Peru — Tourist Stay: 183 Days per 365 from First Entry
Summary
- Limit
- 183 days
- Window
- 365 days from your first entry
- Accumulation
- Consecutive or added across entries
- Extendable
- No — "no son prorrogables"
- Per-entry grant
- Officer's discretion, often 90 days
- Overstay
- 0.1% of a UIT per day of excess
- Basis
- DL 1350 + Reglamento DS 007-2017-IN, art. 77.2
- Authority
- Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones
Peru allows a tourist 183 days — consecutive or accumulated across several entries — inside a 365-day period counted from the first entry. This is not a calendar year, and it is not a rolling window: the clock is anchored to your arrival date. The plazo is non-extendable, and the number the officer stamps in your passport is usually smaller than the legal cap. Set this counter’s window start to your first entry; when the 365 days lapse, start a new one at your next entry.
Who it applies to
This matters most if you are:
- A long-term traveller basing yourself in Cusco, Lima or Arequipa between trips around South America.
- Someone making repeated shorter visits whose days are quietly adding up across the year.
- A remote worker treating Peru as a seasonal base without a formal visa.
- A visitor who has been stamped for 90 days and assumed that was the whole allowance — or assumed a border run would reset it.
Citizens of Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador have an additional route under the Andean migration statute and should read the extension note below rather than treating this as their only option.
The rule — and why it exists
Article 77.2 of the Reglamento to Legislative Decree 1350, in the consolidated text published by Migraciones itself, sets the tourist mechanic:
“El plazo de otorgamiento y de permanencia es de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días consecutivos o de periodos de días que sumados den un resultado de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días dentro de un año, contado desde su primer ingreso al territorio peruano. Estos plazos no son prorrogables.”
The annex to DL 1350 itself puts the same rule in days: “El plazo de permanencia es de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días, acumulables durante un período de trescientos sesenta y cinco (365) días. No es prorrogable.” — 183 days, accumulable across a 365-day period, non-extendable.
Three features fall out of that wording:
- The window is entry-anchored. “Contado desde su primer ingreso” — counted from your first entry. Two travellers arriving in different months have different windows.
- Days accumulate. Separate visits add together inside the window. Exiting does not reset anything.
- There is no extension. The plazo is expressly non-extendable, so the only lawful way past 183 days is a different migration category.
Why it exists: the entry-anchored year is a compromise between per-entry stamping (easy to abuse with border runs) and a calendar year (arbitrary, and generous to anyone arriving in July). Anchoring to first entry gives every visitor the same allowance measured from the same event in their own trip.
Counting the days
- 1Set the window start to your first entry into Peru. Everything is measured from that date, for 365 days.
- 2Add up every day of presence inside that window, across all entries — consecutive or not.
- 3Stay at or under 183. The cap is the allowance itself, so the breach falls on day 184.
- 4The number stamped at the border is usually lower than 183. Your lawful stay for that entry is the stamped period; the 183 is the ceiling across the whole window.
- 5When the 365 days lapse, the old window is finished. Start a fresh counter from your next entry into Peru.
Bounded tracks the legal cap, not the days written in your passport. Those two can diverge — an officer who stamps 90 days has given you 90, regardless of how much of the 183 is unused. Check the stamp every time, and treat this counter as the ceiling you cannot exceed rather than the permission you hold.
Examples
Example 1 — one long stay
Clara enters on 1 March and stays 150 days. Her window runs to the following 1 March, and she has 33 days left inside it. A trip back in December would have to fit in those 33 days, whatever the officer stamps on arrival.
Example 2 — the border run that does not work
Ben enters in January, spends 90 days, crosses to Bolivia for a week, and comes back expecting a fresh 90. His days accumulate: he has 93 left in the window, not 183. The stamp may say 90 days, but the cap is what binds.
Example 3 — the new window
Alicia first entered on 10 June and used 183 days by the following March. Her window closes on 10 June the next year. She re-enters on 20 July: that entry opens a new 365-day period counted from 20 July, and she starts a new counter.
Exceptions & edge cases
- Andean Community citizens. Citizens of Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador can extend online under the Estatuto Migratorio Andino, up to a maximum of 180 calendar days in a year. That is a different regime from the tourist plazo, with its own ceiling.
- Officer discretion at the border. The stamped period is what authorises your stay for that entry. Fewer days than expected is common and is not appealable at the booth.
- Overstay fines. 0.1% of one UIT per day of excess, settled before departure. gob.pe published the 2024 UIT at S/ 5,150. Small per day, but it accrues and it is on record.
- Tax residency is a separate test. 183 days of presence within a twelve-month period can make you a Peruvian tax resident under the Income Tax Law — a different rule, a different window, and not something this counter computes.
- Other migration categories. Business, worker, student, rentista and family categories each have their own plazos. If you need more than 183 days, the route is a category change, not an extension.
- The window reset is manual. The rule that a new period opens at your next entry after the old one lapses is consistent official practice rather than a sentence of quoted statute — which is why Bounded asks you to start a new counter rather than rolling it over silently.
Common misconceptions
- "It is 183 days per calendar year." No — a 365-day period counted from your first entry.
- "It is 183 days per entry." No — days accumulate across entries inside the window.
- "I will get 183 days at the airport." Usually not. 90 days is a common stamp, and the stamp governs that entry.
- "I can extend at the Migraciones office." The tourist plazo is expressly non-extendable. Only Andean Community citizens have an online extension route, under a different statute.
- "A short hop to Bolivia resets the clock." It does not. Only the lapse of the 365-day window opens a new period.
Related: Argentina’s tourist stay works on a per-entry basis with one extension — a useful contrast if you are moving between the two.
Frequently asked questions
No. Article 77.2 of the Reglamento to DL 1350 gives "ciento ochenta y tres (183) días consecutivos o de periodos de días que sumados den un resultado de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días dentro de un año, contado desde su primer ingreso al territorio peruano" — 183 days, consecutive or accumulated, within a year counted from your first entry into Peru. It is anchored to your own arrival date, not to 1 January and not to a rolling window.
No. 183 days is the legal ceiling, not the standard grant. Immigration officers routinely stamp less — 90 days is common — and what you may lawfully stay is the lower of the stamped period and the 183-day cap. Bounded tracks the legal cap; check your stamp for the operative date.
The tourist plazo is expressly non-extendable: "Estos plazos no son prorrogables." The one exception is for Andean Community citizens — Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador — who may extend online under the Andean migration statute, up to a maximum of 180 calendar days in a year.
A fine of 0.1% of one UIT (Unidad Impositiva Tributaria) for each day of excess presence, payable before you leave. gob.pe published the UIT for 2024 at S/ 5,150, which puts the daily fine in the region of five soles per day. It is not ruinous, but it is a record, and it is settled at departure.
Not within the same 365-day period. Days accumulate across entries — that is what "periodos de días que sumados" means. A new period opens only once the previous one has lapsed, on your next entry after that.
That is a separate test. Peruvian tax residency for foreigners turns on 183 days of presence within any twelve-month period under the Income Tax Law, with its own effective date for when residency attaches. Meeting the immigration cap and meeting the tax test are different questions with different windows — this counter answers only the first.
At your next entry after the old period ends. Because the window is anchored to an entry rather than to a calendar, Bounded cannot roll it over for you: when your 365 days lapse, start a fresh counter from your next arrival date.
This rule is tracked automaticallyin
Bounded
- Automatically tracks your days for this rule
- Alerts you before you cross the limit
- Counts arrival and departure days correctly
- Runs alongside your other visa, tax, and residency rules
Sources
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