{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"PY","name":"Paraguay","slug":"paraguay"},"destination":{"code":"EC","name":"Ecuador"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-20","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"ecuador-named-south-american-ordinary-passports-180-day-visitor-exemption","title":"Named South American ordinary passports: visitor entry up to 180 days","summary":"The current exhaustive required-visa list does not include these named South American nationalities, and the Human Mobility Regulation allows South American tourists up to 180 days in a year.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["The 180-day figure is the maximum that migration control may grant to a South American tourist in one year; it is not a guaranteed stay or an authorization for employment or economic activity.","The classification rests on the Foreign Ministry's explicit current list of all nationalities for which Ecuador requires a visa, read with the visitor-stay rule. It does not establish national-identity-card use, residence, work, transit, diplomatic, official, emergency, refugee, or other special-document treatment.","Entry remains subject to presenting an identity-verifying travel document, migration-control verification of the invoked status, security and admissibility requirements, and any current health or carrier requirements."],"sourceIds":["ecuador-mfa-transitory-visitor-visa-2025","ecuador-mfa-mobility-regulation-tourist-stays"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"ecuador-mfa-transitory-visitor-visa-2025","title":"Ecuador will require a transitory visitor visa from 1 September 2025","url":"https://www.cancilleria.gob.ec/2025/08/30/ecuador-exigira-visa-de-transeunte-a-partir-del-1-de-septiembre-de-2025/","publisher":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility","jurisdiction":"Ecuador","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-20"},{"id":"ecuador-mfa-mobility-regulation-tourist-stays","title":"Regulation to the Organic Law on Human Mobility","url":"https://www.cancilleria.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/reglamento_a_la_ley_organica_de_movilidad_humana_23_marzo_de_2023.pdf","publisher":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility","jurisdiction":"Ecuador","kind":"law","language":"Spanish","reviewedAt":"2026-08-20"}]}