Panama visa requirements · checked 26 September 2026
Visa & Entry Requirements for PanamaMost travellers can visit Panama without a visa: 115 of 198 passports enter visa-free, usually for 90 days.
Panama's National Immigration Service publishes a list of which nationalities need a visa to enter with an ordinary passport; it marks Germany, the UK, the US and Canada, among others, as not needing one. Panama's immigration law sets tourist stays at no more than ninety days. Executive Decree 196 of 2024 amended Executive Decree 521 of 2018, which removes the visa requirement to enter as a tourist for nationalities that need a visa when they hold a visa to enter Canada, the US, Australia, South Korea, Japan, the UK, Singapore or any EU member state.
Do I need a visa for Panama? Quick answers
United States
Visa-free
90 days
United Kingdom
Visa-free
90 days
Germany
Visa-free
90 days
India
Visa required
China
Visa required
Canada
Visa-free
90 days
Australia
Visa-free
90 days
Poland
Visa-free
90 days
Another passport? Use the checker or find it in the table below.
Visa for Panama — requirements summaryAll travellers must meet the entry rules set by Panama, and they depend on your nationality. Find your passport below — you may be able to enter visa-free, or need an eVisa, a visa on arrival or a visa from an embassy.
| Passport | Requirement | Max stay | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Albania |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Algeria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Andorra |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Angola |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Argentina |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Armenia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| Australia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Austria |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Azerbaijan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bahamas |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bahrain |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bangladesh |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Barbados |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Belarus |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Belgium |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Belize |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Benin |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bhutan |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bolivia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Botswana |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Brazil |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Brunei |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bulgaria |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Burkina Faso |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Burundi |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Cambodia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Cameroon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Canada |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Cape Verde |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Central African Republic |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Chad |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Chile |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| China |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Colombia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Comoros |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Costa Rica |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Côte d'Ivoire |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Croatia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Cuba |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Cyprus |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Czechia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Denmark |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Djibouti |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Dominica |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Dominican Republic |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 DR Congo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ecuador |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Egypt |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 El Salvador |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Equatorial Guinea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Eritrea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Estonia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Eswatini |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ethiopia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Fiji |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Finland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 France |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Gabon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Gambia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Georgia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Germany |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Ghana |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Greece |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Grenada |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Guatemala |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Guinea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Guinea-Bissau |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Guyana |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Haiti |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Honduras |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Hong Kong |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Hungary |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Iceland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| India |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Indonesia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Iran |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Iraq |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ireland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Israel |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Italy |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Jamaica |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Japan |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Jordan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kazakhstan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kenya |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kiribati |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Kosovo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kuwait |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Kyrgyzstan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Laos |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Latvia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Lebanon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Lesotho |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Liberia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Libya |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Liechtenstein |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Lithuania |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Luxembourg |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Macau |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Madagascar |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Malawi |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Malaysia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Maldives |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mali |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Malta |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Marshall Islands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mauritania |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Mauritius |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mexico |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Micronesia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Moldova |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Monaco |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mongolia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Montenegro |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Morocco |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Mozambique |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Myanmar |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Namibia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Nauru |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Nepal |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Netherlands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 New Zealand |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Nicaragua |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Niger |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Nigeria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 North Korea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 North Macedonia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Norway |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Oman |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Pakistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Palau |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Palestine |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Papua New Guinea |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Paraguay |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Peru |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Philippines |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Poland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Portugal |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Qatar |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Republic of the Congo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Romania |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Russia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Rwanda |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Saint Lucia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Samoa |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 San Marino |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sao Tome and Principe |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Saudi Arabia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Senegal |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Serbia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Seychelles |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sierra Leone |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Singapore |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Slovakia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Slovenia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Solomon Islands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Somalia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 South Africa |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 South Korea |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 South Sudan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Spain |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sri Lanka |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Sudan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Suriname |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Sweden |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Switzerland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Syria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Taiwan |
Visa-free | 30 days | Details → |
 Tajikistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tanzania |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Thailand |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Timor-Leste |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Togo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tonga |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Tunisia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Türkiye |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Turkmenistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tuvalu |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uganda |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ukraine |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 United Arab Emirates |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| United Kingdom |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| United States |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uruguay |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uzbekistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Vanuatu |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Vatican City |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Venezuela |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Vietnam |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Yemen |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Zambia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Zimbabwe |
Visa required | — | Details → |
No passport matches your search.
Panama visa types, fees and processing timesThe National Immigration Service's requirements for a tourist visa set the migration-services fee at fifty balboas, payable when the application is presented to the Service, and say tourist visas are valid for no more than ninety days. No official source we could read states a processing time.
Fee and processing time not published — confirm with the embassy or consulate before you apply.
Entry requirements for PanamaPanama's National Immigration Service lists a passport or travel document with a minimum of 3 months' validity among its entry requirements. The UK Foreign Office says a British visitor's passport must have an expiry date at least 6 months after the day they plan to leave Panama, and at least one blank page.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
WHO lists Panama as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged 1 year or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission. WHO also recommends vaccination for all travellers aged 9 months or over going to mainland areas east of the area surrounding the Canal: the comarcas of Emberá and Kuna Yala, the province of Darién, and the areas of the provinces of Colón and Panama east of the Canal.
World Health Organization — Vaccination requirements and WHO recommendations (International travel and health, 2022 country list): Panama✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Travel insurance is not among the requirements that foreigners must meet to enter Panama under Article 43 of Decreto Ley 3 of 2008 ("los extranjeros deben cumplir los siguientes requisitos"), as the National Immigration Service lists them.
Servicio Nacional de Migración — Turistas (entry requirements, Decreto Ley 3 de 2008, art. 43)✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service lists a confirmed reservation to leave the country within the established period among its entry requirements, and Article 43 of Decreto Ley 3 of 2008 requires a return ticket to the country of origin or residence when the migration category requires it.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service says visitors must show proof of economic solvency consistent with the terms they declare for their stay and in no case less than B/.500.00; a child under 18 does not need to show it.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service lists among the entry requirements for foreigners (Decreto Ley 3 of 2008, art. 43) presenting the entry and exit card (Tarjeta de Ingreso y Egreso) supplied by the international transport company, duly completed.
Servicio Nacional de Migración — Turistas (entry requirements, Decreto Ley 3 de 2008, art. 43)✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026
A non-resident must leave the country when the authorized period expires. An irregular migrant who asks for voluntary return pays a fine of 50 balboas for each month or part of a month spent in that condition, receives an entry ban of no less than 2 and no more than 5 years, and must leave within 7 calendar days, except in duly proven cases of force majeure. The National Migration Service deports, and bans from entry, foreigners who stay in the country undocumented or irregularly.
Gaceta Oficial de Panamá No. 25986 — Decreto Ley 3 de 22 de febrero de 2008 (Servicio Nacional de Migración)✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026
Panama's traveller declaration (run by the National Customs Authority) asks whether you are carrying cash or monetary instruments, securities, objects, precious metals or a combination of these worth US$10,000.00 or more, or the equivalent.
Autoridad Nacional de Aduanas — Declaración Jurada de Viajero application, Declaración de bienes y valores step✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026
Panama visa requirements statisticsWe track the entry rules of Panama for 198 passports. The most common situation is visa-free, which applies to 115 passports (58%). 58% of passports can enter without a visa. The least common is visa required (83 passports).
Open your passport in the table for the exact rules — maximum stay, fees, how to apply and the official source. Entry rules change at short notice: confirm with the embassy of Panama or its official immigration website before you travel.
Frequently asked questions about Panama visasData: TravelRequirements.info — Entry Requirements Dataset, AXG Sp. z o.o. (CC BY 4.0) — official sources are linked on each passport page. Gaps filled from the Passport Index dataset (MIT).
Travelling from Panama?
Panama passport holders can visit 88 countries without a visa. Open a country for the exact rules.
Albania
90d
Andorra
90d
Angola
30d
Antigua and Barbuda
180d
Argentina
90d
Austria
90d
Bahamas
90d
Barbados
28d
Belarus
30d
Belgium
90d
Belize
30d
Bolivia
90d
Bosnia and Herzegovina
90d
Brazil
90d
Bulgaria
90d
Chile
90d
Colombia
90d
Costa Rica
180d
Croatia
90d
Cyprus
90d
Czechia
90d
Denmark
90d
Dominica
21d
Dominican Republic
∞
Ecuador
90d
El Salvador
180d
Estonia
90d
Finland
90d
France
90d
Georgia
360d
Germany
90d
Greece
90d
Guatemala
90d
Guyana
90d
Honduras
90d
Hong Kong
30d
Hungary
90d
Iceland
90d
Ireland
90d
Israel
90d
Italy
90d
Jamaica
30d
Japan
90d
Kiribati
90d
Kosovo
90d
Latvia
90d
Liechtenstein
90d
Lithuania
90d
Luxembourg
90d
Malaysia
30d
Malta
90d
Mexico
180d
Micronesia
30d
Moldova
90d
Monaco
90d
Montenegro
90d
Netherlands
90d
Nicaragua
90d
North Macedonia
90d
Norway
90d
Palestine
∞
Paraguay
90d
Peru
180d
Philippines
30d
Poland
90d
Portugal
90d
Romania
90d
Russia
90d
Saint Kitts and Nevis
90d
Saint Lucia
42d
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
90d
San Marino
90d
Seychelles
90d
Singapore
30d
Slovakia
90d
Slovenia
90d
South Africa
90d
Spain
90d
Sweden
90d
Switzerland
90d
Thailand
60d
Trinidad and Tobago
90d
Türkiye
90d
Ukraine
90d
Uruguay
90d
Uzbekistan
30d
Vatican City
90d
Vietnam
90d
