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Entry Requirements Checker

Most trips that fall apart at an airport fall apart over paperwork, not planes. Pick the passport you are travelling on and where you are going, and this page shows what we could verify from official government sources: whether you need a visa and for how long, how much passport validity is required, whether an onward ticket is actually enforced, any mandatory tourist card or electronic form with its cost and the one official place to do it, and any departure tax. It also says, out loud, which passport and destination pairs we could not verify, because a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. For Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the national parks it gives the honest answer rather than pretending they are foreign countries.

Choose a passport and a destination and the answer will appear here.

Read this before you act on anything above. All of it was checked against official government pages on 23 October 2026 and every answer carries the official link. Entry rules change without notice, and often without any dated announcement. We are a travel guide, not an immigration authority, and nothing here is legal or immigration advice. Confirm on the official page before you book, and again before you fly. Where we could not verify a passport and destination pair from an official source we say so rather than guessing.

What we have verified, and what we have not

This grid is the honest version of the tool. Verified means an official government source speaks for that exact passport and that exact destination. Destination source means the destination's own government states it, but not the body that actually issues its visas. Not verified means we found no official source for that pair and will not interpolate from a similar country — the tool shows you the official links instead. The destination-wide rules, such as passport validity, onward tickets, mandatory forms and departure taxes, are sourced separately and generally apply to all foreign tourists.

Visa-rule verification by passport and destination, as of 23 October 2026
Destination United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomIrelandAustraliaNew ZealandEU / Schengen
Peru Y?Y????
Costa Rica Y?Y????
Dominican Republic YDYD??D
Honduras YYY?Y??
Puerto Rico YYYYYYY
Hawaii YYYYYYY
US national parks YYYYYYY

Y verified · D destination source · ? not verified. The three US destinations share one row of answers because they share one border.

How this works, and what it does not cover

Two different kinds of rule sit behind every answer, and keeping them apart is the whole point of the tool. The first is the visa question, which depends on your nationality. There is no single official register of who needs a visa for where: each destination decides, and most publish it badly or not in a form a machine can read. So the sources here are, in order of preference, the destination's own immigration authority, then the official diplomatic mission, then the traveller's own foreign ministry — which has the advantage of being authoritative about its own citizens and the limitation of speaking for nobody else. That is why a US passport and a British passport are both marked verified for Peru while a New Zealand passport is not: the US State Department and the UK FCDO each publish the rule for their own nationals, and no official page we could read covers the others.

The second kind is the destination-wide rule: how much passport validity is demanded, whether an onward ticket is required, which forms are mandatory, what the departure tax is. These generally apply to every foreign tourist regardless of nationality, so one good source covers everyone, and they are the conditions people actually trip over. Costa Rica's onward-ticket requirement is listed by the State Department under general entry requirements rather than as a tip, and airlines enforce it at check-in because they carry the cost of a refused passenger. Costa Rica's passport rule, by contrast, is unusually relaxed: it only has to outlast your stay, with no six-month buffer, which is the opposite of Peru, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, all of which want six months.

Where the money goes, and where it does not

Mandatory electronic forms are a magnet for resellers, so the tool always names the single official domain. The Dominican E-Ticket is free — the Ministry of Tourism says so in terms — and lives only at eticket.migracion.gob.do; one submission covers entry and exit and up to seven family members. Honduras requires a customs declaration before you enter or leave, filed on the Aduanas site, and Australia's government also describes an immigration pre-check form that the UK and Canadian pages do not mention, so the tool shows the first as required and the second as single-source with both links. ESTA for the United States costs US$40.62, a figure CBP uses on its own FAQ, and should be bought only at esta.cbp.dhs.gov. Departure taxes are mostly already in your fare: Costa Rica's US$29 and the Dominican US$20 normally are, Honduras publishes a US$40 to US$55 range that varies by airport, and Peru's Lima transit fee is the odd one out because it is explicitly not included in tickets.

Assumptions, stated plainly

Every answer assumes an ordinary tourist visit on an ordinary adult passport, arriving by scheduled commercial flight, not working, studying, volunteering or transiting to a third country. Dual nationals, diplomatic and official passports, residents, cruise arrivals and land borders are outside the scope except where an official source specifically addresses them, as with the Honduran cruise "short pass" and the Dominican exemption of cruise and private-flight passengers from the E-Ticket. Where two governments give slightly different numbers, as with the stay Peru grants, the tool reports the rule and attributes the numbers rather than averaging them.

Not covered

No visa applications, no fees paid, no documents checked, no accounts, no data sent anywhere — everything runs in your browser. We do not cover yellow fever certificate requirements, because they depend on where you have been before arriving and the lists differ between sources; we do not cover travel with minors, which has strict notarised-consent rules in Peru, Honduras and the Dominican Republic; and we say nothing about US domestic identification rules for a US citizen flying to Puerto Rico or Hawaii, because we did not verify the current position. Park entrance fees and timed-entry reservations are not entry requirements and belong elsewhere. Everything we could not confirm is written out in the research note, pair by pair, with its sources.

Data last verified 2026-10-23. Prices, hours and rules change; confirm with the official source before you go.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the Dominican Republic E-Ticket really free?

Yes. The Dominican Ministry of Tourism states in terms that the electronic entry and exit form is free, and the only official portal is eticket.migracion.gob.do, run by the Dirección General de Migración. It is mandatory for every passenger, Dominican or foreign, arriving or leaving on a commercial flight, and one submission covers both directions and up to seven family members. A great many lookalike sites sell to fill it in for you, typically for twenty to sixty dollars; they are resellers, not the government, and some simply take the money. There is no 72-hour deadline any more either: complete it as soon as you have flight details, but before you reach the airline counter, because the airline will ask for the QR code. Cruise, ferry and private-flight passengers do not need it and use the paper forms.

Does leaving Honduras for Nicaragua or Guatemala reset my 90 days?

No, and this is the most misunderstood rule in Central America. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua share one pool of days under the CA-4 Border Control Agreement. The US State Department says you may travel between the four "for up to 90 days in total"; the UK FCDO spells out the consequence: "The 90-day period starts when you enter any of these countries and does not restart when you cross borders." Two further points catch people out. The 90 days are a ceiling, not a grant — the Canadian government says the officer at your first CA-4 entry point decides the actual length, and the FCDO reports British travellers routinely getting a 30-day stamp. And an extension is one-time, must be requested before your stay expires, and Honduras recognises a maximum total of 120 days. Expulsion from any one of the four excludes you from all four.

Do I need a passport to fly to Puerto Rico or Hawaii?

If you hold a US passport, no — neither is a foreign country. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated US territory and Hawaii is a US state, so there is no immigration control, no visa, no form and no passport requirement on a flight from the mainland. You do still need identification the airline and TSA will accept for a domestic flight, and we have deliberately not stated what that currently is because we did not verify the present ID rules from TSA. For every other passport the question is not what Puerto Rico or Hawaii require but what the United States requires: a Visa Waiver Program passport plus an approved ESTA, or a visitor visa. One trap is worth naming: an EU passport is not automatically an ESTA passport. Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania are absent from the DHS list of VWP countries.

Why does this tool say "not verified" for some passports?

Because a wrong answer here can cost someone a trip, and interpolating from a similar country is how wrong answers get made. Peru, Costa Rica and Honduras publish no per-nationality visa table that we could read from an official page, so for several passports our only official sources are the traveller's own foreign ministry — and those ministries only speak for their own citizens. Where we have an official source for your exact passport and destination we say so and link it. Where we do not, we say that too, and we send you to the destination's immigration authority and to your own government rather than filling the gap with a guess. The destination-wide rules on the same screen, such as passport validity, onward tickets and mandatory forms, generally apply to all foreign tourists and are sourced separately.

Costa Rica asked for an onward ticket. Is that normal?

It is the rule, not an airline whim. The US State Department lists "Return ticket or proof of onward travel to another country" under Costa Rica's general entry requirements. Airlines enforce it at check-in because they bear the cost if you are refused entry, so a one-way ticket is a common reason travellers are stopped at the gate rather than at the border. A dated onward booking by bus or boat counts. Two more Costa Rican details that surprise people: the passport validity rule is unusually relaxed — it only has to outlast your stay, with no six-month requirement — and there is a US$29 departure tax by air, which most airlines now build into the fare. Check your fare breakdown before you queue to pay it twice.

How current is this, and who is behind it?

Everything here was checked against official government pages on 23 October 2026, and each answer carries the link so you can see the source for yourself. We are a travel guide site, not an immigration authority, and we have no way to see rules that changed after that date — entry requirements change without notice and often without a dated announcement. Treat every answer as a prompt to open the official link and confirm before you book, and confirm again before you fly. Two live examples of why: the Dominican passport-validity concession expires on 31 December 2026 with no published replacement, and the UK says British citizens need a Honduran visa while the US, Canadian and Australian governments say their citizens do not.