Official visa application portal
Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Consular visa registration and application. Submitting a form does not itself grant a visa or admission.
Open sourceSource trail
Sources used for Bolivia visa and residency guidance.
Editorial review: September 24, 2026. These references explain what supports each guide and where confirmation is still needed.
Consular visa requirements
Bolivian consular service. Category-specific documents. Confirm photo specifications, legalizations and exceptions with your receiving consulate.
Open sourceOfficial country-group data
Bolivia visa system. The checker's live source. The feed contains missing groups and unreliable ISO codes; retrieval time is not the date a rule took effect.
Open sourceDecember 2025 tourist exemption announcement
Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The eight-country Group I change includes South Korea, South Africa, Bulgaria, Malta, Romania, UAE, Israel and the USA. The announcement described gradual implementation.
Open sourceVisa categories and permitted stays
Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Regular student visa up to 60 days; one-year multiple business visa with stays no longer than 90 uninterrupted days. The portal and consulate determine the application category.
Open sourceDirección General de Migración (DIGEMIG)
Government of Bolivia. Authority for in-country stays, extensions and residence. Request its current checklist, filing channel and fees; the site was intermittently unavailable during review.
Open sourceU.S. traveler entry guidance
U.S. Department of State. Confirms no visa for U.S. tourism/business visits of less than 90 days per year. This guidance applies to U.S. travelers, not every nationality.
Open sourceBritish traveler entry requirements
UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. British tourists: 90 days in a one-year period; the page explains treatment of 30-day stamps. Its yellow-fever entry advice differs from other official sources.
Open sourceCanadian traveler entry requirements
Government of Canada. Describes an initial 30 days and two 30-day extensions for Canadians, up to 90 days per calendar year. Do not apply this procedure automatically to all passports.
Open sourceAndean Migration Statute — Decision 878
Comunidad Andina, Official Gazette 4239. Regional tourism and residence framework, including temporary residence and the permanent-application window. Confirm Bolivia's current implementation with DIGEMIG.
Open sourceMercosur Residence Agreement overview
Mercosur. Regional residence framework. Bolivia-specific eligibility, implementation and current filing requirements need confirmation.
Open sourceHistorical DIGEMIG guide: Saber Bolivia
Bolivian Embassy in Washington / DIGEMIG. Background on temporary and permanent Mercosur residence. Do not treat its fees or operational instructions as a current 2026 checklist.
Open sourceMigration Law 370
Bolivian Customs, official legal archive. Original 2013 migration law. Read alongside its regulations and later amendments.
Open sourceSupreme Decree 1923
Bolivian Customs, official legal archive. Base regulation for the national residence routes. For the official 2023 compilation including DS 4828, open DIGEMIG’s legal library and select Legislación Migratoria.
Open sourceMigration legislation and DS 4828 amendments
DIGEMIG legal library. Select Legislación Migratoria (2023). The official compilation includes Law 370, DS 1923 and the DS 4828 amendments. Later operational requirements still need confirmation.
Open sourceSpecific-purpose visa guidance
Bolivian Embassy in Canada. Describes the standard 30-day specific-purpose visa. Other activity-based variants require separate confirmation.
Open sourceViedma consular tariff
Bolivian Consulate in Viedma. Illustrates category-specific fees but retains legacy U.S. tourist entries. It conflicts with older official tariffs and is not a universal current price list.
Open sourceOlder consular tariff reference
Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Older tariff amounts differ from mission pages. Confirm the payable fee directly before making payment.
Open sourceYellow-fever travel guidance
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Travel-health guidance and entry-certificate information. Entry wording differs from Bolivian and UK guidance; check your route with the consulate and airline, and medical suitability with a travel-health professional.
Open sourceBolivian consular health-document checklist
Bolivian Consulate in Ilo. Ties yellow-fever documentation to high-risk endemic areas. Compare with current route-specific consular and airline instructions.
Open sourceTransit, humanitarian and other categories
Bolivian Consulate in Pocitos. Lists transit, humanitarian, courtesy and specific-purpose categories. Special circumstances need individual consular handling.
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