Paraguay — a landlocked Mercosur founder between Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, and one of South America's cheapest long-stay bases — runs one of the region's more generous visa policies. It has also been actively expanding its visa-free list: two Southeast Asian nationalities gained visa-free access at the very end of 2025. Here is the verified position for 2026.
The EU bloc, the Americas and more: 90 days
Every EU member state, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, enters Paraguay visa-free for up to 90 days. The same allowance covers the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, South Africa and Taiwan, plus Paraguay's South American neighbours — Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay, all of whom may also enter on a national ID card as fellow Mercosur full or associate members, with the right to live and work. This was also the single biggest gap in our own data: 76 of our 122 tracked nationalities — including nearly the entire EU bloc — had no explicit rule for Paraguay and were falling back to a wrong "visa required".
New for late 2025: Malaysia and the Philippines join the 30-day tier
Paraguay extended visa-free entry to Malaysian and Philippine passport holders effective 30 December 2025, joining Singapore and South Korea in a 30-day visa-exempt tier. Dominican Republic passport holders get a slightly longer 60-day exemption. This is a genuinely new door for Southeast Asian travellers who previously needed a Paraguayan consular visa to visit Asunción or the Itaipú dam.
Visa on arrival: Indonesia, Oman, Qatar, Vietnam and Thailand
Rather than a full exemption, Paraguay grants a 30-day visa on arrival to Indonesian, Omani, Qatari and Vietnamese citizens, and a 15-day visa on arrival to Thai citizens — no advance application needed, just the fee paid at the border.
Ghana: not actually visa-on-arrival
A "visa on arrival" claim for Ghanaian passport holders was sitting in our own data with no sourced basis — and we could not find any Paraguay-Ghana visa waiver or on-arrival agreement anywhere, official or otherwise. Every source we checked, including consular guidance in both directions, confirms an advance visa is required. We have corrected this on our Paraguay page; if you are Ghanaian and planning to visit Paraguay, apply for a visa before you travel.
Why we re-checked
On a visa database, a false "visa-free" or "visa on arrival" is the worst error — it can send someone to a border with no valid entry document. We had exactly that for Ghana, plus four nationalities (Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam) stored with the wrong stay length, plus 76 nationalities silently defaulted to a wrong "visa required". We have now verified and dated the rule for all 122 nationalities in our database against Paraguay's current visa policy. See the full per-passport breakdown on the Paraguay page, compare open routes in our longest visa-free stays, and read how we verify every figure in our Editorial & Data Standards.