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Uruguay 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-free85Visa required113
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

85

Visa required

113
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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Uruguay: named ordinary passports visa-free

    The Ministry of Interior’s current common-passport schedule expressly marks these passport issuers as not needing a visa for temporary admission. This is a visa-free baseline, not an eVisa, ETA or visa-on-arrival route.

    • The schedule is limited to the ordinary/common-passport column. Passport type, purpose, activity and duration footnotes remain applicable.
    • For South Korea, Dominica, Guyana, Latvia, Russia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the no-visa treatment is tourist-only or subject to prior consultation for work or stays beyond the stated period; this candidate records only the short visitor baseline.
    • Malaysia has 30-day temporary admission without a visa. Hong Kong is covered only for passports marked HKSAR, which directly matches the catalog’s HKSAR passport. Macao is expressly exempt for its common passport and travel document.
    • No eVisa, ETA or visa-on-arrival route is identified by the cited nationality schedule. Residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, stateless, third-country-document and final-admission cases are excluded.
    85 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Malaysia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, United States, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Chile, Cyprus, Andorra, Argentina, Hong Kong (SAR China), Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Israel, St. Kitts and Nevis, The Bahamas, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Vatican City, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Dominica, Macao (SAR China), Peru, Serbia, Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Georgia, Venezuela, Russian Federation, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Bolivia, Armenia, Mongolia

    Official sourceMinisterio del Interior / Dirección Nacional de Migración: Ministry of Interior: Admission-visa regime
  2. Current official routeVisa required

    Uruguay: named and explicit-residual ordinary passports require advance visa

    The current Ministry of Interior schedule expressly marks these ordinary passports as needing a visa or, for passport issuers not in its named exemption list, applies its explicit rule that the remaining countries need a visa. The normalized baseline is visa_required: the official process is consular and advance, not eVisa or visa on arrival.

    • The schedule footnote says these marked (5) require prior authorization. The policy remains visa_required whether the authority labels the advance route as prior authorization or consular visa.
    • Palestine’s ordinary-passport row says admission is granted with prior consultation; the Foreign Ministry’s current prior-consultation process is a consular visa process, so it is likewise normalized as visa_required.
    • The Foreign Ministry says a tourist-visa applicant must request a consular interview in advance; after authorization the visa is stamped in the passport. An appointment, form, document upload or processing inquiry is not an eVisa.
    • Taiwan’s row says a travel certificate has been required since 5 December 2018; this does not establish a visa-free, eVisa or visa-on-arrival route.
    • The schedule lists conditional visa exemptions for specified Dominican and PRC passport holders with valid third-country visas and port restrictions. Those conditional third-country-document routes are excluded and do not alter this nationality-only baseline.
    • Residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, stateless, special-document and final-admission cases are excluded.
    112 passport nationalities covered

    Brunei, Antigua and Barbuda, Mauritius, St. Lucia, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, North Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Micronesia, Kiribati, Moldova, Palau Islands, Timor-Leste, Kuwait, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Bahrain, Nauru, Oman, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, China, Belarus, Thailand, Suriname, Lesotho, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Indonesia, Malawi, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, The Gambia, Rwanda, Philippines, Zambia, Tunisia, Uganda, Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Burkina Faso, India, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Togo, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Vietnam, Algeria, Cameroon, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Angola, Jordan, Liberia, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Burundi, Haiti, Laos, Egypt, Djibouti, Myanmar, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian Territory, Nepal, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesMinisterio del Interior / Dirección Nacional de Migración: Ministry of Interior: Admission-visa regimeMinisterio de Relaciones Exteriores: Foreign Ministry: Tourist visa application for entry to UruguayMinisterio de Relaciones Exteriores: Foreign Ministry: prior-consultation visa process
  3. Current official routeCitizenship

    Uruguayan citizens: citizenship entry status

    Uruguay's Foreign Ministry supplies a one-way return travel document to Uruguayan nationals or legal citizens whose travel document is unavailable. An ordinary Uruguayan passport therefore represents citizenship, not a foreign visitor-visa route.

    • This is supported by the Foreign Ministry's direct return-document route, rather than inferred solely from matching catalog codes.
    • It does not determine treatment of a dual national presenting a different passport, individual document-validity issues, departure controls, residence, or any foreign visitor status.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Uruguay

    Official sourceMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay: Válido por un solo viaje de regreso a la República (salvoconducto)
  4. Current official routeVisa required

    Kosovo ordinary passports: Uruguay advance consular visa

    Uruguay's current exhaustive common-passport schedule requires citizens of countries absent from the table, including Kosovo, to obtain a consular visa before travel.

    • Applies to a valid ordinary Kosovo passport for a short visitor trip; diplomatic, official, service, refugee, alien and other travel documents are outside this finding.
    • Uruguay's schedule expressly requires a prior consular visa for citizens of countries not present in its common-passport table, and Kosovo is not present.
    • Apply through a competent Uruguayan consulate before travel; the current consular procedure says applications must be made at least 30 business days before the trip.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Kosovo

    Official sourcesMinistry of the Interior: Uruguay Ministry of the Interior: Admission visa regimeMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Uruguay Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Application for a visa to enter Uruguay