In case you live in the United States and diving among hammerhead sharks in the waters off Costa Rica’s Cocos Island has been on your bucket list, you’ll want to well attain that now, equipped you live in sure U.S. states.
In accordance to the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica besides the Costa Rican Embassy in the United States, as of September 1st, 2020, U.S. citizen vacationers who’re residents of the states of Original York, Original Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, Original Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia could well honest enter Costa Rica on small flights departing from the United States.
As of September 15th, residents of Colorado, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will moreover be in a bunch of abode to enter Costa Rica on small flights departing from the United States.
To achieve so, however, you’ll must soar through several bureaucratic hoops: You’l must whole a digital epidemiological smartly being pass, ticket a unfavorable PCR-RT coronavirus test taken interior 72 hours of your departure from the United States, and rob walk insurance that covers accommodation in case of quarantine and medical payments due to COVID-19.
You’ll moreover must prove — via a official driver’s license or Instruct ID card — that you live in a single among those authorized states. No other kinds of documentation establishing residency in these states could be authorized. Accompanying minors won’t must have a driver’s license or Instruct ID card.
The Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT) has an English-language net location detailing these entry requirements, which you’ll want to well scrutinize here.
U.S. vacationers from the list of authorized states can enter Costa Rica via a flight with a layover in a non-authorized lisp or country. For instance, whereas you’re a Colorado resident, you’ll be in a bunch of abode to waft from Denver to Houston to Costa Rica, as prolonged as you don’t exit the airport in Houston.
As for other worldwide locations, these are the authorized ones, in accordance with the Costa Rican Tourism Board:
THE EUROPEAN UNION, SCHENGEN ZONE, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM: for flights from the European Union, the Schengen Zone, and the United Kingdom; for electorate and residents of the European Union, the Schengen Zone, and the United Kingdom.
CANADA: for flights from Canada; for electorate and residents of Canada and for electorate and residents of the European Union, the Schengen Zone, and the United Kingdom in transit.
SOUTH AMERICA: for flights from Uruguay; for electorate and residents of Uruguay.
ASIA: for flights from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and the Of us’s Republic of China; for electorate and residents of Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and the Of us’s Republic of China.
OCEANIA: for flights from Australia and Original Zealand; for electorate and residents of Australia and Original Zealand.
BIG, BIG NOTE: Undergo in thoughts that the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere conclude to over, and that walk prerequisites could well change at any time.
