Peru Visa Cost Calculator

Most leisure travellers need only Peru's single-entry tourist authorisation — the fee-exempt baseline everything else is measured against. Travellers who expect to cross a border and return — regional side trips, contiguous-country loops — take the multi-entry option at 1.5× base, which for Peru still means no consular fee. Business entry is documented differently rather than priced differently: expect to attach an invitation letter from your Peru host company, with no consular fee due.

If Peru is merely between you and somewhere else, the transit endorsement prices the shortest lawful stay on the books — at no consular charge. Check the official Peru portal first: where entry is fee-exempt, only third-party intermediaries charge — and they are optional for most nationalities.

Paperwork comes before payment: passport with 6+ months' validity, a recent photo, Peru accommodation confirmations, and bank statements. Where you submit depends on the route: eVisa/ETA applicants for Peru upload documents to the official portal, while visa-free travellers simply carry passport and accommodation proof to immigration. Payment timing is one step you can skip — Peru's fee-exempt entry means the only receipts belong to photos and, where one exists, transport to an application centre.

Some Peru missions add a biometric appointment; if yours does, book it the day you file, because appointment queues usually outlast processing queues. File 4–6 weeks out for Peru; express handling rescues late plans at +50%, which the calculator above prices for your group size.

Start with the passport: Peru wants six months of validity left and two blank pages, and will reject against either. Peru's photo rule is the standard white-background print; bring a spare, because the application keeps the one you hand over. Three months of statements demonstrating $50–100 per day is the funds benchmark for Peru; scrub nothing, redact nothing.

Hotel bookings and the return ticket close the loop; Peru cross-checks the dates across all of them. Whatever the category, one extra document defines it for Peru: invitation letter (business) or onward ticket (transit).

Count on one to three weeks in the standard queue; Peru publishes business-day estimates that exclude weekends and local holidays. Express handling compresses the wait to 1–3 business days for Peru — and because entry is fee-exempt, the upgrade buys speed only, never a surcharge.

Incomplete files, not bad histories, cause the bulk of Peru rejections — one missing night of lodging is enough. Reapplication after a Peru refusal is routine once the stated reason is addressed; decision letters name the defect explicitly. eVisa decisions for Peru often arrive inside 72 hours, making it the de facto express lane at standard price where your nationality qualifies.