Peru Travel information

Do you have specific questions about visiting Peru – such entry and exit demands, or places limited for vacation? Are you experiencing health concerns, or tend to be wondering about needed vaccinations? Get the most recent formal info on this and lots of other subjects pertaining to travel in Peru at division of State's nation particular Suggestions – Peru web page.

For crucial messages for U.S. people living and traveling in Peru, kindly read:

Entering and Departing Peru

A legitimate passport is needed to enter and depart Peru. Tourists additionally needs to supply proof return or onward vacation. Travelers to Peru will receive a card from Peruvian Immigration upon arrival stating along authorized stay (usually ninety days). Extensions are not available, and overstays will result in fines. Go to the Embassy of Peru website the most up to date visa information. Peru does not require any immunizations for entry, even though it advises vaccination against yellow fever.

The U.S. division of State is unaware of any HIV/AIDS entry restrictions for visitors to or foreign residents of Peru.

Small Kiddies

Small young ones with Peruvian citizenship vacationing with one or neither appropriate mother or father or legal guardian tend to be needed having consent from the non-traveling parent/guardian(s). In Peru, the non-travelling parent/guardian(s) can complete this process at most of the general public notaries or through travel authorization issued by a family court. In the us, the non-travelling parent/guardian(s) must look at the nearest Peruvian Consulate and complete a Permiso Notarial de Viaje. Please remember that these authorizations are legitimate for 30 days and another journey only.

If small son or daughter features just one legal moms and dad or guardian, the travelling parent/guardian must present evidence of single custody, also a completed Permiso Notarial de Viaje from a Peruvian notary or a Peruvian Consulate in the United States.

Peruvian immigration will nota child with Peruvian citizenship, regardless of if the kid can be a U.S. resident, to leave Peru with no appropriate Permiso Notarial de Viaje, therefore the Embassy is unable to help travelers who're avoided from taking a trip for decreased this document.

Replacing Peruvian Immigration Entry Stamps

Peruvian Immigration changed the procedure for travelers leaving Peru with an urgent situation or a full-validity passport given during their remain in Peru.

In situations of passports that have been lost or stolen, the traveler won't have the entry stamp with which they entered Peru. In situations of recently issued passports, the entry stamp will undoubtedly be into the cancelled passport. For that reason travelers must "move" the entry stamp to their brand-new passport before they truly are permitted to move across Peruvian immigration. Previously, people could finish this method within Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima. Today, people must take their new passport to Peruvian Immigration head office at Av. España 730, Breña, Lima, open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., to pay for and process the transfer. The current cost is approximately US$8.00 or S/.21.00.

Tourists probably know that Peruvian immigration authorities try not to allow departure from Peru until all immigration things, including fines and overstays, have now been resolved.

Contact Us

You can get international updates at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular matters website, where you can find the present Worldwide care, Travel Warnings and Travel Alerts.

Current information on security may also or, for callers outside the US and Canada, by calling the standard figures can be found from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. national vacations).

If you are a U.S. Citizen in Peru with an emergency, you can easily call our hotline at [011] (51-1) 618-2000.

Smart Traveler Enrollment System (STEP)

U.S. citizens should join the Smart Traveler Enrollment system (STEP). U.S. residents without internet accessibility may register straight at the closest U.S. Embassy. By enrolling, U.S. residents make it easier when it comes to embassy to contact all of them in case there is emergency.