Suriname
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Travel authorisation, 90 days
Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation (Entry Fee).
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- From January 15, 2024, all travelers required to pay the Entry Fee must pay it prior to the trip via the VFS Global Suriname online application, and without the voucher they will not be admitted to Surinamese territory.
Your stay
Add your arrival date to work out the stay that fits this rule.
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Official wording
Per 01 juli 2022 heeft de Regering van de Republiek Suriname de eenzijdige visumafschaffing voor bepaalde landen ingesteld. Dat wil zeggen dat Staatsburgers van die landen visumvrij mogen afreizen naar Suriname voor toeristische doeleinden en of familiebezoek tot een maximal verblijf van 90 dagen. … De landen waarvoor deze eenzijdige visumafschaffing per 1 mei 2023 niet van toepassing is, zijn: de Dominicaanse Republiek, India, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Angola, Ghana, Kameroen, Kenia, Nigeria, Zambia, Zuid-Afrika, Eritrea, Somalië, Egypte, Tunesië, Cuba en Syrië. … Met deze maatregel moeten alle Staatsburgers de Entry Fee betalen om toegelaten te worden tot het Surinaams grondgebied. … Per 01 januari 2023 kan de betaling van de “Entry Fee” uitsluitend op de navolgende wijze geschieden: online via het webadres van VFS Global https://suriname.vfsevisa.com/suriname/online/login
Aevamo’s reading
The Vreemdelingenbesluit 1995 (Aliens Decree, S.B. 1995 no. 85), implementing the Vreemdelingenwet 1991, creates the entry obligation: Article 12 requires every alien to hold a passport carrying a visa unless the Minister designates an exemption. The current Entry-Fee regime and the 21-country visa/tourist-card list are later modifications of that obligation made by decree (S.B. 2022 no. 68, S.B. 2023 no. 76, S.B. 2024 no. 13) and ministry measures, so the decree is the instrument that creates the obligation the later instruments modify.
The ministry's travel page makes nationals of countries not on the 21-country exclusion list visa-free for tourism or family visits up to 90 days, then states that all nationals must pay the Entry Fee to be admitted and that payment is made exclusively online through VFS Global; each issuer in this row is absent from the 21-country list and from the fee-exemption groups, so each must arrange the Entry Fee voucher online before travel.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
bekendmaking-2025-04-26 (gov.sr travel page) served 26 August 2026; S.B. 2023 no. 76 dated Paramaribo 9 May 2023, issued 16 May 2023, in force 1 May 2023; S.B. 2024 no. 13 dated Paramaribo 22 January 2024, issued 22 February 2024; Bekendmaking 2023 effective 1 May 2023; entry-fee advance-payment announcement dated 27 December 2023, effective 15 January 2024; VFS portal fetched 26 August 2026; China MFA page current 2025.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.