If you are a British or a Swiss citizen, or you are a national of a European Union country, you will need a visa to travel to Cuba. This is also the case for travellers from most other countries.

Most tourists can easily apply online for the tourist visa for Cuba in only a few minutes. Go through the visa requirements first. You can apply for your visa using the application form in English on this website. Applications for the Cuba visa are processed on average within 3 days. The tourist visa allows you to stay in Cuba for up to 90 days.

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Applying for the Cuba tourist visa costs £44.95 per person. This is the final price. There are no additional costs, unless you choose for an urgent application, or you compensate your CO₂ emisions, but these options are voluntary.

If you are you travelling to Cuba for a holiday, you can easily apply for your visa online. Cuba offers an e-visa since 2024. Before that, Cuba only offered a physical visa, the so-called tourist card, which was sent by post. If you submit your application through e-Visa.co.uk, you will receive an e-visa. Please note that if you will arrive in the country on a cruise, you can't apply for your visa on this website .
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After reception of your electronic visa, you will need to activate it via the Cuban Government's immigration form D’Viajeros. You can do it by cliking on “Activate visa”, on your personal status page. This button will be available 3 days on average after the payment of the fee. You can apply for your visa as much in advance as you wish. However, the immigration form can only be filled in during the 7 days prior to your arrival in Cuba. Once you have cliked on “Activate visa”, and you have filled in all the immigration form, your visa will be linked to your passport. You will then be able to travel to Cuba with that passport.

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Will you be arriving in Cuba by boat or on a cruise? Then you cannot apply for your Cuba visa online. If this is your case, you should contact the Cuban embassy or consulate. You can usually apply for the necessary visa to arrive on a cruise personally or by post.

If you are travelling to Cuba for a family visit or other travel purpose, and you want to stay with your family in Cuba, you will need to apply for a specific visa at the Cuban embassy or consulate. The normal tourist visa is not suitable for a family visit. Similarly, if you are travelling to Cuba for business or for another non-tourist travel purpose, you must apply for your visa at the embassy or the consulate.

The visa for Cuba that you can apply for on this website is suitable for most holidaymakers who wish to stay in the country for up to 90 days. However, there are some requirements regarding passport, nationality, purpose of travel and travel plans.

Passport requirements: in order to apply for the Cuba tourist visa online, you must hold a regular passport with a residual validity of at least 6 months at the moment you leave Cuba. Otherwise, you may be refused entry in the country.

Nationality: the online Cuba visa application is available for travellers of most nationalities. If you are a national of a European Union country, such as Ireland, or you have British or Swiss nationality, you can apply for the visa on this website. Travellers from a number of European countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and Serbia, as well as travellers from certain non-European countries, including China, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, may travel to Cuba without a visa. If you have any questions about this, please contact the Cuban embassy in your home country.

Travel purpose: the Cuba visa offered on this website is intended for tourist travel only. You may not work, study or do business in Cuba. You are also not officially allowed to stay with family or friends in Cuba. In that case, you will need a specific family visa.

Travel itinerary: the tourist visa for Cuba is valid for a stay of up to 90 days. You must arrive by plane. If you wish to arrive by ship or on a cruise, you must apply for the visa at the embassy of Cuba. In addition, you may only stay overnight in official state-run hotels or registered casas particulares.

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The e-visa allows you to stay in Cuba for a maximum of 90 days. Please note that if your trip will take place more than 90 days in the future, your application will initially be put on hold. It will automatically be processed exactly 90 days before your expected arrival date. This way, the validity of your visa will not expire before you arrive in Cuba. If you will be travelling to Cuba in less than 90 days, your application will be processed immediately, and you will be able to use the visa immediately after granting. You may also arrive in Cuba up to 30 days later than planned. If you arrive in Cuba within the visa validity period, you may stay in the country for 90 days.

You can extend the validity period of your Cuba visa. This allows you to spend up to 180 days in Cuba. e-Visa.co.uk cannot support you with the extension. For more information, please see the Cuba visa validity page.

The average delivery time of the visa for Cuba is 3 days. Please note that this is an average delivery time, which cannot be guaranteed. Sometimes, there can be delays due to technical problems, for instance. In most cases, however, the average delivery time is met.

If you are leaving at short notice, you can submit an urgent request.e-Visa.co.uk processes urgent applications with high priority. However, urgent applications can also suffer delays. For this reason, we cannot guarantee a maximum processing time.

You will receive your visa by e-mail. You will need to activate your visa via the D’Viajeros inmigration form. You can do this in the 7 days prior to your arrival in Cuba. You will receive more information about this after your application has been processed.

You can easily apply for a visa for Cuba online by filling in an online application form and paying the visa costs online. Applying for your Cuba visa will only take you a few minutes.

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The visa for Cuba that you can apply for online is only suitable for holiday travel. If you are travelling to Cuba for a family visit or another, non-touristic travel purpose, you should apply for your visa at the Cuban embassy. In addition, please also bear in mind the remaining requirements of the online application process.

You will need to fill in some personal data on the Cuban visa application form. You can add several travellers to your application and easily apply for a Cuba visa for several people at the same time. After filling in the application form, you will be taken to a page where you can double-check the data you have entered. The most important data will be displayed.

You can easily pay the cost of the Cuba visa online using credit card, Trustly, Google Pay or Apple Pay. The cost is £44.95 per visa. No additional fees will be charged unless you opt for an express delivery or the CO₂ offsetting.

Once you have paid for the costs, your application will be processed. You don't need to provide any documents. Within an average of 3 days, you will receive your visa. You can activate your visa via the D'Viajeros immigration form in the 7 days prior to your arrival in Cuba. Only when this is done, your e-visa will be activated, and you will be able to travel to Cuba. You will receive more information about this once you have received your visa code.

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You are advised to apply for your Cuba visa as early as possible. You can submit your application even if you haven't booked your trip yet. However, you need to enter an expected arrival date in the application form. You may arrive another day, but the date entered will affect the validity period of your visa, since the visa allows you to arrive in Cuba only during the 30 days following the filled-in arrival date.

The Cuba visa can be used immediately after being granted. When processing your visa application, e-Visa.co.uk takes into account your expected date of arrival. If you submit your application more than 90 days prior to your arrival date, your application will be put on hold, so that your visa will be valid during your whole stay. This means you can submit your application as long in advance as you want. If you are travelling to Cuba at short notice, your application will be processed as soon as possible.

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Yes, you can apply for a Cuba visa on behalf of someone else. However, you will need that person's consent. If it is a minor, you will need their parents or guardians' consent. After completing the form, you should read out the filled-in details to the person concerned, so they can confirm that everything has been filled in completely and truthfully.

You can also easily apply for a visa for several people at the same time. This can be done by clicking the ‘Add a traveller’ button in the application form.

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The application form for the Cuba visa is relatively short and straightforward. It consists of three parts: the contact details, the travel details and the travellers' details. The contact details are the address, phone number and email address of the main applicant. Next, an expected arrival date in Cuba must be filled in. You should also indicate if you will arrive in Cuba by plane or on a cruise.

Next, you have to fill in some details about each traveller for whom you want to apply for a visa. You will need to fill in their name and nationality, among other information. You do not need to provide any documents.

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The total price of the Cuba visa is £44.95 per person, including VAT. This amount includes 20 EUR of consular fees. The Cuban embassy charges consular fees for assessing applications and issuing visas. The remaining £27.87 are service costs charged by e-Visa.co.uk to process your application and to provide customer service in English.

You can pay the costs using credit card (Mastercard, Visa, AMEX), Trustly, Google Pay or Apple Pay. There are no additional transaction fees.

If you are unsure about what you should answer to a question in the application form, you can click on the box next to it. An explanation will then appear on the right. If you are filling in the application form on a mobile phone or tablet, you can click on the question mark icon to receive additional explanations. If that still doesn't answer your question, you can contact the customer service.

After you have made the payment, you will receive a confirmation e-mail for your application. It can sometimes take several hours before you receive this email. If after one day you still haven't received an email from e-Visa.co.uk, check your spam box or junk mail folder. If you can't find an email from e-Visa.co.uk there either, you can also check the status of your application on the contact page. For this, you will need your order number, that you can find, among other things, on the bank statement of your payment. The number starts with the letter ‘B’.

If you still cannot find your application, please contact the customer service.

The average delivery time of the Cuba visa is 3 days. Please check your personal status page and email first to find out if your application has been submitted in full and if there is any news about its processing. If after 3 days you still haven't received your visa, consider that sometimes delivery may take slightly longer. Public holidays, increased workload or technical problems can cause delays. A longer delivery time doesn't mean that the application has more chances to be rejected.

If you are waiting longer than the average, and you will be travelling to Cuba at short notice, please contact e-Visa.co.uk. e-Visa.co.uk can check the current status of your application and advise you on possible steps you can take.

You will receive your visa by e-mail. Before travelling to Cuba, you will need to activate your visa via the Cuban government's D'Viajeros immigration form. This can only be done in the 7 days prior to your arrival in Cuba. After this, you will receive a pdf document with a QR code. You must take this document with you on your trip to Cuba.

You can change the details you have entered until the moment you make the payment. After that, your application will be processed almost immediately, unless you will be travelling to Cuba in more than 90 days. In that case, your application will be put on hold and processed 90 days before your expected date of arrival.

After e-Visa.co.uk has processed your application, you will not be able to change your details. This is usually not necessary. If you have entered the wrong contact details, please contact the customer service. If you entered an incorrect arrival date, please bear in mind the validity period, even though it is usually not necessary to have this changed. Please contact the customer service if you have any doubts.

You can cancel your application until you have made the payment. After reception of the payment, e-Visa.co.uk will process your application almost immediately. There is an exception if your application is still on hold, that is to say, if you will not travel to Cuba before 90 days. Your application will not be processed immediately, which gives you more time to cancel your application if you wish.

There is no reflection or withdrawal period. This is because most travellers want to receive their visa as soon as possible. Therefore, visa applications are processed as quickly as possible. This is also stated in the terms and conditions, which you agreed to when you submitted your application.

Visa applications for Cuba are rarely rejected. If this is your case, it is important that you try to find out the reason for this rejection. This is not always easy, since Cuban authorities do not provide information about this.

If the rejection is due to an error made in the application form, you can reapply for a new Cuba visa with the correct data. If your application was rejected for another reason, there is no point in submitting a new application, as your new application will probably be rejected again. In that case, you are advised to contact the Cuban embassy, where you will be informed about how to obtain a visa.

You cannot extend the validity period of your Cuba visa. If the validity of your visa expires before you travel to Cuba, you will need to apply for a new one. You can submit a new application before the previous one expires.

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However, what you can do is extending the maximal length of stay in Cuba. You can do this at certain offices in Cuba. You can also ask your hotel or casa particular if they can help you to extend the duration of stay. More information can be found on the page about the validity period of the visa.

Once you have received your e-visa via email, you will have to fill in the D’Viajeros digital immigration form. You can only do this during the 7 days prior to your arrival in Cuba. This is a form provided by the Cuban government that you can open by clicking on the "Activate visa" button, displayed on your personal status page. Then, you will need to fill in some personal data and provide information about your travel plans, your health and the products you want to import.

After you complete the D’Viajeros immigration form, you will receive a confirmation email with a pdf file containing a QR code. You need to show this QR code upon arrival in Cuba. This way, the Cuban authorities will verify that you have a valid visa.

Early 2021, the United States added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. As a consequence, travelling to the United States from Cuba is now more complicated. Europeans must be aware that they are no longer eligible for an ESTA to the United States if they were in Cuba after 11 January 2021.

Bear in mind that if you have been to Cuba after 11 January 2021 or you are planning to travel to Cuba in the future, you will not be able to use the ESTA for the United States after that. Therefore, if you want to travel to the USA in the future, you will need to apply for a visa. This requires an interview appointment at the US consulate.

The relationship between America and Cuba is constantly changing. For instance, various politicians have proposed to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. It is therefore possible that travellers currently going to Cuba will be allowed in the future to use the ESTA. Whether and when this will happen depends on the political situation in America.

All the information on this page also applies to minors, since they also need their own passport and visa.

If a minor travels to Cuba without both of their parents or guardians, they should bring a declaration, stating that they have the permission to travel from all parents or all persons with parental authority. Also, it is often recommended to bring copies of both parents or guardians' identity documents. More information can be found here.

A granted visa is a provisional authorisation to travel to Cuba. However, all arriving travellers are controlled both at Cuban airports and seaports. The immigration and border control authorities may select suspicious persons and carry out more thorough inspections. If the immigration service considers you a potential security risk or suspects, that you could violate the terms of your visa, you may be refused entry. However, in most cases, the arrival goes smoothly.

If you are travelling to Cuba for a holiday, and you apply for your visa online, you do not need to inform the Cuban authorities that you have a criminal record. Minor offences and time-barred offences usually do not affect your trip to Cuba. However, if Cuban authorities are aware of your criminal record and assess you as dangerous, there is a chance that you may be refused entry on arrival.

If you are travelling to Cuba from a country with infections of yellow fever, you must be vaccinated against yellow fever. In addition, vaccinations against DTP (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) and Hepatitis A are generally recommended. For individual advice, you are advised to contact your family doctor.

The information on this page has not been written by a doctor. You are therefore always advised to contact your family doctor for medical advice.

Since certain medicines can be difficult to obtain in Cuba, you are advised to bring enough medication with you to the country. To import some medicines, you need a medical declaration. On the NHS website, you can check if you need a declaration and how to obtain one.

Once you have filled in the application form, you will have the option to offset the CO₂ emissions of your trip. This is a voluntary contribution that will be fully invested in projects certified by VCS, one of the best-known and most reliable climate project certifiers. All projects associated with this certificate are thoroughly inspected to ensure that they have a positive climate impact. The projects, which have the aim of reducing carbon emissions and promoting social progress, are implemented worldwide: reforestation campaigns in Zimbabwe, development of renewable energy sources in Uganda or installation of energy-efficient cooktops in India.

The amount of the contribution for the carbon offset depends on your departure country. The contribution is calculated based on the CO₂ emissions of your return flight to Cuba in economy class. The following article provides more information on CO₂ emissions compensation via e-Visa.co.uk.

A lot of personal and sensitive personal data, including passport numbers or identity photos are processed on this website. You are guaranteed that they will be handled with care.

e-Visa.co.uk guarantees that your data are protected in accordance with the applicable privacy regulations (AVG / GDPR). For this purpose, both technical and organizational safety measures have been taken. Your data will only be processed via secure connections, and they will be stored in encrypted form. As soon as storage is no longer necessary, they will be immediately deleted from our system. e-Visa.co.uk has developed and reviewed its privacy policy in collaboration with Taylor Wessing, an internationally renowned law firm.

Your personal data will only be processed in order to execute your order; applying for a visa to Cuba. Your data will not be sold or used for other commercial purposes. However, even if all precautions are followed, the processing of personal data always involves risks. In order to obtain a visa for Cuba, your personal data may need to be shared with a series of government agencies, which will assess whether you may pose a security risk and whether your application will be approved.e-Visa.co.uk has no leverage on these government agencies and cannot control what they do with your personal data. You can read more about this in the privacy policy.