Regulations

Migratory RegulationsThe visitor must have a valid passport or a travel document issued in his name and the corresponding visa or Tourist Card. The countries with which Cuba has free visa agreements are excepted. Tourist Cards can be requested from the Cuban consular offices. Also, in travel agencies and airlines. They are of two types: for individual tourists or for tourists traveling in groups. Businessmen, journalists in work and natural of Cuba who are not residents or who hold another nationality, must obtain a visa issued at a Cuban consulate.
Health RegulationsThere are only restrictive sanitary regulations for visitors from countries where yellow fever and cholera are endemic or have been designated as areas of infection by the World Health Organization. In such cases the International Certificate of Vaccination is required. The entrance of natural products of animal and vegetal origin is restricted. Animals may be imported upon presentation of the relevant certificate.