Kaieteur Falls, Guyana

Who needs a visa for Guyana?

Latin America and the Caribbean · Georgetown

Photo: Bill Cameron / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Of 198 nationalities, 62 enter Guyana with no paperwork at all. The rest: 136 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Guyana government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Guyana's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 62

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 136

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Guyana

Region
South America
Capital
Georgetown
Population
835,986 2025 · 163rd of 197
Size
214,969 km² 83rd largest of 199
Density
4 per km²
Language
English
Currency
Guyanese dollar GYD
Borders
Brazil Suriname Venezuela

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.