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Costa Rica visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 20262 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free95Visa required103
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

95

Visa required

103
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One group agreement or destination policy can support many passport relationships. Dates are recorded only when an official source establishes them.

  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Costa Rica: 2025 first and second group ordinary passports visa-free

    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.

    • 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.
    95 passport nationalities covered

    Germany, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Qatar, United States, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Monaco, San Marino, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Czechia, South Korea, Greece, Romania, Vatican City, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Uruguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, El Salvador, Brunei, Russian Federation, Philippines, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau Islands, Tonga, Samoa, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Suriname, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Tuvalu, Türkiye, Vanuatu

    Official sourcesDirección General de Migración y Extranjería / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: DGME Resolution AJ-484-11-2025: general entry-visa directives for non-residentsProcuraduría General de la República / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: Costa Rica General Migration and Immigration Law No. 8764 (current consolidated text)
  2. Current official routeVisa required

    Costa Rica: consular, restricted and residual foreign ordinary passports require advance visa

    Resolution AJ-484-11-2025 expressly puts named nationalities into consular or restricted groups and puts every country not named in a group into the restricted group. The normalized baseline is advance visa required; this is not eVisa or visa on arrival.

    • Third-group consular visas and fourth-group Commission-authorized restricted visas are single-entry, passport-stamped advance visas; both normally allow up to 30 days subject to the directive.
    • The directive’s special China, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela provisions and all US/Canada/Japan/Schengen/EEA/UK multiple-entry visa or residence-document exceptions are conditional and are not normalized as passport-wide access.
    • Passport validity, funds, onward ticket, no-entry-ban and border admissibility requirements apply. Residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official/service and special-document routes are excluded.
    103 passport nationalities covered

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Congo (Dem. Rep.), Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Hong Kong (SAR China), India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macao (SAR China), North Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, eSwatini, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Palestinian Territory

    Official sourcesDirección General de Migración y Extranjería / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: DGME Resolution AJ-484-11-2025: general entry-visa directives for non-residentsProcuraduría General de la República / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: Costa Rica General Migration and Immigration Law No. 8764 (current consolidated text)