{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"CO","name":"Colombia","slug":"colombia"},"destination":{"code":"NI","name":"Nicaragua"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"nicaragua-category-b-named-ordinary-passports-advance-consular-visa","title":"Nicaragua: named Category B ordinary passports require consular visa","summary":"The current official CA-4 AIP schedule expressly marks these ordinary passports Category B: consular/no-consultation. The baseline is visa_required because the schedule requires a consular visa stamped before arrival, not an eVisa or ETA.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["The AIP states that Category B nationals must present a passport and carry a stamped consular visa before the migration officer admits them at the arrival port.","The migration digest says a Category B visa may be issued at a migration post only under ratified instruments and migration policies. It does not identify a nationality-wide border-issued route for this cohort, so no visa_on_arrival route is inferred.","No online application, duration, fee, entries, extension, onward-travel, funds, accommodation, health or admission outcome is inferred.","Residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, stateless, territorial and third-country-document routes are excluded."],"sourceIds":["nicaragua-inac-current-ca4-visa-schedule","nicaragua-assembly-current-migration-digest"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"nicaragua-inac-current-ca4-visa-schedule","title":"INAC current eAIP GEN 1.3: passenger entry, transit and exit","url":"https://www.cocesna.org/aipca/AIPMN/AIP_2506/Eurocontrol/NICARAGUA/2025-10-30-AIRAC/html/eAIP/ES-MN-GEN-1.3-es-ES.html","publisher":"Instituto Nicaragüense de Aeronáutica Civil / COCESNA eAIP","jurisdiction":"Nicaragua","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"nicaragua-assembly-current-migration-digest","title":"Ley del Digesto Jurídico Nicaragüense de la Materia Orden Interno","url":"https://legislacion.asamblea.gob.ni/Normaweb.nsf/b34f77cd9d23625e06257265005d21fa/16cce6618ba5fb2e062587f400765407","publisher":"Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua","jurisdiction":"Nicaragua","kind":"law","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}