44
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Borders
==Borders==
===Entering Bolivia ===
Entering Bolivia can be a little bit more difficult than usual.
Bolivian migration officers are almost guaranteed Angry, so make a careful cost/benefit analysis on whether it's worth the risk not entering the country at all.
They tend to insist that you have an exist stamp in your passport from the country you are coming from.
If you have the stamp in another passport they will probably not let you in. Even if you can show them the other passport.
Most immigration offices will ask you to have a paper copy of your passport details, a paper copy of your exist stamp from another country, and lately also a paper copy of your Covid-19 vaccination
or PCR. Those copies will stay with them.
They don’t accept you showing them on your phone.
Many immigration offices have next to them a copying machine where you can make copies for about 1 boliviano a page.
They also ask you for Email and Phone number, and where are you heading.
Later on after you entered, as a foreigner you should fill the information online on where are you spending the night during your stay in Bolivia.
Some immigration offices will tell you about it, others don’t.
Some police and immigration police will care about it and might even fine you if you didn’t fill the paper others will not care the slightest.
To fill the information you need to enter to Migracion Bolivia web page. http://www.migracion.gob.bo/
You need to press “SISTEMA DE GESTION MIGRATORIA”
http://sistemas.migracion.gob.bo/sigemig/#/seguridad/login
Which will lead you to your page.
Put your password and user name, which are both your passport number.
On the left press the tab “Declaracion”
Fill the details on where you are staying and dates. Press “Registrar”.
Then you need to see that the information was registered in the tab “Historial de Declaracion” and to press confirm.
You need to see the button turns green.
You can put later on different information that contradicts what you originally wrote.
It is normal and can be explained as a change of plan. (according to immigration police)
If you are asked why are you not staying at the information you put online,
tell them that your plan changed.
=== How long can I stay in Bolivia? ===
Upon entering the country, most nationalities (like EU passports) get 30 days. You can try to ask for more, but you won't get more than thirty days. The Law in Bolivia is messy, and many different immigration offices will act differently according to what they believe is the law. People who are citizen of countries in the Mercosur are officially allowed to stay 90 days.It doesn’t necessarily mean they will get 90 days visa because as said earlier there is a big confusion in the immigracion offices. Other nationalities are divided to 3 different groups.You should check before arrival in which group your country is. National of countries in group 3 cannot obtain a visa on arrival and are required to obtain further authorization from a Bolivian migration officers are almost guaranteed Angryembassy or consulate.In some cases visa on arrival is possible for a higher price. National of countries in Group 2 must obtain a visa prior to arrival, obtained at any Bolivian embassy or consulate free of charge, so make or on arrival for a careful fee. Group 1 gets 30 days without a fee. If you whish to extent your stay you need to visit towards the end of the 30 days another immigration office to apply for 30 days more. Each day that you arrive after your 30 days will cost/benefit analysis on whether it's worth you 28 Bolivianos per day fine (true to August 2022)Insist in the risk not entering office to get a another 30 days stamp, if you don’t they might charge you for over staying.Immigration offices are set around the country at allin big cities.Most nationalities can apply for 30 more days twice, 90 days total. Important to know that many of the people working in the immigration are corrupt and will try to charge you money for something you don’t really owe them.Locals advice to say I only have 20 -50 Bolivianos on me, many times the will just accept it and you can continue like nothing. They give you a green paper to fill in, of which you get the bottom half and you have to carry this with you until you show up at an exit border. Don't. Lose. It. --- [[User:MOAH|MOAH]]* Important change.True to August 2022 there is no green paper. Didn’t got one myself and asked many travelersand none of them ever got it. Also left the country without anybody asking for it.
=== What to do with your coca leafs? ===
