Peru

Ley 30901 (2018) created a Poder Judicial sub-register of people convicted of rape, sexual touching, trafficking, femicide and related crimes. The law makes access public with ID and a stated reason. Press reporting describes Peru's register as not public. Migraciones must refuse entry to a foreigner who poses a threat to public order or to the rights of others, particularly women and children, and must pay special attention to people with records for related crimes (D. Leg. 1350 art. 48.1(b)). Migraciones reports refusing travellers with alerts for sexual abuse committed abroad.

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Each statement is labelled Law (statute, regulation or court ruling), Policy (official guidance) or Reported practice (what officials report doing). Items marked Recheck could not be fully confirmed from a primary source.

The country's own registry

Law Ley 30901 created a sub-register within the Poder Judicial's Registro Nacional de Condenas for people convicted of listed Penal Code crimes (arts. 1, 3). These include rape and all other offences in the sexual-violation chapter (arts. 170-176-A), procuring, offences against public decency, trafficking and sexual exploitation, homicide, femicide and serious injury (art. 2).
Source: Ley N.º 30901, subregistro de condenas e inhabilitación definitiva (texto, Congreso de la República)
Law The law says access to the sub-register is public and free. The Poder Judicial must provide a web link through which anyone may view it after registering a national identity document (DNI) and stating a reason (art. 3). Entries show name, ID number, nationality, case number, the offence, and any rehabilitation order (art. 5).
Source: Ley N.º 30901, subregistro de condenas e inhabilitación definitiva (texto, Congreso de la República)
Recheck: Whether the online access in art. 3 is working, and whether foreigners without a DNI can use it, was not confirmed.
Reported practice El Comercio reported in 2022 (updated 2024) that Peru's register of sexual offenders is private rather than public, and that several bills to create a public register had not passed.
Source: El Comercio: Perú es uno de los 5 países de Latinoamérica sin registro público de agresores sexuales (24 April 2022, updated 14 July 2024)
Recheck: Press report; confirm against the Poder Judicial's current practice.
Law A separate register of people convicted or prosecuted for terrorism, crimes against sexual freedom and drug trafficking exists for the education sector under Ley 29988.
Source: Ley N.º 29988, Registro de personas condenadas o procesadas (education sector), as amended by D.U. 019-2019 (cited by name)
Recheck: Cited by name; the official text and its 2019 amendments were not read.
Finding No published rule found as of October 27, 2026. No duty to register on the sub-register, or to report a change of address to it, was found; entries come from court sentences (Ley 30901 art. 4).

Entry and admissibility

Law Migraciones must refuse entry to a foreigner who poses a danger or threat to national security, public order, internal order, or the rights and freedoms of others, particularly women, girls, boys and adolescents. It must also do so to prevent criminal offences. Special attention is to be paid to refusing entry to people with records for crimes related to these matters (D. Leg. 1350 art. 48.1(b), as amended by Ley 30901).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023); Ley N.º 30901, subregistro de condenas e inhabilitación definitiva (texto, Congreso de la República)
Law Entry must also be refused to fugitives from justice in other states for common crimes, particularly against women and children, and for serious crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, terrorism and organised crime (art. 48.1(d)). The same applies to anyone still serving a ban after mandatory departure or expulsion (art. 48.1(a)).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023)
Law Migraciones may also refuse entry where national or foreign intelligence bodies classify the person as a risk to national security (art. 48.2(c)). It may refuse anyone who does not meet entry requirements or has an unpaid immigration fine (art. 48.2(a), (d)).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023); Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Reported practice Migraciones reported that 2,170 foreigners were refused entry at Lima's Jorge Chávez airport in 2023. They included some foreigners with alerts for sexual abuse committed in other countries, refused in line with Peru's commitments to prevent trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Source: Migraciones: Migraciones inadmitió a 2170 personas extranjeras en el Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez (30 December 2023)
Reported practice Migraciones says refusals are decided by the immigration inspector after checking alerts and entry bans and a secondary inspection. It screens passengers through the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) and exchanges information with Interpol, the police and other international agencies (2025 statement).
Source: Migraciones: Migraciones inadmite a 164 extranjeros en el nuevo Jorge Chávez por incumplir requisitos de ingreso (11 July 2025)

Visa / travel authorisation

Policy U.S. ordinary passport holders are exempt from the tourist visa. The Foreign Ministry list gives 90 days, extendable once for the same period, within 365 days of first entry.
Source: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores: Requerimientos y exoneración de visas para ciudadanos extranjeros con pasaportes ordinarios (16 July 2026)
Recheck: D. Leg. 1350 art. 29.1(h) describes the visa-exempt tourist stay as 183 days within 365; confirm the period Migraciones actually grants U.S. citizens.
Law Visa-exempt foreigners are admitted as tourists or business visitors depending on their planned activities. The tourist category does not allow paid work (art. 29.1(h); Foreign Ministry list).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023); Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores: Requerimientos y exoneración de visas para ciudadanos extranjeros con pasaportes ordinarios (16 July 2026)
Law A passport presented for entry must be valid for at least six months from the date of entry (art. 45.6, as amended in 2023).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Finding No published rule found as of October 27, 2026. No arrival or visa-exemption form asking visitors about criminal history was found.

Registration or reporting after arrival

Finding No published rule found as of October 27, 2026. No rule requiring a foreign sex offender to register or report after arrival was found.
Law Hotels and other lodging providers must record each foreign guest's nationality, date of birth, name, sex, travel document number and dates of stay. They must send this to Migraciones and give it access for inspections (art. 63, as amended in 2023).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Law Foreign residents hold a carné de extranjería. Failing to update the information on it is an immigration offence punishable by a fine (art. 56.2(a)).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023); Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)

Residency, employment and housing

Law A foreigner applying for any immigration status must have no current police, criminal or court records, and no Interpol alerts. The applicant must also not fall within the art. 48 entry bars (Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN art. 58).
Source: Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023)
Policy Migraciones requires applicants for worker residence and permanent residence to have no police, criminal or court record in their country of origin, or in countries where they lived before arriving in Peru. They must prove this for the five years before arrival. Worker residence applicants also file an Interpol record no more than six months old.
Source: gob.pe: Solicitar cambio de calidad migratoria trabajador residente (Migraciones); gob.pe: Solicitar cambio a calidad migratoria permanente residente (Migraciones)
Law Anyone convicted of the crimes covered by Ley 30901 is barred from working with or providing services to children and adolescents, in the public or private sector, even if rehabilitated. The bar expressly covers schools and higher education (art. 6). Employers must ask applicants and, every year, staff for a printout of the sub-register (art. 7).
Source: Ley N.º 30901, subregistro de condenas e inhabilitación definitiva (texto, Congreso de la República)
Recheck: The law refers to convictions for Peruvian Penal Code offences; whether it is applied to foreign convictions was not confirmed.

Removal, rehabilitation or waivers

Law Mandatory departure (salida obligatoria) can carry a re-entry ban of up to 5 years. Expulsion carries a re-entry ban of up to 15 years, counted from departure (art. 54(b)-(c), as amended in 2023).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Law Foreigners are expelled by order of the judiciary, or on release after serving a sentence or on a prison benefit; in that case re-entry is prohibited in all cases. For those two grounds the length of the re-entry ban is set by the judicial authority (arts. 58.1(g)-(h), 54).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Law Expulsion also applies to activities that endanger public order, internal order, national security or citizen security (art. 58.1(f)). An expulsion or mandatory-departure sanction leads to cancellation of the person's immigration status (art. 32.1(d)).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023); Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones: Migraciones, Ley y Reglamento (D. Leg. 1350 and Reglamento D.S. 007-2017-IN, annotated, June 2023)
Law Migraciones may waive an entry ban in exceptional cases, on its own initiative or on request, by a reasoned decision (art. 53.4, added in 2023).
Source: Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582, amending D. Leg. 1350 (El Peruano, 14 November 2023)
Recheck: D. Leg. 1350 was amended again in 2024 (including Ley 32192 and D. Leg. 1687); confirm arts. 48, 53, 54 and 58 against the current official text in SPIJ.

What U.S. rules still apply

Law U.S. law still applies to the trip itself: registrants must report international travel at least 21 days in advance, and the U.S. may notify the destination country before arrival. See the U.S. travel guide for the notice rule, the passport identifier and how notifications work.
Source: ComplianceAtlas: Traveling Abroad as a U.S. Registrant

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International laws, immigration policies, and registry requirements change frequently and may vary depending on citizenship, visa type, offense history, and purpose of travel. Entry decisions are made solely by each country's immigration authorities. Always verify current requirements using official government sources before traveling. This page is not legal advice.