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Travelling to Curaçao

Whether you need a visa depends on your nationality, and how long you can stay as a tourist depends on the rule that applies to you. Here are the entry requirements, what is checked at the border, how to extend your stay and how to travel with a residence permit or with minors.

Procedures

• Short Stay (Kort Verblijf) from XCG 535
• Tourist - Extension of Tourist Stay
• Proof of Return (for traveling while an extension is being processed) from XCG 225
• Traveling with a minor (documents depending on custody situation)

Articles

• Do you need a visa for Curaçao? The list by country (2026)Colombians, Peruvians, Ecuadorians and Mexicans can enter without a visa. Venezuelans, Dominicans, Cubans, Haitians, Bolivians, Chinese and Indian nationals need one,…
• What they actually check when you enter Curaçao (and how not to get stuck at the airport)What an immigration officer can ask for when you land in Curaçao (passport, DI Card, visa, vaccine, money and insurance), and what happens if you don't have it.
• Travelling on your Curaçao residence permit: Aruba, Bonaire, the Netherlands and what the permit does not give youA Curaçao permit opens the other islands of the Kingdom without a Caribbean visa, but not Europe: for the Netherlands your passport's rules apply. What Aruba and Bonaire…
• Working remotely from Curaçao: the short-stay permit for digital nomadsThe tourist limit for most Latin Americans is 30 days. To stay up to 6 months working for an employer or clients abroad there is the short stay as a remote worker: XCG…

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General information, not legal advice. Every procedure page cites its official source and says when it was reviewed.