Costa Rica: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: At least 1 day after the day you plan to leave Costa Rica
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
At least 1 day after the day you plan to leave Costa Rica
Your passport must have an expiry date at least 1 day after the day you plan to leave Costa Rica — Certificate of entitlement for dual nationals returning to UK
Visa
Not required
Tourist visa waiver available — Up to 180 days at the discretion of the immigration officer on arrival — No visa cost mentioned; airport departure tax of 29 US dollars may apply when leaving by air
Your whole journey
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Vaccination required on entry
Yellow fever
Required if arriving from a country listed as a transmission risk
Yellow fever risk areas (WHO list)
Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad*, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia*, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya*, Liberia, Mali*, Mauritania*, Niger*, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan*, Togo, Uganda
Americas: Argentina*, Bolivia*, Brazil*, Colombia*, Ecuador*, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama*, Paraguay*, Peru*, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago*, Venezuela*
* only in parts of the country
A country may apply its own list: the official text above prevails.
Source: WHO, International Travel and Health, Annex 1, 18 November 2022, revised 3 January 2023 ↗