{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"MT","name":"Malta","slug":"malta"},"destination":{"code":"CR","name":"Costa Rica"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"costa-rica-2025-first-second-groups-ordinary-passports-visa-free","title":"Costa Rica: 2025 first and second group ordinary passports visa-free","summary":"Resolution AJ-484-11-2025 expressly places these nationalities in the first or second visa-free group. Only catalog country codes are mapped; territory/dependency wording conditioned on another country’s passport is not expanded.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["First-group admission is up to 180 days non-extendable, subject to the stated limited extension rule; second-group admission is up to 30 days, extendable up to 90.","First-group passports require the directive’s stated validity; second-group passports require at least 90 days. Honduras has a police-certificate condition; Salvador and Russia have their expressly stated special rules.","Machine-readable/biometric document, funds, return/onward ticket and admission controls apply. No residence, work, transit, crew, diplomatic, official/service, special-document or individual treatment is established."],"sourceIds":["costa-rica-dgme-current-visa-directives-2025","costa-rica-current-general-migration-law"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"costa-rica-dgme-current-visa-directives-2025","title":"DGME Resolution AJ-484-11-2025: general entry-visa directives for non-residents","url":"https://pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=105721&nValor3=148472&param1=NRTC&strTipM=TC","publisher":"Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica","jurisdiction":"Costa Rica","kind":"law","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"costa-rica-current-general-migration-law","title":"Costa Rica General Migration and Immigration Law No. 8764 (current consolidated text)","url":"https://pgrweb.go.cr/SCIJ/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=66139&nValor3=106652&param1=NRTC&strTipM=TC","publisher":"Procuraduría General de la República / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica","jurisdiction":"Costa Rica","kind":"law","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}