Entering Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a Visitor

An entry permit is granted at the desk and how long it runs depends on where the passport is from: six months for CARICOM, British, Schengen and United States citizens, three months for everyone else. Citizens of the other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States are not visitors at all - they are given indefinite stay - and since 1 October 2025 nationals of Barbados, Belize and Dominica are given it too. A short permit can be extended at EC$75 a month at the Immigration head office in Kingstown or at the ports in Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island. A visa is required in advance from citizens of ten named countries and from no one else, at EC$200. The Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, is the statute behind all of it, and it is not published.

Permit on arrival, CARICOM nationals

6 months

Permit on arrival, United Kingdom, Schengen states and the United States

6 months

Permit on arrival, all other countries

3 months

Permit on arrival, OECS citizens

Indefinite stay

Extension fee

EC$75.00 per month or part thereof

Countries whose citizens need a visa

10

Entry visa fee

EC$200.00 (US$88.00), non-refundable

Statute

Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114

Advance passenger information

Legislated in 2026

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Visitor Entry: a Statute That Grants Three Months, a Ministry That Grants Ninety Days, and a Fee at Every Arrival

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.

Stay granted by the Act

Three months for a visitor who needs no visa

Stay granted to everyone else

Eight days

Stay published by the Ministry

Ninety days for tourism or a family visit

Entry fee

USD 50 or EUR 50, plus USD 8 or EUR 8 service feeas of 2026-10-06

Countries the waiver does not cover

Twenty-one, from 1 May 2023

Exempt from the entry fee

Ten groups, including every CARICOM passport holder

Authorisation for short stay

Required for an intended stay of more than three months

Longest ordinary residence permit

Two years, renewable

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Landing in The Bahamas: Eight Months, Counted From the Day You Arrived

An immigration officer may grant leave to land for any period up to eight months, which is the longest visitor ceiling of any country covered here. The number is not a per-entry allowance: section 22(3) caps the total period a person may remain at eight months from the day they last landed, so an extension draws on the same eight months rather than adding to them. What the officer must be satisfied of is a closed list in section 22(1): a ticket or other means of leaving, no gainful occupation, no risk to peace and good government, health, character, no entry on the stop list, and the ability to support yourself and your dependants. Whether a visa is needed first is answered only by the Department of Immigration, on a page carrying two lists that contradict each other - the United Arab Emirates is named in both the waiver list and the table of countries that must obtain a visa. Haiti is a member state of the Caribbean Community and its citizens are in the visa-required table. Since 18 September 2024 an extension of stay carries a non-refundable $200 processing fee.

Maximum period an officer may grant

Eight months

How the ceiling is counted

Eight months from the day the person last landed, in total

Extension of stay fee

$200.00, non-refundable

Visa lists

Two lists published by the Department of Immigration, and they overlap

Business visits of three days or less

No work visa required, for a closed list of activities

Visiting Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago answers the visa question by rule rather than by list. Regulation 13(5) of the Immigration Regulations requires a visa in the passport of everyone seeking to enter; regulation 13(8) then takes the requirement away from citizens of Commonwealth countries, from nationals of countries with which Trinidad and Tobago has concluded Visa Abolition Agreements, and from two classes of transit passenger. Regulation 13(11) puts it back for the countries in the Second Schedule, and that Schedule names four: Cuba, Macedonia, North Korea and Vietnam. There is no statutory period of stay for a visitor. Section 9(1) of the Immigration Act lets an immigration officer admit tourists or visitors on such conditions and for such periods as may be fit and proper in the particular case, and the certificate the officer issues carries whatever period he wrote on it. Extending it means submitting to a fresh examination even though you are already in the country. A stay longer than one year requires a medical certificate on Form 40 before entry. Visas are now bought online: the Immigration Division charges TT$800 for a multiple-entry visa, which is the figure the Seventh Schedule to the Regulations has prescribed since 1 January 2026.

Period a visitor is given

Whatever the immigration officer decides

Countries for which a visa is compulsory whatever else applies

Four: Cuba, Macedonia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Vietnam

Multiple-entry visa

TT$800as of 2026-01-01

Visa waiver granted at the port of entry

TT$800as of 2026-01-01

In-transit pass

Up to 14 days

Medical certificate

Required before any admission for more than one year

Extending a stay

A fresh examination, as if seeking entry for the first time

Arrival and departure declaration

Required of all passengers and crew, electronically or on paperas of 2026-01-01

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Entering Uruguay as a Tourist

Uruguayan law puts tourists in the 'non-resident' category - people who enter without intending to stay, permanently or temporarily. The stay is commonly 90 days, extendable by another 90. The provision worth knowing is the one about running out of time: you can apply to change migration category, but only before your permission expires.

Legal category

Non-resident (Ley 18.250 art. 36)

Stay

90 days, extendable by 90

Extension

At the migration directorate's discretion, for justified reasons

Changing category

Must be applied for before the stay expires

Visiting Venezuela as a Tourist

A tourist visa is valid for a year with multiple entries and allows ninety days of stay, which the interior ministry may extend once by the same period. The passport must have at least six months left. The instrument that sets this out is a joint resolution of three ministries made in December 1999; the foreign ministry's own page for the tourist visa asks for several things the resolution does not - a medical certificate issued by the health authority of your country, a hotel booking or a notarised letter of invitation, and a return ticket. Which nationalities need no visa is not something we could read in any instrument: the resolution exempts holders of a tourist card issued to nationals of beneficiary countries and nowhere says which countries those are.

Tourist visa validity

One year, multiple entries

Stay allowed

Up to 90 days per entry

Extension

One further period of the same length, at the interior ministry's discretion

Passport validity

At least six months

Transit visa

72 hours, single entry

Tourist card (DEX-2)

90 days, single entry, no extension

Consular fee

Not published centrally