{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"CR","name":"Costa Rica","slug":"costa-rica"},"destination":{"code":"GU","name":"Guam"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"guam-cnmi-remaining-foreign-ordinary-passports-advance-visa","title":"Guam and CNMI: remaining foreign ordinary passports require advance visa","summary":"For every remaining catalog foreign ordinary passport not affected by the current proclamation and after the separate Bahamian, Canadian, Compact, federal VWP, G-CNMI and PRC-CNMI exceptions are removed, current 8 CFR 212.1 applies its general requirement to present a valid visa.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["This is the ordinary short business/pleasure nationality baseline, not a finding that every person holding the passport lacks a valid U.S. visa or other immigration status.","Valid U.S. visas, lawful permanent residence, advance parole, humanitarian or individual documentary waivers, visas for transit/crew/work/study/residence, diplomatic/official/special passports and inadmissibility remain distinct conditional cases.","The rule never treats a residual passport as eligible for G-CNMI, federal VWP/ESTA, Compact or CNMI EVS-TAP merely by omission.","The catalog passports affected by Presidential Proclamation 10998 are deliberately unresolved because current entry and visitor-visa restrictions and their historic-visa, dual-national and other exceptions cannot be represented by one passport-wide access category."],"sourceIds":["us-current-ecfr-documentary-requirements","us-state-2026-pp10998-visa-suspension","us-white-house-2025-pp10998","us-code-2023-immigration-geographic-definition"]},{"id":"guam-residual-ordinary-passports-advance-visa","title":"Guam: explicit residual visitor-visa baseline","summary":"The current federal documentary regulation expressly requires a valid visa unless a named exception applies; this cohort is outside Guam’s federal no-visa, VWP/ESTA and G-CNMI passport cohorts.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["This ordinary short-visitor baseline requires a valid unexpired U.S. nonimmigrant visa and passport. Qualifying residence, special-document, crew, transit, emergency-waiver and individual immigration routes are not normalized.","No eVisa, routine visa-on-arrival or universal electronic authorization is established. Consular issuance and final CBP admission remain required."],"sourceIds":["us-ecfr-current-nonimmigrant-document-requirements","us-govinfo-immigration-act-geographic-definition"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"us-current-ecfr-documentary-requirements","title":"8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants","url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-212/section-212.1","publisher":"U.S. Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"us-state-2026-pp10998-visa-suspension","title":"Suspension of visa issuance to foreign nationals under Presidential Proclamation 10998","url":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/suspension-of-visa-issuance-to-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states.html","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"us-white-house-2025-pp10998","title":"Presidential Proclamation 10998: Restricting and Limiting the Entry of Foreign Nationals","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/restricting-and-limiting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/","publisher":"The White House","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"us-code-2023-immigration-geographic-definition","title":"8 U.S.C. 1101: Immigration and Nationality Act definitions","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2023-title8/pdf/USCODE-2023-title8-chap12-subchapI-sec1101.pdf","publisher":"U.S. Government Publishing Office","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"us-ecfr-current-nonimmigrant-document-requirements","title":"8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants","url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-212/section-212.1","publisher":"eCFR, Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"us-govinfo-immigration-act-geographic-definition","title":"8 U.S.C. 1101: Immigration and Nationality Act definitions","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2023-title8/pdf/USCODE-2023-title8-chap12-subchapI-sec1101.pdf","publisher":"U.S. Government Publishing Office","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}