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Non-Resident
- Tourist's visa: Visa for foreigners who come to the country exclusively for recreation and other activities established in the law, valid for a term not longer than ninety days.
- Visa for Passengers and crew in transit: Visa for the foreigners who come to the national territory and have to resume trip abroad, within the twelve hours following to their arrival and are in scale inside a route, as well as the crew members or passengers of international transportation mean, and those who remain in migratory facilities.
- Sailors' visa: Visa for the foreigners who enter to the national territory with the intention of embarking as crew members, in ports and in national waters to initiate their works on board of a vessel. These can remain in the country for a period not longer than five days. In case of force majeure or fortuitous case, this period can be extended, prior authorization previous of the General Director or of the authorized public officer in airports, ports or migratory control facilities.
- Visa for show workforce: This visa can be requested by the company that hires a foreigner to work in show activities, for the maximum term of nine not extendable months.
- Visa for passers-by o temporary employee: This visa can be requested by the company that hires a foreigner to work for only once and that in a temporary form enters to the territory to perform a technical work, of the cultural, artistic or musical, sports, professional, educational or scientific field, specifically in a company or certain work, for a maximum term of three not extendable months. This visa can be requested when the stay is not lower than fifteen calendars days.
- Visa for domestic staff: This visa can be requested by that national or the temporary or permanent resident who hires a foreigner to work as employee of domestic service, for a term of an extendable year. As soon as the employment is finished, both the foreigner and the employer have the obligation to notify the completion of the labor relation that will cancel the visa.
- Short stay Visa: This short stay visa can be requested by the foreigner who enters to the national territory without intending to establish his residence in Panama, with the purposes that established further on. The foreigner will have to justify the term that needs, which can be of up to nine (9) months. It is a not extendable visa after such term is expired.
- Short stay visa for business: This visa can be requested by the foreigner than, before entering to the country, with the purpose of establishing foreign branches in the Republic of Panama applies for a short stay visa for business complying with the presentation of requirements of law.
- Short stay visa to visit relatives: This visa can be requested by the foreigner who enters to the national territory with the intention of visiting his spouse, consanguineous relative on ascending or descending straight line, collateral relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity that verify to be nationals or temporary or permanent residents.
- Short stay visa for investigators and scientists: This visa can be requested by the foreigner who enters to the national territory to realize, without profit ends, the following activities: student exchanges, cultural, educational missions, of health, scientific, of investigation and internships. These must be granted by virtue of agreements celebrated with the State or between embassies or legations; foreign legal persons and companies, educational, governmental institutions or not governmental organizations recognized by the Panamanian laws.
- Short stay visa for medical treatment: This visa can be requested by the foreigner who confirms that will be submitted to a medical treatment in hospitals and public or private clinics, which does not exceed nine months.
- Short stay visa as merchants and investors due to special laws: This permit can be requested by the foreigner who enters to the national territory to analyze possibilities of investment or to carry out in Processing Zones for the Exportation, Call Center or special Areas designated for the development of the Movie and Audio-visual Industry for the established term and the conditions contemplated in the Law No. 25 of 1992.
- Short stay visa for international humanitarian assistance: This visa can be requested by the foreigner who comes on behalf of governmental or non-governmental organisms duly accredited, that enter to the country to propitiate an ordained help management, achieving an ideal use of the resources to reduce by means of the national compound action, the loss of human lives, damages to the properties and solutions to the emergency that could be caused, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs determines it.
- Short stay visa for the banking sector: To request this short stay visa for the banking sector, the foreigner can enter to the national territory, with the purpose of establishing, of giving or receiving training, attend to meetings, conventions, workshops, seminars, courses, internships, audits, reviews and inspection of programs and procedures in banking institutions that have general, international or representation license procedures and banking institutions that have general, international or representation license.
- Visa for passengers and crew members of vessels with recreation or tourism purposes: This visa can be request by the foreigner who enters to the national territory by means of yachts or sailing ships with pleasure or tourism ends, for the term established by the navigation license issued by the General Directorate of Merchant Marine of the Maritime Authority of Panama.
When the yacht or sailing ship is of foreign flag and this one have a navigation license for a term of three months, the foreign passengers and crew members can remain in the national territory for an equal period; in case of needing an extension the application will be evaluated, as long as it has been previously approved the extension of the navigation permit of the vessel.
When the yacht or sailing ship is of Panamanian flag and this one have it navigation license for a term of one year, the foreign passengers and crew members can apply for the corresponding visa up to a maximum of the term allowed by the General Directorate of Merchant Marine, as long as the requirements demanded by the respective authorities are complied.
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