Visa Information
Costa Rica has opened its borders to tourists from most nations. Thus, most countries can enter Costa Rica and stay up to 30 or 90 days (depending on your passport) without a visa. Still, there are visa requirements for citizens of some countries under certain conditions.
If you need a consular visa, some of its requirements (such as a Police record) can take a long time to acquire. Please make sure that you understand the procedure beforehand, to avoid missing the conference due to visa restrictions.
Please visit the following sites to see if you need to apply for a visa and what other requirements you need to fulfill.
- General information about visa: https://www.visitcostarica.com/en/costa-rica/planning-your-trip/entry-requirements
- Visa requirements by country: http://www.costarica-embassy.org/index.php?q=node/51
- Exceptions for students and permanent residents of USA, EU, and other countries: http://www.costarica-embassy.org/index.php?q=node/24
- Requirements for US citizens: http://www.costarica-embassy.org/index.php?q=node/72
- Information in Spanish: https://www.migracion.go.cr/Paginas/Visas.aspx
Letters of Support
For attendees requiring a letter of invitation for visa purposes, ACM is able to provide visa support letters to attendees as well as authors with accepted papers, posters, or members of the conference committee.
If you are a recipient of ACM, SIG, or Conference funded travel grant, please include this information in your request.
If you are an accepted author (i.e., your submission was accepted) that needs a visa support letter in advance of registration you should fill out the form at https://supportletters.acm.org. Please allow up to 10 business days to receive a letter. All requests are handled in the order they are received. Please note that this is only possible for accepted authors.
The information below should be included with the request:
- Your name as it appears on your passport
- Your current postal mailing address
- The name of the conference you are registering for. Only accepted authors may request a visa support letter prior to registering for the conference.
- Your registration confirmation number
- If you have any papers accepted for the conference, please provide the title and indicate whether you are the “sole author” or a “co-author”
- Authors may indicate their paper title. If no paper, speakers can provide the title of their presentation
All other visa support letters can be requested through registration.