Cuba has not too long ago introduced a number of modifications to its entry procedures for international vacationers. The deadline for registering on the D’Viajeros platform and utilizing the “Tarjeta del Turista” vacationer card has been prolonged.
Since January 2023, all air vacationers to Cuba should full an internet check-in (the D’Viajeros kind). This course of requires filling out an internet kind with private, migratory, well being, and customs information and the e-visa quantity. Beforehand, this way was solely accessible to vacationers 48 hours earlier than arrival in Cuba. Nonetheless, Cuba has prolonged this era to seven days to offer vacationers extra time to arrange and submit their data earlier than departure. Since October 1, vacationers can get hold of their Cuba entry QR code as much as per week earlier than their arrival on the island.
Final August, Cuba launched a brand new digital visa system (e-Visa) to interchange the vacationer card. To keep away from penalizing vacationers who already had a vacationer card in the course of the transition to the e-Visa and licensed companies that also had a inventory of “Tarjeta del Turista,” the Cuban authorities introduced that the beforehand issued paperwork might be used till December 31, 2024.
The Cuban authorities have confirmed to Motion-Visas that this deadline has been prolonged by six months, permitting vacationer card holders to make use of them till June 30, 2025. Cuban diplomatic missions and licensed companies now not subject the vacationer playing cards. Worldwide vacationers should now apply for an digital visa to journey to Cuba. The Cuban e-Visa is issued as a 10-character alphanumeric code and is non-nominative till the D’Viajeros kind is accomplished seven days earlier than departure.
