{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"IN","name":"India","slug":"india"},"destination":{"code":"NI","name":"Nicaragua"},"status":"visa_on_arrival","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"nicaragua-india-ordinary-passports-border-visa","title":"Nicaragua: Indian ordinary passports eligible for a border-issued visa","summary":"The current official CA-4 AIP schedule uniquely marks Indian ordinary passports Category B ‘consular or border-issued’. Nicaragua’s migration law likewise describes Category B as consular-without-consultation or border visa. The border-issued route is normalized as visa_on_arrival, not eVisa or ETA.","status":"visa_on_arrival","conditions":["The same ordinary-passport row also permits a consular route; this policy records the expressly available border-issued route as the nationality baseline.","The Special Tourist Card is a separate paid personal tourist document, is not an arrival visa, and is not valid for nationals subject to visa restrictions.","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","nicaragua-assembly-tourist-card-law"]}],"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"},{"id":"nicaragua-assembly-tourist-card-law","title":"Tourism-law provisions on the Special Tourist Card","url":"https://legislacion.asamblea.gob.ni/Normaweb.nsf/xpNorma.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=A25C313D96CCE48D062585EC00605116","publisher":"Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua","jurisdiction":"Nicaragua","kind":"law","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}