South America

Venezuela

No import permitRabies vaccine neededVet certificate within 30 days of arrival

Before you sail

Rabies vaccine within 1 year before arrival
Veterinary health certificate issued within 30 days of arrival, endorsed by the exporting country's veterinary authority
Parasite treatment — internal and external
Dogs vaccinated against: Rabia / anti-rábica — current, within the last year, "Séxtuple en caso de Canino" — the canine séxtuple, per the consular restatement; the component diseases are not named by any source found
Cats vaccinated against: Rabia / anti-rábica — current, within the last year, "la triple en Felino" — the feline triple, per the consular restatement; the component diseases are not named by any source found

Not requiredImport permit

Not documented Rabies titer test · Microchip · Quarantine

Fees

Permit

THE TWO CONSULAR FIGURES DISAGREE, BY A FACTOR OF TEN. Venezuela's Embassy in France and its Consulate General in Bilbao both publish, word for word: "Tasa o depósito bancario a nombre del INSAI de 5 UT, según los establecido en el Articulo 81 numeral 32 de la Ley de salud Agrícola Integral" — a fee or bank deposit in INSAI's name of 5 UT, per Article 81 numeral 32 of the Law of Integral Agricultural Health. Venezuela's Embassy in Poland publishes the same sentence with "0.5 UT". INSAI's own requirements page publishes no fee for entry at all. INSAI's RUNSAI export manual uses 0.5 UT, but for a different charge — the second payment, made at the departure airport for the export inspection certificate. Nothing found resolves which figure applies to an arriving animal.confidence: Conflicting. Sources disagree — verify before you rely on it.^[3,4,5,1,2]

Other

Paid, per the consular pages, at Simón Bolívar International Airport, Maiquetía, floor 3 of the customs enclosure, INSAI Airport Office (passenger section), for the issue of the guía de movilización. Payable as a tasa or as a bank deposit in INSAI's name; the consular pages do not give an account number. INSAI's own site publishes a Banco de Venezuela account, 0102-0552-21-0000019855, but under the heading "Permisos para Exportación de Mascotas" — export — so it is not recorded here as the account for an arriving animal.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4,5,1]

NO CURRENCY AMOUNT IS RECORDED HERE, DELIBERATELY. The UT — unidad tributaria — is a unit of account whose bolívar value is set administratively and moves; 5 UT and 0.5 UT are figures in that unit, not prices. This file records the figures as published and the legal citation behind them (Ley de Salud Agrícola Integral, Artículo 81 numeral 32) and does not convert them, because no sourced conversion was available at author time and an invented one would be worse than none. Ask INSAI for the current bolívar amount, and for which of the two published figures is right.^[3,4,5]

Timeline

1 year before arrivalRabies vaccine given no earlier than this
30 days – arrivalVeterinary health certificate issued in this window
4 weeks before arrivalHave the US rabies certification form endorsed before you sailGetting home again — a rule of where you sail from, not Venezuela's (Leaving from the United States) · See it on the departure countdown
ONLY NEEDED IF your route touches a country CDC treats as high risk for dog rabies — and it cannot be arranged once you have left. CDC readmits a US-vaccinated dog from a high-risk country on a Certification of U.S.-issued Rabies Vaccination form, and "The form must be submitted to USDA and endorsed BEFORE the dog leaves the United States". "USDA endorsement of the form may take several weeks", so this is the step to start first. WITHOUT IT, YOUR DOG CANNOT COME HOME ON THE BOAT. It falls under the rules for foreign-vaccinated dogs from a high-risk country, and those close every seaport: such a dog "Can only enter at a U.S. airport with a CDC-registered animal care facility where the dog has a reservation". Land borders are closed to it as well. The only sea exception is a qualifying service dog with a titer, travelling with the person it assists. The alternative CDC used to accept — a USDA-endorsed export health certificate — covers only certificates issued "no later than July 31, 2025", so it is closed to anyone arranging travel now. Eight destinations on this site are on CDC's high-risk list — Belize, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Suriname and Venezuela — and the Dominican Republic is the one most likely to catch an eastern-Caribbean itinerary. The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos and the BVI are not on it.
ArrivalPresent the certificate; clear the animal before going ashore.

On arrival & aboard

At the dock: THE ONLY PUBLISHED PROCEDURE IS AN AIRPORT ONE. The fee for the permiso sanitario para la movilización is paid, per the consulates, at Simón Bolívar International Airport, Maiquetía — "Piso 3 Recinto de aduana en La Oficina Aeroportuaria INSAI (Sección Pasajero)", floor 3 of the customs enclosure at the INSAI Airport Office, passenger section — and the guía de movilización is issued there. No other office, and no seaport, is named as a place a dog or cat may be brought into the country. For contrast, INSAI's RUNSAI manual for pet EXPORT does name maritime exits, Puerto de La Guaira and Puerto Cabello, so INSAI plainly contemplates animals crossing the border by sea in the other direction — but no equivalent list exists for arrivals. Be precise about what is and is not on that export list: Isla de Margarita IS on it, as the "Aeropuerto Internacional 'Santiago Mariño', Isla de Margarita, estado Nueva Esparta" — by AIR, not as a seaport. Puerto La Cruz and Cumaná appear nowhere. The manual also treats Nueva Esparta separately for counter service, saying the Caracas taquilla is "válido para usuarios en todo el territorio nacional exceptuando el estado Nueva Esparta" — valid for users throughout the national territory EXCEPT Nueva Esparta state, which implies separate handling for Margarita and is worth chasing if that is your base. How a yacht arriving at any of these presents an animal, and where the guía de movilización is obtained if not at Maiquetía, is unresolved.
By yacht: That INSAI contemplates animals crossing the border by sea on the way OUT, and publishes nothing for the way in, is the shape of the gap rather than a rule to read around it. Settle the arrival with INSAI before committing to the passage.

Quarantine

Not yet documented

If your papers are not in order

Not documented in either direction. Neither INSAI nor any consulate mentions quarantine, holding, or what becomes of an animal whose papers do not satisfy the inspection. That is silence, not an assurance. Ask INSAI what happens on a failed check before you arrive.confidence: Unknown. Not located in any source yet.

Open questions

High priority

HIGH PRIORITY — THE PUBLISHED PROCEDURE IS AN AIRPORT PROCEDURE AND THERE IS NO SEA EQUIVALENT. The fee is paid at a desk on floor 3 of the customs hall at Maiquetía and the guía de movilización is issued there. No source found names a seaport at which a dog or a cat may be brought into Venezuela. Puerto La Cruz and Cumaná appear in no source at all. Isla de Margarita does appear, but only as an AIRPORT on the export list — "Aeropuerto Internacional 'Santiago Mariño'" — which is not the same as a maritime entry point, and the same manual excludes Nueva Esparta state from the Caracas counter's coverage, implying a separate local arrangement worth asking about. Ask INSAI: where does a yacht present an animal, who inspects it, and how is the guía de movilización obtained by someone who never passes through an airport? Nothing on this page should be read as evidence that the airport procedure has been extended to sea arrivals; it has simply not been addressed.
HIGH PRIORITY — INSAI'S OWN TEXT IS THREE LINES AND EVERY DETAIL BELOW IT IS CONSULAR. INSAI publishes only: current International Health Certificate, current Vaccination Certificate, current national anti-rabies certificate and deworming certificate. The one-year and one-month validities, the séxtuple/triple, the three-month deworming validity, the origin-country zoosanitary export certificate, the EU microchip-and-titer condition and the whole fee-and-guía procedure appear only on consular pages restating INSAI. Those pages are undated. Get INSAI to confirm the detailed list is current and complete before treating any of it as the operative rule.
HIGH PRIORITY — THE FEE IS PUBLISHED TWO DIFFERENT WAYS BY TWO OFFICIAL BODIES. France and Bilbao say 5 UT; Poland says 0.5 UT, in an otherwise identical sentence. INSAI's own page publishes no entry fee. Establish which is correct, what the current bolívar value of the UT is, whether payment is a tasa in cash or a bank deposit, and to which account — the account INSAI publishes is filed under EXPORT permits.

Also open

Confirm the reading of INSAI's page itself. It is laid out as "Requisitos destino a:" — requirements by destination — with a VENEZUELA block first and then every foreign country, and the bank-account panel above it is headed "Permisos para Exportación de Mascotas". The natural reading, taken here, is that destination Venezuela is the import case; but the page is otherwise an export page throughout, so ask INSAI to confirm the VENEZUELA block really is what an arriving animal must satisfy.
Establish who must issue the certificates. The Poland embassy says the vaccination card must come from a veterinarian "autorizado o acreditado por las autoridades competentes del país de origen" — accredited by the ORIGIN country's authorities. Two other rules circulate, and both are about animals LEAVING rather than arriving. The INSAI-registration requirement — the vet must be "registrado ante el INSAI" — is INSAI's own, stated repeatedly in its RUNSAI export manual, not merely an industry claim; but it is stated for export, and no source imposes it on an arriving animal. A cruiser could not use an INSAI-registered vet abroad in any case. The ten-day figure is narrower than it looks: the industry-association page ties it to MERCOSUR destinations specifically — "Para los países del MERCOSUR debe ser emitido 10 días antes del viaje" — and counts it to the TRIP, not to the application. Neither rule is recorded as an entry requirement anywhere in this file. Ask INSAI which, if either, applies to an arriving animal.
The origin-country zoosanitary export certificate is the heaviest item on the consular list and INSAI's own page does not mention it. Confirm whether it is genuinely required, and if so what form satisfies it for a boat arriving from a Caribbean island whose veterinary authority issues nothing of the kind.
The rabies titer and microchip apply only to arrivals from the European Union, with the EU pet passport offered as an alternative. For a yacht coming down from Martinique, Guadeloupe or Saint-Martin that is live. Establish what counts as arriving "from" the EU for a boat — the last port cleared, the animal's residence, or anywhere it has been — and confirm the passport really substitutes for the test. No threshold, laboratory or post-sample waiting period is published by anyone.
Nothing published sets a minimum age, a rabies waiting period, a vaccine type, a booster rule, a breed restriction, a maximum number of animals, or any quarantine or consequence for a non-compliant animal. Each of those is an absence of information rather than an exemption. Ask INSAI what happens on a failed inspection, because no source says.
Separately, and about LEAVING rather than arriving: INSAI's own RUNSAI export manual states that pet export permits for Aruba, Bonaire, Curazao and Trinidad y Tobago are issued only where the owner is taking up residence there, and not to a tourist, and that the only valid maritime exits from Venezuela are Puerto de La Guaira and Puerto Cabello. Confirm how, or whether, either rule is applied to a cruising yacht departing from Puerto La Cruz or Margarita, since it governs whether the animal can lawfully leave.
Nothing addresses an animal that stays aboard and never lands, so no transit section is authored here.

About this page’s sources

Confirm the legal citation actually says what the consulates say it says. They cite Artículo 81 numeral 32 of the Ley de Salud Agrícola Integral for the movement-permit fee; the text of that article was not retrieved at author time and is not quoted here. Read it before relying on the figure.
ARCHIVING WAS ONLY PARTLY FRESH — check the snapshot dates before relying on them. The RUNSAI manual and the Poland embassy page were captured live at author time (2026-08-13), as was the AVISA page. For three others the Wayback save endpoint was rate-limited or errored and served, or was replaced by, an OLDER existing capture: INSAI's requirements page 2026-03-16, the France embassy page 2025-09-18, and the Bilbao consulate page 2022-07-04. Each of those three was opened and checked to carry the same text quoted here — including the 5 UT figure on both consular pages — but a 2022 capture is not evidence of what Bilbao publishes today. Note also that the RUNSAI manual is served over plain http, not https, which defeats fetch tooling that upgrades the scheme; it was retrieved with curl. Re-archive everything at the next review.

Page status

South America · Sovereign republic (República Bolivariana de Venezuela)Dataset status Inferredconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.Last checked 2026-08-12 Recently checkedfreshness: Recently checked. Sources were last re-read 61 days ago, well inside the 180-day window. Recent is not reviewed — this page is still an unreviewed draft.

Evidence

Import permit

Permit

Not required^[3,4,5]

What it costs

No fee is charged for a prior import permit, because for a dog or a cat no prior import permit is described at all. The consular pages state that a Permiso de Importación issued by INSAI, plus a permit from the Ministry of Environment, is needed only "si el interesado desea ingresar al país una mascota que sea distinta a Caninos y Felinos" — if the pet is something other than a dog or a cat. What IS charged is a separate movement permit collected on arrival at the airport; see the `fees` section, where the two consular figures disagree.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4,5]

Email: atencionalciudadano@insai.gob.ve
Official page: https://www.insai.gob.ve/requisitos

Rabies

Vaccination

Required^[1,3,4,5]

Min. age at vaccination

Not documented for entry. No source found sets a minimum age or a minimum vaccination age for an animal being brought INTO Venezuela. INSAI's RUNSAI export manual does state that pets under three months may not travel to the European Union or England because dogs and cats under three months are not vaccinated against rabies — but that is a rule about leaving Venezuela for those destinations, not about arriving here, and it is not recorded as an entry requirement.

Min. before travel

Not documented. No source found imposes a waiting period between the rabies vaccination and entry. Absence of a stated wait is not the same as a stated exemption — confirm with INSAI before relying on a vaccination given days before sailing.

Max. before travel

365 days ("Original y Copia de Certificado de Vacunación Anti-Rábica Vigente, con un lapso no mayor de un (1) año" — original and copy of a current anti-rabies vaccination certificate, no more than one year old. Consular restatement; INSAI's own page says only "vigente". No source found says whether a three-year vaccine given eighteen months ago satisfies "no more than one year", and the wording reads as though it does not.)^[3,4,5]

Boosters, and what the certificate must show

Not documented beyond currency. The certificate must be "vigente" and, per the consulates, no more than a year old. No source found names an approved vaccine type, requires an inactivated product, distinguishes a primary course from a booster, or says whether the microchip must precede the vaccination.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]

Rabies titer test

A blood test that measures rabies antibodies, to show the vaccination actually took. The sample has to be drawn a set time after the jab, and some places then make you wait months more before the animal may land — so this is the requirement most worth checking before you plan a route, not after.

Required level

CONDITIONAL ON ORIGIN, AND WITH AN ALTERNATIVE. The consular restatement requires a titer only of pets arriving from the European Union: "Las mascotas que van a ingresar a Venezuela provenientes de la Unión Europea deben tener un microchip de identificación para mascotas (Caninos y/o Felinos) y el examen de Anticuerpos Neutralizantes de la Rabia o en su defecto presentar original y copia del pasaporte de la Unión Europea de su mascota" — pets entering Venezuela from the European Union must have a pet microchip and the Rabies Neutralising Antibody test, or failing that present the original and copy of their EU pet passport. The Poland embassy extends the same condition to England. So for a boat arriving from Martinique, Guadeloupe or Saint-Martin this is live; for a boat from Trinidad it is not, and an EU pet passport is offered as a substitute for the test. No numeric threshold in IU/ml, no approved laboratory list and no waiting period after the blood draw is published by anyone. INSAI's own page says nothing about a titer for entry at all.^[3,4,5]

Veterinary health certificate

Certificate

Required^[1,3,4,5]

Evidence for Certificate

Original y Copia de Certificado de Salud Internacional Vigente, donde conste que el ejemplar a importar, fue sometido a una evaluación y que para el momento de ésta, no presentaba signos ni síntomas de ninguna enfermedad infecto contagiosa (vigencia de un (1) mes).

Completed within

30 days ("vigencia de un (1) mes" — one month's validity, stated by the consular restatement and NOT by INSAI's own page, which says only "Vigente" (current). The consulates do not say whether the month runs to departure or to arrival, which on a passage decides whether the paper is still good at the dock. Note also that a one-month document and an airport payment desk are both written for someone who flies in the same week they see the vet.)^[3,4,5]

Gov. endorsement

Required^[3,4,5]

Evidence for Gov. endorsement

Certificado zoosanitario de exportación para mascotas (Caninos y/o Felinos) del país de origen emitido por las autoridades competentes del país de origen.

Form: Certificado de Salud Internacional Vigente (current International Health Certificate) — original and copy. Required by INSAI's own page and by the consulates., Certificado Nacional de Vacunación Anti-rábica vigente (current national anti-rabies vaccination certificate) — original and copy. Required by INSAI's own page and by the consulates., Certificado / Tarjeta de Vacunación Vigente (current vaccination certificate or card) — original and copy. INSAI's page names it without detail; the consulates add that it must show the séxtuple for dogs or the triple for cats and identify the batch, expiry date and product name, with one year's validity. The Poland embassy adds that it be issued by a veterinarian "autorizado o acreditado por las autoridades competentes del país de origen" — authorised or accredited by the competent authorities of the country of ORIGIN, which is not the same as the INSAI-registered veterinarian the export procedure requires., Constancia de Desparasitación Interna y Externa Vigente (current internal and external deworming record) — original and copy, containing the full identification of the product used and the date it was given. INSAI's page names a "Certificado de Desparasitación"; the three-month validity is consular only., "Certificado zoosanitario de exportación para mascotas (Caninos y/o Felinos) del país de origen emitido por las autoridades competentes del país de origen" — a zoosanitary export certificate for the pet issued by the competent authorities of the country of origin. Consular only; INSAI's own page does not mention it. This is the item that makes the paperwork an official-to-official document rather than a vet's letter, so it is the one to settle first.

What the certificate must say

INSAI's own page, in full: "Original y copia de Certificado de Salud Internacional Vigente" — original and copy of a current International Health Certificate. The consular restatement expands it: "Original y Copia de Certificado de Salud Internacional Vigente, donde conste que el ejemplar a importar, fue sometido a una evaluación y que para el momento de ésta, no presentaba signos ni síntomas de ninguna enfermedad infecto contagiosa (vigencia de un (1) mes)" — original and copy of a current International Health Certificate recording that the animal to be imported was examined and that at that moment it showed no signs or symptoms of any infectious or contagious disease, valid one month.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4]

Parasite treatment

Internal

"Original y Copia de Constancia de Desparasitación Interna y Externa Vigente" — original and copy of a current internal AND external deworming record. INSAI's own page requires a "Certificado de Desparasitación" without further detail.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]

External

Covered by the same document: the record is expressly for desparasitación interna y externa, internal and external. No source names an approved product, a class of product, or a persistence requirement for the external treatment.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]

Timing

Consular restatement: "vigencia de tres (3) meses" — three months' validity — and the record must contain "la identificación completa del producto utilizado y la fecha de aplicación del mismo", the full identification of the product used and the date it was given. INSAI's own page states no validity period. Three months is a validity on the document, not a stated minimum interval before travel; nothing says how soon before arrival the treatment must be given.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4,5,1]

The three consular posts are word-for-word identical on this requirement, the three-month figure included — they do not diverge here the way they do elsewhere in this file.^[3,4,5]

MIND THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL. INSAI's RUNSAI manual carries the same sentence about a "Constancia de Desparasitación Interna y Externa Vigente", but it is the manual for the EXPORT permit — animals leaving Venezuela — and it adds that the record be issued by a veterinarian registered with INSAI, which no entry source requires. It states no validity period either. Nothing above is taken from it.^[2,1]

Identification

Standard

"microchip de identificación de 12 a 15 dígitos" — a 12-to-15-digit identification microchip. No source cites ISO 11784 or 11785 by number, and none mentions providing a reader for a non-conforming chip.^[5]

INSAI's RUNSAI manual states the same "microchip de identificación de 12 a 15 dígitos" at p. 24, but for animals TRAVELLING TO the European Union and England rather than arriving from them — it is an export permit manual, and that clause records the EU's requirement on Venezuelan animals. It is recorded here because the wording is identical and mirror-image, which is exactly how a reader or a future editor could mistake it for support.^[2]

A microchip is required ONLY of pets arriving from the European Union (the Poland embassy adds England), and even then the consular text offers the EU pet passport as an alternative to the microchip-plus-titer pair. No source found requires a microchip of an animal arriving from anywhere else, and INSAI's own page does not mention microchips for entry at all. Nothing says the chip must precede the rabies vaccination. `microchip_required` is left unset rather than answered true or false, because neither answer is honest for a boat whose last port decides it.^[1,3,4,5]

Animals & vaccinations

Dogs

Vaccinesconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4,5]

Rabia / anti-rábica — current, within the last year
"Séxtuple en caso de Canino" — the canine séxtuple, per the consular restatement; the component diseases are not named by any source found

Cats

Vaccinesconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4,5]

Rabia / anti-rábica — current, within the last year
"la triple en Felino" — the feline triple, per the consular restatement; the component diseases are not named by any source found

Other health requirements

Note

WHAT INSAI ITSELF PUBLISHES, IN FULL, for destination Venezuela: original and copy of a current International Health Certificate; original and copy of a current Vaccination Certificate; original and copy of a current national anti-rabies vaccination certificate and a deworming certificate. Three lines. No named vaccine, no validity period, no fee, no microchip, no minimum age, no port and no procedure. Everything more detailed anywhere on this page, including the detail added to the items above, is a consulate restating INSAI rather than INSAI, and where the two differ INSAI governs. ANIMALS OTHER THAN DOGS AND CATS: the consular pages state that anyone wishing to bring in a pet "que sea distinta a Caninos y Felinos" must first obtain an import permit from INSAI and a further permit from the Ministry of Environment; that requirement is recorded under import_permit, and this file covers dogs and cats only.

Dogs: NO DISEASE TESTING is published for any origin — no serology, no heartworm, brucella or leishmania test. What the paperwork must record is an examination, not a laboratory result: the health certificate must show the animal "fue sometido a una evaluación y que para el momento de ésta, no presentaba signos ni síntomas de ninguna enfermedad infecto contagiosa" (consular wording), that it was examined and at that moment showed no signs or symptoms of any infectious or contagious disease. The only laboratory test named by any source found is the rabies neutralising-antibody test the consulates impose on animals arriving from the European Union — the Poland embassy extends it to "Inglaterra", England — which is recorded under rabies_titer. INSAI's own three-line text for destination Venezuela names no test at all.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO BREED RESTRICTION is published by any source found. INSAI's own requirements page for destination Venezuela does not mention breed, and neither do the three consular restatements of it. That is an absence of information, not an exemption: INSAI's published text on bringing a dog in runs to three lines and is plainly not the whole of Venezuelan animal-health law.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO EXCLUSION BY ORIGIN is published. Nothing in INSAI's text or in the consular restatements bars a dog from any country or region, imposes a residency period in the country of departure, or conditions entry on the rabies status of the origin country. The one origin-dependent rule found anywhere is a condition rather than a bar — the microchip and rabies-antibody test the consulates require of animals coming from the European Union, graded under rabies_titer and identification. Again an absence of information: no source states that every origin is admissible.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ANIMALS is published, and no count is named above which the movement would stop being a pet import. Every source is written in the singular — "la mascota", the pet — and none says whether more than one animal may travel with one owner, or what happens if it does.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
Cats: NO DISEASE TESTING is published for any origin — no serology, no FeLV or FIV test. What the paperwork must record is an examination, not a laboratory result: the health certificate must show the animal "fue sometido a una evaluación y que para el momento de ésta, no presentaba signos ni síntomas de ninguna enfermedad infecto contagiosa" (consular wording), that it was examined and at that moment showed no signs or symptoms of any infectious or contagious disease. The only laboratory test named by any source found is the rabies neutralising-antibody test the consulates impose on animals arriving from the European Union — the Poland embassy extends it to "Inglaterra", England — which is recorded under rabies_titer. INSAI's own three-line text for destination Venezuela names no test at all.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO BREED RESTRICTION is published by any source found. INSAI's own requirements page for destination Venezuela does not mention breed, and neither do the three consular restatements of it. That is an absence of information, not an exemption: INSAI's published text on bringing a cat in runs to three lines and is plainly not the whole of Venezuelan animal-health law.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO EXCLUSION BY ORIGIN is published. Nothing in INSAI's text or in the consular restatements bars a cat from any country or region, imposes a residency period in the country of departure, or conditions entry on the rabies status of the origin country. The one origin-dependent rule found anywhere is a condition rather than a bar — the microchip and rabies-antibody test the consulates require of animals coming from the European Union, graded under rabies_titer and identification. Again an absence of information: no source states that every origin is admissible.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]
NO MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ANIMALS is published, and no count is named above which the movement would stop being a pet import. Every source is written in the singular — "la mascota", the pet — and none says whether more than one animal may travel with one owner, or what happens if it does.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4,5]

Sources

1
Importación y Exportación Mascotas — Requisitos destino a — Instituto Nacional de Salud Agrícola Integral (INSAI)
veterinary authorityAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy
2
Manual de Usuario Público — Permisos de Exportación Animal (Perros y Gatos), Sistema RUNSAI — Instituto Nacional de Salud Agrícola Integral (INSAI) — Oficina de Tecnología de la Información
veterinary authorityAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy
3
¿Cómo puedo llevar mi mascota a Venezuela? — Embajada de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en la República Francesa — Sección Consular
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy
4
¿Cómo puedo llevar mi mascota a Venezuela? — Consulado General de Venezuela en Bilbao
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy
5
Ingreso de mascotas — Embajada de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en la República de Polonia
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy
6
Requisitos para emisión de permisos de exportación de mascotas — AVISA Venezuela — animal health industry association (not a government body)
secondaryAccessed 2026-08-12in ES — translated herearchived copy

Last checked August 2026 · 3 high-priority open questions · Sources & questions

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