Entry Requirements & Customs

In order to enter and/or leave Peruvian territory, the following specifications must be taken into account:

South America

Citizens of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay who travel to Peru for tourism purposes, may enter Peru carrying only their physical national identity card.
Citizens of nationalities other than those indicated in the previous point are required to have a passport valid for at least 6 months.
Citizens of Venezuela need to have some kind of visa to enter Peru, unless they have permanent residence in a member country of the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia or Mexico).
Regarding the tourist visa, the maximum period of stay for most countries is 90 days, except for Brazil and Chile, which have a maximum period of 180 days.
Regarding the business visa, only Brazil, Colombia and Chile do not need to apply for it, the rest of the countries in the region must initiate the respective application process.

Central America

Citizens of Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua do need to apply for a tourist visa to enter Peru. Citizens of other nationalities are only required to have a passport valid for at least 6 months.
Only Panama is exempt from presenting a business visa.
The maximum period of stay is 90 days for those who do not need a visa to enter Peruvian territory.

North America (Mexico)

Mexican citizens are not required to apply for a tourist or business visa if they wish to visit Peru, they only need to have a passport valid for at least 6 months.
The maximum length of stay is 183 days.

Spanish-speaking Europe

k) Spanish citizens are not required to apply for a tourist or business visa if they wish to visit Peru, they only need to have a passport valid for at least 6 months.
l) The maximum period of stay is 90 days.

If applicable:

Travel document or Laissez Passer validly issued by a State or in consideration of international treaties and conventions to which Peru is a party, for humanitarian reasons.
Valid laissez-passer validly issued by a State and only for exceptional reasons established in international treaties and conventions to which Peru is a party, or by provision of the State issuing the laissez-passer, provided that Peru has recognized and accepted such conditions. The valid laissez-passer issued by Migration is also valid.
Travel document for refugees or asylum seekers issued by Peru or other States within the framework of international treaties and conventions to which Peru is a party.
Foreign identity document in force, in accordance with the international treaties and conventions to which Peru is a party that regulate and define the cases in which it will be applied.
Other travel documents in force, in accordance with the international treaties and conventions to which Peru is a party that regulate and define the cases in which it will be applied.

Duty-free baggage

According to Peruvian customs regulations, used or new articles that a traveller may reasonably need for his use or consumption, and which by their nature, quantity and variety are not presumed to be for commercial use, are considered duty-free baggage.

When entering Peru, the traveller must duly fill out the Baggage Affidavit, only in the event that he/she has any goods or articles to declare, in which he/she must indicate all the articles that must pay taxes.