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Suriname visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 20266 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free177Visa required21
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199 passports

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1

Visa-free

177

Visa required

21
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  1. Visa required

    Suriname: 21 named ordinary-passport nationalities subject to visa requirement

    Government guidance identifies these 21 nationalities as outside the unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023, and BIBIS confirms that a visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries. This records a visa-required baseline, not an eVisa or visa-on-arrival route.

    • The Government directly names this closed 21-nationality cohort as excluded from the unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023; BIBIS confirms the visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries.
    • This is normalized as visa_required, not evisa: the official explanation calls the system a digital visa application system but does not establish electronically issued ordinary-tourism visas for this entire cohort. BIBIS separately says visa-required travellers may not travel without a valid visa. No visa-on-arrival route is stated.
    • The Entry Fee is a separate fee/voucher mechanism. It is not treated as a visa, ETA, eVisa or visa-on-arrival status, and it does not displace the stated visa requirement.
    • For Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, BIBIS says a tourist card was reintroduced alongside the visa for tourist, business and short-stay travel. The card is recorded only as an additional condition, not a separate normalized status.
    • The Government separately states an Entry Fee of USD 50 or EUR 50 plus a VFS Global service fee of USD 8 or EUR 8, payable at each entry; it is not a visa fee or visa category. No visa duration, entries, extension, port, admission result, health, funds or onward-travel condition is inferred. Residence, PSA, transit, CARICOM, diplomatic, service, special, official, international-organization, business, work and third-country-document exceptions are outside this ordinary visitor baseline.
    21 passport nationalities covered

    Dominican Republic, India, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Angola, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Eritrea, Somalia, Egypt, Tunisia, Cuba, Syria

    Official sourcesGovernment of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: travel to Suriname and named visa-abrogation exceptionsMinistry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: explanation of the visa and tourist-card procedureMinistry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: Entry Fee procedure and valid-visa requirement
  2. Visa-free

    Suriname: ordinary passports outside the named 21-country exception visa-free for tourism or family visits

    The Government established unilateral visa abolition for all foreign nationalities for tourist or family visits, while current Ministry guidance names an exhaustive 21-country exception from 1 May 2023. The remaining catalog foreign ordinary-passport rows are therefore visa-free under that stated general rule and closed exception.

    • This policy applies only to foreign ordinary passports outside the current named 21-country exception and only to tourism or family visits, for a maximum stay of 90 days.
    • The 2022 general rule expressly covered all foreign nationalities; the current Ministry page identifies the precise nationalities for which it ceased to apply from 1 May 2023. No rule is inferred merely from omission.
    • The Entry Fee is a separate fee/voucher mechanism, not an ETA, eVisa, visa on arrival or visa-free exception. The Ministry says its PDF voucher is electronically sent after online payment; that issuance concerns the fee only.
    • Business, internship, work, residence, PSA, transit, diplomatic, service, special, official, international-organization and third-country-document routes are outside this ordinary tourist/family baseline. Final admission and other travel-document requirements are not established here.
    177 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Iceland, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Croatia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, Chile, Andorra, Hong Kong (SAR China), Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, The Bahamas, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Vatican City, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Panama, St. Lucia, Grenada, Paraguay, Ukraine, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Dominica, Macao (SAR China), Solomon Islands, Serbia, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Samoa, Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Honduras, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Kiribati, Micronesia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Palau Islands, Moldova, Russian Federation, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, Timor-Leste, Ecuador, Kuwait, Maldives, Fiji, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, Nauru, Vanuatu, Bahrain, Guyana, Jamaica, Oman, China, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Belarus, Thailand, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, Malawi, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Rwanda, Armenia, Philippines, Mongolia, Cape Verde Islands, Uganda, Benin, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Togo, Gabon, Niger, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Mauritania, Vietnam, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Congo (Rep.), Algeria, Comoro Islands, Jordan, Liberia, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Haiti, Bhutan, Burundi, Laos, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, Djibouti, Myanmar, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Ethiopia, Iran, South Sudan, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Yemen, Iraq

    Official sourcesGovernment of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: unilateral visa abolition for all foreign nationalitiesGovernment of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: travel to Suriname and named visa-abrogation exceptionsMinistry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: explanation of the visa and tourist-card procedure
  3. Visa required

    Suriname: 21 named ordinary-passport nationalities subject to visa requirement

    Current Government guidance identifies these 21 nationalities as excluded from unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023, and BIBIS confirms their visa requirement was reinstated. This is a visa-required baseline, not a visa-on-arrival policy or a finding of electronically issued visas.

    • The Government directly names this closed 21-nationality cohort as excluded from unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023; BIBIS confirms the visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries.
    • The Government’s E-Visa directory and BIBIS explanation establish an authorized online application service, but the opened official workflow does not state that a final ordinary visitor visa for this whole cohort is issued electronically. It is consequently normalized as visa_required, not evisa.
    • No visa-on-arrival route is stated. The separate Government Entry Fee voucher is not treated as a visa, ETA, eVisa or visa-on-arrival status, and does not displace the visa requirement.
    • For Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, BIBIS says a tourist card was reintroduced alongside the visa for tourist, business and short-stay travel. This alternate document is retained as a condition, not a separate normalized status.
    • No visa duration, entries, extension, port, admission result, health, funds or onward-travel condition is inferred. Residence, PSA, transit, CARICOM, diplomatic, service, special, official, international-organization, business, work and third-country-document exceptions are outside this ordinary visitor baseline.
    21 passport nationalities covered

    Dominican Republic, India, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Angola, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Eritrea, Somalia, Egypt, Tunisia, Cuba, Syria

    Official sourcesGovernment of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: travel to Suriname and named visa-abrogation exceptionsMinistry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: explanation of the visa and tourist-card procedureGovernment of the Republic of Suriname: Government e-services directory: E-Visa
  4. Current official routeCitizenship

    Suriname nationals entering Suriname

    The Surinamese civil-registration authority identifies the national passport and expressly ties emergency-passport eligibility to Surinamese nationality. This records the catalog home-nationality relationship, not a foreign visitor permission.

    • This is the citizenship/home relationship for a Surinamese national ordinary passport, not a finding about visa-free visitor admission or a substitute for travel-document, exit, criminal, health or final-entry rules.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Suriname

    Official sourceDirectoraat Burgerzaken, Ministry of Home Affairs, Republic of Suriname: Directoraat Burgerzaken: national passport and Surinamese nationality