Peru launches 24 month review of digital nomad and tourist rules

What the working group will do

Peru's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a multisectoral working group to redraft the country's National Migration Policy, under Ministerial Resolution No. 333-2026-RE published in the Official Gazette on June 8. The group will run for 24 months from the date it's installed.

The Foreign Ministry chairs the body, with the Migration Policy Directorate serving as its technical secretariat. Representatives come from Interior, Labor, Health, Education, SUNAT, RENIEC and INEI, among other state bodies. The mandate covers shifts in migration patterns that the previous framework no longer addresses.

Who has a stake in the rewrite

The drafting process itself changes nothing at the border today. Tourists, residents and applicants in the pipeline continue under existing rules while the group meets.

The longer-term audience is broader: foreign residents, asylum seekers, expats and remote workers whose visa categories or document requirements could shift once the policy lands. Peru's digital nomad status, created in law by Legislative Decree 1582 in late 2023 for remote workers paid from abroad, sits inside the framework the group is now reviewing. Migraciones had published no application procedure or fee for it, so it could not yet be requested.

Tourists currently get up to 183 days in total within 365 days, with no extension beyond that, a baseline that predates this review.

Current rules and what to track

Travelers who need a consular tourist visa still file under the existing checklist:

• Completed application form and consular interview
• Valid passport and round-trip ticket
• Proof of lodging or invitation letter
• Passport photos and proof of funds
• Consular fee of 30 consular soles

Anyone planning a residency application, a digital nomad permit or an asylum claim over the next two years should monitor Foreign Ministry and migration-administration portals for draft text and public consultation windows. The working group's output will move through formal channels before any rule change reaches the border, so document requirements and fees in force today remain the operative ones until a successor policy is published.

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Correction, Sept. 27, 2026: An earlier version of this article described Peru's digital nomad permit as open with stays of up to one year and gave the tourist limit as 183 days per entry. When this article was published, the digital nomad status existed only in law with no application procedure, and the tourist limit was 183 days in total within 365 days.