Venezuela

Visa types: Work transient (transeúnte laboral, TR-L) — the work category. The key feature that sets it apart from the others: the work authorisation is issued not by the migration service but by the Ministry of Popular Power for the Social Process of Labour, and only then are the documents filed with SAIME (saime.gob.ve/extranjeria-2-2, renewals section). · Private-income transient (transeúnte rentista, TR-R) — for those living on lawful income or a pension. The threshold is named outright: a monthly income equivalent to 1,200 US dollars at the going rate, evidenced by a certification of lawful means of support. · Family transient (transeúnte familiar, TR-F) — the family category. The eligible relatives are listed exhaustively: the spouse, unemancipated children under 18, parents AND parents-in-law, on reliable proof of the family relationship. · Transient relative of a Venezuelan (transeúnte familiar venezolano, TR-F-V) — a separate category for relatives of citizens. For a spouse the documentary requirement is stricter than usual: the marriage certificate must be entered in the register of the country of origin, and a marriage contracted abroad must additionally be legalised in Venezuela. · Transient relative of a permanent migrant (transeúnte familiar migrante permanente, TR-F-M-P) — for relatives of a permanent-status holder; a reliable link to the resident relative must be evidenced. · Student transient (transeúnte estudiantil, TR-E) and extension of stay for study (TR-E-P). The second additionally requires a statement of grounds, evidence of lawful means of support for oneself and one's family, and an apostilled criminal record certificate. · Religious transient (transeúnte religioso, TR-REL) — requires a current worship authorisation from the Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace. · Resident (CRES) — the permanent status, which SAIME's own documents also call "permanent migrant". Its renewal condition is unusual and worth knowing in advance: the holder must not have spent more than 90 days inside the country, and the application is accompanied by a ticket departing Venezuela. Neither SAIME nor the foreign ministry publishes the number of years of prior residence that qualifies for this status — see the note to this section. · Tourist visa — issued for leisure, medical treatment or activity not involving remuneration or profit; obtained at a consulate rather than from SAIME. The foreign ministry's list of requirements is longer than usual: a passport valid for at least six months, a document evidencing residence in the country of origin, a bank letter stating the account opening date, number and balance, an employer's letter with length of service, position and salary, copies of property title deeds, a return ticket, a medical certificate from the health authority of the country of origin, and a hotel booking or a notarised letter of invitation (mppre.gob.ve/detalle_turismo/4).

The immigration system is split between two authorities, and that shapes the whole procedure: the visa is issued by a consulate abroad (the foreign ministry, mppre.gob.ve), while status inside the country is administered by SAIME, the Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Foreigners (saime.gob.ve). Statuses divide into transients (transeúnte), carrying letter codes by ground of stay, and residents (CRES). What the published material does not contain: neither SAIME nor the foreign ministry names statutory processing times. The "Extranjería", "Migración" and "Trámites en línea" pages and the SAIME services section were checked, along with the ministry's visa page — none of them contains "día", "plazo", "lapso" or "tiempo de respuesta". Fees are not published either: the ministry's page refers applicants explicitly to the particular mission for the consular fee. The qualifying period for permanent status is set by the Aliens and Migration Act, but its text is on no accessible official platform: tsj.gob.ve and consuladovirtual.mppre.gob.ve do not respond at all, and the SAIME and ministry sites publish no legal texts. prYears is therefore left empty — this is an inaccessible source, not an established absence of the status: the status exists and SAIME's own documents call it "permanent migrant". **Added on 24.08.2026, when the grounds were laid out into fields.** The visa catalogue sits on the foreign ministry's site at addresses of the form `mppre.gob.ve/descripcion/<number>`, and every page is built the same way: what the ground is for, the list of documents (recaudos), and a closing note carrying the validity of the visa, the number of entries and the length of stay allowed. Thirteen grounds, and all thirteen have been carried into records: the transit visa (V-T), good for seventy-two hours, is not in itself a ground for moving, but it belongs to the same catalogue and carries the same fee as the tourist visa. On top of the thirteen consular grounds, two SAIME procedures that the foreign ministry does not list at all have been added — TR-E-P and the extension of resident status (CRES). **The note at the foot of the page is boilerplate, and on three pages out of thirteen it names SOMEONE ELSE'S visa.** On the businessperson's page the note speaks of “the person of independent means visa”, on the page for the family of a permanent migrant it speaks of “the family of a Venezuelan”, and on the business visa page it speaks of “the tourist visa”. The numbers differ, though: two years' validity and four non-extendable months of stay per entry for the businessperson, a word-for-word copy of the family-of-a-Venezuelan note for the family of a permanent migrant, one year's validity and ninety days of stay on the business page. The tourist visa itself has no note about its term at all: its term is printed on the business visa's page. That is why the validity is left empty on those four records — what names another ground by name cannot be attributed to this one. **What is published firmly.** One year's validity with multiple entries — for the worker, the person of independent means, the student, the religious worker, the family member of a Venezuelan and the domestic employee of a diplomat. Three years and NO limit on the length of stay — for the investor's visa; no other Venezuelan ground combines the two. Six months with a single entry — for the re-entry visa. For most grounds the extension is asked not of the consulate but of the ministry of interior, justice and peace, and it must be asked at least two months before the term runs out. **A medical certificate from the country of origin is required almost everywhere** — it stands in the list for all thirteen consular grounds, and for the religious worker an apostille and a separate vaccination certificate are added on top, the yellow fever one especially. It is the catalogue's only common requirement; everything else differs from ground to ground. **The renewal procedure SAIME does publish is damaged in places by copying.** On the “Extranjería” page ten procedures are laid out in two columns: renewals of TR-E, TR-L, TR-R, TR-F-V, TR-F-M-P, TR-REL, TR-F, the tourist extension, the resident extension (CRES) and the extension of stay for study (TR-E-P). For the resident extension the list of requirements matches the tourist one word for word — including the condition “not to have been more than 90 days inside the national territory” and a ticket out of Venezuela. For the holder of permanent status such a condition is meaningless, and it is not a quirk of the procedure but a block carried over from the neighbouring column. **The page `saime.gob.ve/extranjeria2/` is listed among the site's pages but returns 404.** The working address is `extranjeria-2`. The discrepancy is worth remembering: links to the new address appear in the site's own menu. **A tariff does exist after all, but it lives in a legal act rather than on the ministry's site, and it never names the transient visas.** Foreign ministry resolution DM No. 103 of 17.10.2022 (Gaceta Oficial No. 42,485 of 18.10.2022) sets four rates for consular offices abroad: 90 US dollars for verifying or legalising a document, 120 for issuing or renewing a passport, 50 for granting an entry visa as a tourist or in transit, and 60 for "any other declaration or act". The act never once names the transient (TR-*) visas, so eleven of the thirteen consular grounds have no printed price at all — and applying the "any other act" rate to them would mean deciding on the authority's behalf. The text of the resolution itself is a scan with no text layer inside the Gaceta issue; it is absent from the ministry's own site and was posted by the Venezuelan embassy in France, which also prints the four amounts in words. The same embassy warns that the rate is converted locally: since 01.08.2022 the mission applies a rate of 1 dollar = 1 euro. **The network of consular sites on `*.consulado.gob.ve` is infected with advertising spam.** The Venezuelan consulate domains (madrid, medellin, milan, napoles and the rest) are one and the same WordPress copy sharing page numbers, and since 29.08.2026 their news feed has been carrying online-casino posts in Polish, French, Spanish and Russian, joined on 01.09.2026 by a post titled "test". The service pages themselves are intact, but the network cannot be used as a source — and not only because of the infection: the requirements on the TR-L work visa page carry the condition of the FAMILY visa ("to be a relative of a foreigner holding a transient worker visa"), six cards in the visa index are described in Lorem ipsum filler text, and the "Métodos de pago" page still prices the fee in petros at a November 2021 rate. Everything taken into the records was taken from the ministry itself and from SAIME.

Document certification

apostille

The country is party to the 1961 Hague Convention: a degree or certificate is authenticated with a single apostille in the country that issued it.

Limit

no limit

Quarantine

no

Antibody titre test

not needed

The requirements are read from the bilateral form "Veterinary Health Certificate for Export of Dogs and Cats from the United States of America to Venezuela", October 2021 revision. The veterinary examination takes place within ten days before departure, and it attests to the absence of parasitic as well as infectious disease — wording broader than usual. Rabies vaccination is mandatory except for dogs under four months of age. Beyond rabies the form requires a list of vaccinations: for dogs against distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirus and parainfluenza virus; for cats against rhinotracheitis, calicivirus and pneumonitis. The certificate is valid for fourteen days from the date of issue and is made out in duplicate. The form provides for neither antibody titration nor quarantine on arrival, sets no limit on the number of animals, names no banned breeds, and establishes no minimum interval between vaccination and travel. The source is a bilateral veterinary certificate that the U.S. authority (APHIS) publishes as the form the receiving side accepts; the requirements are read from its mandatory fields and attestations. This describes import FROM the United States: the values (vaccination intervals, certificate validity) are set by the receiving side and do not depend on the country of departure, while the procedural part — accreditation of the veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and endorsement by APHIS — is replaced by the equivalent of whatever country the animal leaves from. Read on 06.08.2026.

Bread, 500 g

$ 1,95

Milk, 1 l

$ 2,36

Eggs, 12

$ 3,21

Chicken breast, 1 kg

$ 7,64

Cheese, 1 kg

$ 7,13

Rice, 1 kg

$ 1,53

Potatoes, 1 kg

$ 2,09

Apples, 1 kg

$ 5,84

Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 l

$ 2,15

Total

$ 33,9

The same set for every country, so the comparison is fair.

Rent, 1 bedroom

$ 247 a month

Rent, 3 bedrooms

$ 520 a month

Utility bills

$ 27,3 a month

Home internet

$ 32,6 a month

Monthly transport pass

$ 31,2 a month

Single transport ticket

$ 0,43

Petrol, litre

$ 0,66

Cold medicine

$ 7,76 for a week

Country averages. City prices, where collected, are shown above and are more precise.

Life expectancy

72,7 years2024

Homicides

13,8 per 100k2023

Road deaths

13,2 per 100k2021

Unemployment

5,3 %2025

Unemployment, ages 15–24

10,4 %2025

Health spending per person

$ 186 a year

Air pollution, PM2.5

19,2 µg/m³2023

Access to clean water

93,3 %2024

Internet, fixed line

114,2 Mbit/s2026

Internet, mobile

28,4 Mbit/s2026

Governance

Political stability

low · -1,7

Control of corruption

low · -1,6

Rule of law

low · -2,2

Government effectiveness

low · -1,5

World Bank estimates on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale, higher is better.

Natural hazards

Earthquakes

8,1 out of 10

River floods

5,7 out of 10

Coastal floods

6,7 out of 10

Tropical cyclones

5,6 out of 10

Droughts

1,9 out of 10

Tsunamis

5,4 out of 10

Each value carries the year it refers to. “Data lags behind” means this country's figure was collected noticeably earlier than the rest. Natural hazards use one 0–10 scale and are meant to be compared against each other.

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