Suriname
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Travel authorisation, 30 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
Malaysia visa waiver for 30 days stay touristical purposesEntry Fee (Single + Multiple) / Business / Transit / Short Stay, 90 Days … Philippines visa waiver for 30 days stay - touristical purposesEntry Fee (Single + Multiple) / Business / Transit / Short Stay, 30 Days … Serbia Visa Exemption for holders of Diplomatic, Service, Official, and Ordinary passports for 30 days stay onlyEntry Fee (Single + Multiple) / Short Stay, 30 Days
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 VFS portal, Suriname's official application channel, records a visa waiver for 30-day tourism stays for Malaysia and the Philippines and a 30-day visa exemption for Serbia, each in the Entry Fee country list, so these issuers still pay the Entry Fee in advance and their tourism stay is capped at 30 days.
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.