Your authorized stay in Peru expired: what to do and how much you'll pay

You have 30 days, without leaving the country

If your authorized stay expired and you didn’t renew it in time, article 220.1 of the Immigration Law’s regulation gives you a specific window: 30 calendar days, counted from the day after expiration, to regularize your status without needing to leave Peru. Within that window you must do three things at once (article 220.2): file your application, meet the requirements of the immigration status you’re switching to, and pay the fine for the overstay already accrued.

This runs against what many people assume. You don’t need to leave the country to “reset” your status — in fact, leaving without regularizing is exactly what triggers the fine at the exit immigration control, under article 190.a.

How much you’ll pay

The overstay fine is 0.1% of the UIT for each day of overstay (article 190, letter a). It is not a flat amount or a rate an official decides on the spot. Two details change the calculation:

• The UIT that counts is the one in force on the date the infraction was committed, not the day you pay (article 188.2). At the 2026 UIT (S/ 5,500), each day of overstay costs roughly S/ 5.50 as a reference. What the rule does not say is which date counts for each day of an overstay that lasts several days: the day your stay expired, each day of overstay, or the day you leave. Nor does it say how it applies if the overstay crosses a year change, when the UIT value changes. None of the norms cited on this page settles it; if it affects you, ask Migraciones for the official calculation.
• The calculation is cumulative: if you overstayed 45 days, the fine is calculated for the 45 days of overstay, not a flat bracket.

If Migraciones doesn’t approve your application

Filing within the 30 days doesn’t guarantee approval. Article 220.3 covers that: if your application is denied, Migraciones gives you 15 more calendar days to leave the country on your own. If you also miss that second deadline, the mandatory-departure order is issued — the sanction is no longer in your hands.

There’s one more door for someone who didn’t manage to apply within the first 30 days: article 220.4 lets Migraciones exceptionally evaluate applications filed outside the deadline when there is duly justified force majeure, illness, or a fortuitous event. It is not an automatic process — you have to support it, not just claim it.

Mandatory departure and expulsion are not the same

Being in irregular status over an overstay and not regularizing in time is specifically grounds for mandatory departure (article 57.1, letter a, of the Immigration Law, in the text Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582 gave it in 2023) — not expulsion. They are different sanctions, with different consequences under article 54:

Two caveats on that table. For expulsions ordered by a court or following a completed sentence (article 58.1, letters g and h), the length of the ban is set by the judicial authority, not by Migraciones. And although article 54 no longer says re-entry is conditioned on paying the fine — that sentence left the text with Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582 — an unpaid fine is still an obstacle: article 48.2, letter d), lets Migraciones refuse entry to someone who has not paid it.

Expulsion has its own grounds — falsified documents, acting against public order, a court order, among others — and one of them is precisely repeating any mandatory-departure ground (article 58.1.b). In other words: an unregularized overstay, by itself, does not lead to expulsion; repeating it after an earlier mandatory departure can.

What to do

If your stay already expired, count the days from the day after expiration, not from today. If you’re within the 30 days, file the regularization application now, with the requirements for the immigration status that applies to you and the fine as Migraciones calculates it (article 188.2 uses the UIT value in force on the date the infraction was committed). If the 30 days already passed, gather the documentation supporting the force majeure, illness, or fortuitous event that kept you from applying on time, and file anyway: article 220.4 exists for exactly that case. And if you end up with a mandatory-departure order, check the page on Migraciones’ sanctions to understand the rest of the procedure and your options against a possible expulsion.

Calculate it

The overstay fine calculator estimates the fine from your extra days and your situation. Go to the overstay fine calculator.

If you’re not sure which window you’re in yet (the 30 days to regularize, or the extra 15 if your request was denied), the regularization deadline tracker tells you before you calculate the fine.

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