Tourist Card Essential Information

To enter Cuba, most people of the world require a GREEN tourist visa card. A PINK Cuba tourist Card is only necessary for US CITIZENS arriving in Cuba, as tourists, regardless of their place of origin or transit, and for foreign tourists from other countries arriving from the USA, including Porto Rico.

You can buy both GREEN & PINK visas from our home page.

The example shown is just half of the Tourist Card. Each half is the same. Both halves will be printed out with your details on your behalf by our staff at cubavisas.com. So when you fill out our online form the details must be as they appear on your passport.
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT VISITOR DETAILS ON THE ONLINE FORM ARE FILLED IN CORRECTLY

On entry to Cuba the left half will be retained by immigration, the right half is yours. You shall return your half to Cuban Immigration when you leave.
SO DO NOT LOSE THIS TOURIST VISA CARD PART DURING YOUR STAY IN CUBA
If you do lose your tourist card it will need to get replaced, resulting in extra costs, delays and the possibility of missing your flight home. And if you do lose it, then please find and visit an immigration office ASAP. See the link below

Your stay using your Tourist Visa Card MAY BE EXTENDED WHEN IN CUBA, BY ANOTHER 90 DAYS with the immigration authorities. To extend your Tourist Card/Visa, you need to pay the current fee (1875 CUP in 2024) in stamps, & just in case it is still needed, take a receipt from your accommodation (hotels or private accommodation known as casas particulares).

The CUP stamps you should buy in advance by visiting a branch of Banco Metropolitano, or if you or a friend has an account there, the stamps can be bought more conviently, using their Android app called Transfermovil.

A list of the IMMIGRATION OFFICES where you can extend your visas can be found on our Immigration Office web page.

• To enter Cuba, almost all vistors must present 1. a tourist card, 2. a current passport, and have completed 3. a customs & immigration form online, from here dviajeros.mitrans.gob.cu/inicio. The latter is best completed 24-72 hours before your flight departure to Cuba. If possible print a paper backup of the emailed QR code.
• A Cuba Tourist Card/Visa is supposedly only valid for tourism, leisure and recreational purposes. A proper business visa is possibly necessary if you will be signing business contracts with government enterprises.
• A Cuba Tourist Visa Card has no date of issue on it. Therefore (unless there is a change in immigration procedues) it can be purchased well in advance, and used whenever required.
• Once you have entered Cuba, your Tourist Card is valid for 90 days and is non-transferable and non-refundable. As explained above, it is extendable in Cuba for a further 90 days.
• A Cuba Tourist Card/Visa must be stamped by Cubaism / Globe Goers on both sections at the back of the visa.
• The information on a Cuba Tourist Card/Visa must coincide with that in the passport.
• Minors must have their own Tourist Card even if they are travelling under their parents´ passport(s).
• Passports must be valid for at at least 6 months after the date you arrive & 3 months after your planned departure from Cuba