Cuban passport, visas and tourist cards. Special and work visas.

As traveler information our web site, thecubanhouses.com, provides information on the formalities of passport and visa for travel to Cuba. The requirements for the Special Visas, Visas for Work Visas for Journalists, business, study, or health. In addition, we put information of interest on their respective prices.

The citizens of any country can travel to our Island without any impediment, including visitors americans. Are excluded from this group of people wanted by the international justice or related to illegal activities: terrorism, drug trafficking or other crimes.

Processing of Passport

All travelers need a valid passport with a validity of at least 6 months, counting from the date of arrival in our country. We recommend the visitor to confirm this information on the consulate closest to you, as the regulations in the matter of the formalities of passport and visa change with some regularity. The people of cuban origin having the nationality of other countries, who live outside of Cuba after 1970, they must travel with a cuban passport

For travel to Cuba you only need:

• valid Passport, valid at least 6 months counting from the date of entry into the country
• Air ticket (round trip)
• tourist Card or visa
• Results of RT-PCR for SARS-Cov-2

How can you acquire the visa or tourist card to travel to Cuba?

The visa or tourist card is issued to foreigners who visit the country as tourists, travel for pleasure or recreation. This may be sold by travel agencies or travel agencies, accredited by the Consulate of Cuba. Also can be purchased in cuban embassies and consulates in their country of origin. This covers a maximum of 30 days stay in the cuban territory and allowed to be carried over to the immigration authorities in our country up to a maximum of 30 days.

The management must be done by you personally at the offices of Migration in Havana or in the city in which it is located. By extension, you must pay approximately 625.00 CUP (Cuban Pesos).

The price of the visa or tourist card is about 22.00 Euros or USD 25.00 and the Business Visa approximately 55.00 Euros, or $ 55, depending on the country where you acquire it. Business travelers (exceptos journalists, participants of conferences or students) need a visa regardless. To obtain this special kind of visa it is necessary to make a prior request in the commercial office of the Embassy of Cuba; once your application is approved, it will be the visa at the consulate.

Special Visas

The Visa for Journalists is granted if you are a professional of the media, whether television, radio, or any publication, flat and travels to our country in order to make journalism work, take pictures, make films, etc .. In that case, you must purchase a visa-type D-6 at the Consulate or Embassy of Cuba in its country of origin and be duly accredited in the International Press Center of Havana. If you are not going to do any professional work, you can use a card of tourism.

Visas for business, work, study or health

If you are travelling for work purposes, business, health or education, and your stay in our country is more than two months, it is advisable to obtain a Special Visa at the Cuban Consulate in their country of origin. In some cases, you can travel initially with a tourist card and, once in Cuba, the institution with which you have to be involved, we can guide and help you to get a visa for a stay longer.