Currently, 100 countries in the world have the benefit of being exempt from visas for short stays in Colombia. For the cases of long stays, the country approves more than 90% of the requests.
According to a study prepared by the Foreign Ministry’s Visa and Immigration Working Group, in the period between March 2022 and March 2023, 58,159 visas were approved for foreign citizens for different activities in Colombia.
Colombia, like all countries, sovereignly applies the decision on the approval or denial of visas, however the percentage of approval in the aforementioned period reached 92.4%.
Of the total number of visas granted, US citizens are the ones that have received the most approvals with a total of 8,400. 50% of the visas correspond to a visitor visa, 33% to a migrant visa, 11% to a resident visa and 4% to other cases.