Cubans may request a purchase card to enter Panamanian
territory, according to a statement issued by the National
Migration Service Panama (SMP). The document will be issued at the
consulate of this Ithmian country in Havana, will have a price
equivalent to 20 dollars and will allow an entry for 30 days.
To acquire the purchasing card, Cubans must present their
identification as self-employed, or in their absence, a certificate
that they work as creators or craftsmen. There is also the
possibility of obtaining the document having previously traveled to
Panama or to another country.
Cubans who have a Panamanian visa will not need the purchase
card. Panama grants some 1,000 visas stamped every month to
citizens of the Island and so far in 2018 there are more than
35,900 entries to Panama from Cuba. Last year they were more than
71,700, a figure much higher than in 2010, when they hardly
traveled 6,000.
