{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"JP","name":"Japan","slug":"japan"},"destination":{"code":"GT","name":"Guatemala"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"guatemala-category-a-named-ordinary-passports-visa-free","title":"Guatemala: named Category A ordinary passports visa-free","summary":"MINEX’s current ordinary-passport classification expressly marks these nationalities Category A, exempt from the Guatemalan visa requirement. The duplicate Andorra Category A/Category B entries are not normalized and remain unresolved.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["Category A travellers enter with a valid passport, but border admission remains subject to immigration control and applicable bilateral or multilateral arrangements.","The source provides no nationality-wide short-stay duration, port, fee, return/onward travel, funds, accommodation, health, extension or admissibility rule for this policy; none is inferred.","This ordinary-passport baseline excludes residence, work, study, family, business-only, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, stateless and other special-document routes.","The Category A row for the United Kingdom includes passport-wording conditions affecting British passports connected to Hong Kong. It does not directly establish the catalog’s HKSAR passport row."],"sourceIds":["guatemala-minex-current-visa-country-classification","guatemala-igm-current-country-category-guidance"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"guatemala-minex-current-visa-country-classification","title":"MINEX: Visas para extranjeros — current country classification","url":"https://www.minex.gob.gt/din/26-visas-para-extranjeros","publisher":"Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala","jurisdiction":"Guatemala","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"guatemala-igm-current-country-category-guidance","title":"Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración: Clasificación de países","url":"https://igm.gob.gt/clasificacion-de-paises/","publisher":"Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración","jurisdiction":"Guatemala","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}