International agreements — Andean temporary residence under the Andean Migration Statute
Route status
Active as of 2026-08-26[1][3][4]
Four live TUPA procedures: the application from abroad, the in-country change to Andean temporary residence, the change to Andean permanent residence, and an extension of tourist stay under the same Statute
Open to new applications under the rules recorded below.
| Open only to nationals of | BO, CO, EC as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento arts. 94-D, 94-E and 94-F enumerate the member states of the Andean Community as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru — Peru being the granting state, the route is open to the other three — and add "aquellos países que se encuentren bajo los alcances del Estatuto Migratorio Andino", an open limb the Peruvian instruments do not fill in. Venezuela and Chile, former members of the Andean Community, are not named and are not asserted here |
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Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Convenios Internacionales — Residencia Temporal Andina por Estatuto Migratorio Andino as of 2023-11-14[1][3][4] DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. p names the calidad "Convenios internacionales"; Reglamento arts. 94-D and 94-E give this limb its published name, repeated by the TUPA as "Solicitud de Calidad Migratoria Convenios Internacionales – Residencia Temporal Andina por Estatuto Migratorio Andino" |
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| Official name (English) | International agreements — Andean temporary residence under the Andean Migration Statute as of 2026-08-26[4] Translation. MIGRACIONES publishes no official English name |
| Legal basis | Decreto Legislativo 1350 art. 29.2 lit. p (as amended by Decreto Legislativo 1582); Reglamento aprobado por Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN arts. 94, 94-D (application from abroad), 94-E (change of status in-country) and 94-F (change to Andean permanent residence), incorporated by Decreto Supremo 004-2023-IN of 28 April 2023; Decisión 878 de la Comunidad Andina, Estatuto Migratorio Andino as of 2026-08-26[1][3][4] |
| Instrument type | residence card as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento arts. 94-D, 94-E and 94-F each state that the deliverable of the procedure is the carné de extranjería |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | Not applicable No supranational free-movement bloc of the kind this field records applies to Peru. This route is itself the treaty-based one |
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| Minimum age | Not applicable as of 2026-08-26[3][4] No minimum age condition appears in Reglamento arts. 94-D to 94-F or in the published requirements; the procedure contemplates minors through arts. 56-B and 56-C |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento art. 94-F lit. d and the parallel requirement lists: absence of police, judicial or criminal record, in Peru and in the country of origin or residence |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 2 years as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento arts. 94-D and 94-E: residence for two years |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | No as of 2026-08-26[3][4] This two-year residence cannot be extended. To stay on, you must apply for Andean permanent residence in the 90 days before it runs out. Reglamento arts. 94-D and 94-E are express: "Este procedimiento no está sujeto a renovación". The onward step is the change to Andean permanent residence under art. 94-F, filed within the 90 days before the temporary residence expires |
| Work rights | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-08-26[1][3][4] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento art. 94-F and the TUPA procedure "Cambio de Calidad Migratoria Convenios Internacionales – Residencia Permanente Andina por Estatuto Migratorio Andino": the holder of a current Andean temporary residence applies within the 90 days before it expires. As with the MERCOSUR twin this is the Statute's own permanent residence, not the permanente calidad of DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. o, and it does not run through Reglamento art. 65.4's list |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | No as of 2026-08-26[3][4] No employment, employer or means condition appears in the requirement list |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-26[3][4] No test of national availability appears in the requirement list |
| Employer sponsorship | No as of 2026-08-26[3][4] No sponsor is required; eligibility rests on nationality |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Not a job-search route; the work-family placement is a deliberate decision recorded in the work coverage note |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-26[3][4] Reglamento art. 94-D is filed from abroad before a Peruvian consular office; art. 94-E is the in-country change of calidad |
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| Statutory processing time | 30 days as of 2026-08-26[3][4] 30 días hábiles (working days) on the residence procedures, negative administrative silence; the tourist-stay extension under art. 94-G runs on 5 working days |
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Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 183 days · to keep the permit as of 2021-03-24[2][3] Reglamento art. 63 lit. a, second paragraph (as amended by DS 002-2021-IN): for calidades granted under international agreements administered by MIGRACIONES the 183 consecutive days are counted within the residence period granted |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-08-26[2][3][4] Reglamento arts. 94-C, 94-D and 94-E state that the route extends to members of the applicant's family even where they do not hold the nationality of a member state, and art. 94-A records that it applies to the holder and to family members (family reunion). This is materially more generous than the ordinary Peruvian pattern, where dependants must obtain the separate familiar de residente calidad |
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| Eligible relations | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-08-26[3][4] |
| Family members' work rights | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-08-26[3][4] |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 4 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 4 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2021-03-24 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-26 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Decreto Legislativo 1582, que modifica el Decreto Legislativo 1350, Decreto Legislativo de Migraciones (texto de los artículos modificados, incl. art. 29 – tipos de calidades migratorias – y art. 38 – unidad migratoria familiar)
Diario Oficial El Peruano / Poder Ejecutivo · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2023-11-14 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [2] Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN, que modifica el Reglamento del Decreto Legislativo 1350 (arts. 12, 31-34, 43, 47, 51, 56, 58, 63, 64, 65, 67, 75, 87, 88, 156, 190; incorpora arts. 86-A, 86-B, 92-A, 92-B) y el Reglamento de la Ley 26574, Ley de Nacionalidad
Diario Oficial El Peruano / Ministerio del Interior · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2021-03-24 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [3] MIGRACIONES: Ley y Reglamento — Decreto Legislativo 1130, Decreto Legislativo 1350 y el Reglamento aprobado por Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN, texto consolidado con notas de modificación al pie (primera edición, junio 2023; incorpora las modificaciones del Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN, del Decreto Supremo 003-2023-IN y del Decreto Supremo 004-2023-IN). Publicación oficial de la autoridad administradora; no lleva fecha de publicación en el diario oficial, por lo que el as_of de los valores que la citan es la fecha de acceso
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES) · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [4] Texto Único de Procedimientos Administrativos de la Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (TUPA 2023, modificado por Resolución de Superintendencia 150-2025-MIGRACIONES) – 286 pp., 53 procedimientos y los servicios prestados en exclusividad
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy