Entering Cuba: e-Visa, insurance and forms

The Cuba e-Visa

In 2025 Cuba replaced the paper tourist card with an e-Visa, and most visitors now need one rather than a consular visa. It is filed online, against your booking, and is for tourism only. A few passports need nothing at all and a few need a consular visa instead: it depends on your nationality.

We file the e-Visa with your booking, complete your D’Viajeros arrival declaration as well, and send both to you before you fly, so there is nothing to collect at the airport. If your passport needs a consular visa instead, we tell you before you book rather than after.

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Travel medical insurance

Cuba requires visitors to hold medical insurance that is valid in Cuba, and the certificate can be asked for at the border. This is the requirement that catches people: many ordinary travel policies exclude Cuba, sometimes by name, in a line nobody reads until an official asks to see it.

Check that your policy covers Cuba explicitly, that it includes medical treatment, and that its dates cover the whole trip, including the day you fly home. If in doubt, we can arrange cover that is valid in Cuba with your booking.

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The D’Viajeros form

Before you fly, every traveller completes D’Viajeros, Cuba’s online arrivals form, which covers your personal details, your flight and a short health and customs declaration. Keep the confirmation it gives you on your phone and on paper, because it can be asked for at check-in or on arrival.

If we file your e-Visa, we complete this form for you as well. If not, use the official government site rather than a paid intermediary: the form itself costs nothing.

Passport and onward ticket

Your passport should have at least six months left on it when you travel. Airlines check this before you board, and a passport close to expiry is the most common reason a trip ends at the check-in desk.

You should also be able to show a return or onward ticket. If you are travelling on to Mexico or the Dominican Republic after Cuba, have that flight booked before you arrive.

The United States, before and after

Travellers from the United States travel to Cuba under specific rules set by the US government, and our booking asks the questions those rules need.

If you plan to visit the United States after Cuba, check your position first. Under the US rules in force at the time of writing, most travellers who have been to Cuba since January 2021 can no longer use the ESTA visa waiver and need to apply for a US visa instead.

On arrival

At the airport you pass immigration, where your passport and e-Visa are checked, then health and customs controls. Have your insurance certificate and D’Viajeros confirmation to hand. With a transfer booked in advance, a driver is waiting with your name once you are through.

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