Paraguay visa requirements · checked 26 September 2026

Visa & Entry Requirements for Paraguay

Q: What documents do I need to enter Paraguay?

Passport validity: The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones lists a valid passport as the travel document for non-resident foreigners and says that if you enter with a travel document close to expiry, the immigration authority grants the length of stay taking the document's expiry date into account. Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Paraguay. Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states an onward-ticket requirement for Paraguay. Proof of funds: No official source we could read states whether visitors must show proof of funds, or an amount.

Q: How long can I stay in Paraguay without a visa?

Up to 90 days for every visa-free passport.

Most travellers need a visa for Paraguay: 128 of 198 passports must apply at an embassy or consulate, while 70 passports enter visa-free.

Paraguay's foreign ministry lists the countries whose nationals do not need a visa, among them the EU states, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and says that anyone whose country is not listed does need one. The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones admits non-resident foreigners for a maximum of 90 days, extendable once, and accepts the national identity document of Mercosur and associated-country citizens as a travel document. Visa applications are made through the foreign ministry's online form, followed by an interview.

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Passports visa-free

128

Embassy visa required

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Visa for Paraguay — requirements summary

Visa-free: 70 (35%)
Visa required: 128 (65%)

All travellers must meet the entry rules set by Paraguay, 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 required	—	Details →
Argentina	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Armenia	Visa required	—	Details →
Australia	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Austria	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Azerbaijan	Visa required	—	Details →
Bahamas	Visa-free	—	Details →
Bahrain	Visa required	—	Details →
Bangladesh	Visa required	—	Details →
Barbados	Visa required	—	Details →
Belarus	Visa required	—	Details →
Belgium	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Belize	Visa required	—	Details →
Benin	Visa required	—	Details →
Bhutan	Visa required	—	Details →
Bolivia	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa required	—	Details →
Botswana	Visa required	—	Details →
Brazil	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Brunei	Visa required	—	Details →
Bulgaria	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Burkina Faso	Visa required	—	Details →
Burundi	Visa required	—	Details →
Cambodia	Visa required	—	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 required	—	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 required	—	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 required	—	Details →
Finland	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
France	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Gabon	Visa required	—	Details →
Gambia	Visa required	—	Details →
Georgia	Visa-free	—	Details →
Germany	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Ghana	Visa required	—	Details →
Greece	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Grenada	Visa required	—	Details →
Guatemala	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Guinea	Visa required	—	Details →
Guinea-Bissau	Visa required	—	Details →
Guyana	Visa required	—	Details →
Haiti	Visa required	—	Details →
Honduras	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Hong Kong	Visa required	—	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 required	—	Details →
Japan	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Jordan	Visa required	—	Details →
Kazakhstan	Visa required	—	Details →
Kenya	Visa required	—	Details →
Kiribati	Visa required	—	Details →
Kosovo	Visa required	—	Details →
Kuwait	Visa required	—	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 required	—	Details →
Malawi	Visa required	—	Details →
Malaysia	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Maldives	Visa required	—	Details →
Mali	Visa required	—	Details →
Malta	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Marshall Islands	Visa required	—	Details →
Mauritania	Visa required	—	Details →
Mauritius	Visa required	—	Details →
Mexico	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Micronesia	Visa required	—	Details →
Moldova	Visa required	—	Details →
Monaco	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Mongolia	Visa required	—	Details →
Montenegro	Visa required	—	Details →
Morocco	Visa required	—	Details →
Mozambique	Visa required	—	Details →
Myanmar	Visa required	—	Details →
Namibia	Visa required	—	Details →
Nauru	Visa required	—	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 required	—	Details →
Norway	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Oman	Visa required	—	Details →
Pakistan	Visa required	—	Details →
Palau	Visa required	—	Details →
Palestine	Visa required	—	Details →
Panama	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Papua New Guinea	Visa required	—	Details →
Peru	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Philippines	Visa-free	—	Details →
Poland	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Portugal	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Qatar	Visa required	—	Details →
Republic of the Congo	Visa required	—	Details →
Romania	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Russia	Visa-free	—	Details →
Rwanda	Visa required	—	Details →
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Visa-free	—	Details →
Saint Lucia	Visa required	—	Details →
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa required	—	Details →
Samoa	Visa required	—	Details →
San Marino	Visa required	—	Details →
Sao Tome and Principe	Visa required	—	Details →
Saudi Arabia	Visa required	—	Details →
Senegal	Visa required	—	Details →
Serbia	Visa required	—	Details →
Seychelles	Visa required	—	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 required	—	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	90 days	Details →
Tajikistan	Visa required	—	Details →
Tanzania	Visa required	—	Details →
Thailand	Visa required	—	Details →
Timor-Leste	Visa required	—	Details →
Togo	Visa required	—	Details →
Tonga	Visa required	—	Details →
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa-free	—	Details →
Tunisia	Visa required	—	Details →
Türkiye	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Turkmenistan	Visa required	—	Details →
Tuvalu	Visa required	—	Details →
Uganda	Visa required	—	Details →
Ukraine	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
United Arab Emirates	Visa-free	—	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 required	—	Details →
Vatican City	Visa required	—	Details →
Venezuela	Visa required	—	Details →
Vietnam	Visa required	—	Details →
Yemen	Visa required	—	Details →
Zambia	Visa required	—	Details →
Zimbabwe	Visa required	—	Details →

Paraguay visa types, fees and processing times

Non-resident visa (tourist or technician)

Embassy

Extension: Possible

Fee and processing time not published — confirm with the embassy or consulate before you apply.

Official application site →

Extension of stay (prórroga)

Extension

Fee: 557,510 PYG

Fee stated in the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones' requirements sheet for the extension of transitory stay (Prórroga de Permanencia Transitoria).

Official application site →

Entry requirements for Paraguay

Passport validity

The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones lists a valid passport as the travel document for non-resident foreigners and says that if you enter with a travel document close to expiry, the immigration authority grants the length of stay taking the document's expiry date into account. It says the national identity document of the country of origin is valid exclusively for Mercosur citizens travelling to another member or associated country: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.

Dirección Nacional de Migraciones — Requerimientos migratorios de ingreso y salida del país (mayores), July 2025✓ Checked 2 Oct 2026

Vaccinations: Yellow fever

10 days

Paraguay's health ministry requires a yellow fever vaccination certificate from foreigners aged 1 to 59 entering from the risk zones it lists: Bolivia (Santa Cruz); Brazil (Amazonas, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Roraima); Colombia (Caquetá, Huila, Nariño, Putumayo, Vaupés and Tolima); Guyana (Boa Vista and Siparuni); Peru (Huánuco, Junín, Madre de Dios, San Martín and Ucayali). Travellers should be vaccinated at least 10 days before travel. Passengers in transit for up to 24 hours in those zones are exempt.

Dirección Nacional de Migraciones — Requisitos sanitarios de entrada y salida del Paraguay✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Travel insurance

No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Paraguay. The UK Foreign Office says to check before you travel that you have appropriate travel insurance for local treatment or unexpected medical evacuation.

UK FCDO — Paraguay travel advice: health✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026

Return or onward ticket

No official source we could read states an onward-ticket requirement for Paraguay. The Government of Canada's travel advice says customs officials may ask you to show them a return or onward ticket.

Government of Canada — Travel advice and advisories: Paraguay✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026

Proof of funds

No official source we could read states whether visitors must show proof of funds, or an amount.

Overstay penalties

Foreigners admitted in the categories of the relevant chapter of the Migration Law may stay up to 90 calendar days, extendable once at their request for no longer than the period first granted. When the authorised stay ends, the foreigner must leave or apply for residence; otherwise fines and other sanctions apply. A foreigner found at the migration control post to have exceeded the authorised transitory stay is fined up to 6 jornales (daily wages). A repeat offence raises the fine by up to 50%.

Biblioteca y Archivo Central del Congreso Nacional (BACN) — Ley Nº 6984 De Migraciones✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026

Customs allowances

USD 10,000

Paraguay's tax and customs authority (DNIT) says anyone carrying USD 10,000 or more, or the equivalent in other currencies or instruments such as traveller's cheques, must declare it through the eDAV system and show the QR code to customs, and must use the red channel.

Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios (DNIT) — DNIT recuerda normas vigentes para viajeros✓ Checked 2 Oct 2026

Paraguay visa requirements statistics

198

Passports covered

128

Most common: Visa required

Least common: Visa-free

35%

Visa-free access

Visa-free stays by length

90 days · 63 passports

Understanding Paraguay visa requirements

We track the entry rules of Paraguay for 198 passports. The most common situation is visa required, which applies to 128 passports (65%). 35% of passports can enter without a visa. The least common is visa-free (70 passports).

Entry categories for Paraguay

Visa-free entry: 70 passports can enter without a visa, for up to 90 days.
Visa required: 128 passports must apply at an embassy or consulate.

What else you need to enter Paraguay

Passport validity: The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones lists a valid passport as the travel document for non-resident foreigners and says that if you enter with a travel document close to expiry, the immigration authority grants the length of stay taking the document's expiry date into account.
Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Paraguay.
Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states an onward-ticket requirement for Paraguay.
Proof of funds: No official source we could read states whether visitors must show proof of funds, or an amount.

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 Paraguay or its official immigration website before you travel.

Frequently asked questions about Paraguay visas

Do I need a visa for Paraguay?

Not if your country is on the foreign ministry's list of countries whose nationals do not need a visa; it includes the EU states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Israel, and the ministry says that if your country is not listed you do need a visa. The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones admits non-resident foreigners for a maximum of 90 days and accepts the national identity document of Mercosur and associated-country citizens as a travel document. Visa applications are made through the foreign ministry's online form.

Do US citizens need a visa for Paraguay?

No. Paraguay's Consulate General in New York says Law 7314/2024, which extends Law 6790/2021 for three additional years, eliminates visa requirements for citizens of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who wish to enter Paraguay for tourism, provided their stay does not exceed 90 days, until 13 August 2027.

Can I enter Paraguay with a national ID card instead of a passport?

The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones says the national identity document of the country of origin is a valid travel document exclusively for Mercosur citizens travelling to another member or associated country of the bloc, and lists Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.

Is there a Paraguayan eVisa?

No official page we read describes an electronic visa. Paraguay's foreign ministry says you complete its digital visa application form (mre.gov.py/visasenlinea) and attach the required documents; the respective Paraguayan consular office reviews the application and then gives you a date and time for an interview at that office. The ministry says the visa can be processed at Paraguay's consulates or at the consular sections of its embassies.

Can I stay longer than 90 days in Paraguay?

The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones admits non-resident foreigners for a maximum of 90 days, extendable once at the person's request for no longer than the period first granted, at its discretion. The fee is Gs. 557,510.

Do I need a yellow fever vaccination for Paraguay?

Paraguay's health ministry requires a yellow fever vaccination certificate from everyone aged 1 to 59 travelling from or to the risk zones it lists: Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Roraima), Colombia (Caquetá, Huila, Nariño, Putumayo, Vaupés and Tolima), Guyana (Boa Vista and Siparuni) and Peru (Huánuco, Junín, Madre de Dios, San Martín and Ucayali).

Do UK citizens need a visa for Paraguay?

UK citizens can visit Paraguay visa-free for 90 days. Full rules for United Kingdom passport holders.

Do German citizens need a visa for Paraguay?

German citizens can visit Paraguay visa-free for 90 days. Full rules for Germany passport holders.

What documents do I need to enter Paraguay?

Passport validity: The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones lists a valid passport as the travel document for non-resident foreigners and says that if you enter with a travel document close to expiry, the immigration authority grants the length of stay taking the document's expiry date into account. Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Paraguay. Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states an onward-ticket requirement for Paraguay. Proof of funds: No official source we could read states whether visitors must show proof of funds, or an amount.

How long can I stay in Paraguay without a visa?

Up to 90 days for every visa-free passport.

How many countries can visit Paraguay without a visa?

70 of 198 passports can enter Paraguay visa-free (35%). and 128 need a visa from an embassy.

Data: 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).

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