Chile entry requirements, by passport

How much money you need to show

Chile sets no figure. The National Migration Service asks you to show sufficient means for your stay and leaves the check to the border officer, so it is worth carrying proof.

Source: Chile's National Migration Service, Temporary Stay Permit. Checked on 1 November 2026.

Vaccinations

• No mandatory vaccines for entry. The international vaccination certificate is asked of nobody: not the yellow fever one, and not even of travellers arriving from a country with risk of transmission. That is what the country has declared in the International Health Regulations list.

Customs limits

Cash

Declare to Chile's National Customs Service if entering or leaving the country with USD 10,000 or more in cash, negotiable instruments, or other means of payment (including Chilean pesos), or the equivalent in another currency.

Alcohol

2,500 cubic centimetres (2.5 litres) of alcoholic beverages per adult traveller, within the duty-free traveller's baggage allowance.

Tobacco

400 cigarettes, or 50 cigars, or 500 grams of pipe tobacco per adult traveller, duty-free.

Overstay penalties

Fine in UTM (a monthly tax unit whose value changes every month) for staying on after the Permanencia Transitoria has expired. People who declare the infraction on SERMIG's portal get a 50% reduction (Art. 121 of Law 21.325), and with that reduction already applied SERMIG's table ranges, for a first offence, from 0.25 UTM (1 to 90 days over) to 4 UTM (over 360 days); for repeat offenders, from 1 UTM to 5 UTM. Without self-declaration the law's general range applies: from 1/2 to 10 UTM up to 180 days over, and from 1 to 10 UTM beyond 180 days. Up to 180 days over it is a less serious infraction (Art. 107); beyond that it becomes serious (Art. 119). Minors are exempt from fines.

Grounds for refusal

• Having been convicted, prosecuted, formally charged, indicted or judicially pursued abroad for belonging to or financing terrorist movements or groups, or being listed with INTERPOL.
• Having carried out acts that Chilean law classifies as offences against external security, national sovereignty or internal security.
• Suffering from one of the diseases that the health authority determines to be a ground for preventing entry under the Health Code: the list must be set by a previously published exempt resolution.
• Attempting to enter or leave the country through unauthorised crossings while evading migration control, or doing so with falsified, altered or fraudulently obtained documents.

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