Curaçao’s Digital Immigration Card is free. The official portal is dicardcuracao.com, it takes about five minutes, and there’s no processing fee, no service charge. Nothing. The Curaçao government and the island’s official tourism site, curacao.com, have both publicly warned that non-official websites are charging travelers for this form — up to $156 per person in documented cases. Some of those sites appear as sponsored search results above the official portal.

The form is called the DI Card (Digital Immigration Card) and it’s required for every air arrival in Curaçao. Americans fly to Curaçao visa-free for up to 90 days. The DI Card is a completely separate requirement. Not needing a visa doesn’t mean no pre-arrival form. Both things can be true at once, and the scam sites bank on travelers not knowing the difference.

Quick Facts — Curaçao DI Card 2026

Detail	Info
Who needs it	All air arrivals
Americans	Visa-free entry (up to 90 days); DI Card still required
Cost	Free
Official portal	dicardcuracao.com
Submission window	Within 7 days before scheduled arrival
Processing time	~5 minutes
Documented scam charges	$49.99–$156 per person
Known fake sites	curacaoedcard.com, curacaocardweb.com, curacaoimmigrationcard.us
Official support email	dicardsupport@curacao.com
CARICOM advisory	Yes — region-wide warning covering Caribbean member states

In one sentence: Curaçao’s DI Card is a free mandatory pre-arrival form at dicardcuracao.com — any site that charges for it is unauthorized, and the Curaçao government and curacao.com have both confirmed that the form carries no fee.

What Is the Curaçao DI Card?

The DI Card is Curaçao’s digital version of the paper immigration and customs form passengers used to fill out on the plane. Every person arriving by air is required to complete it before travel. The form collects your passport information, flight details, and your contact address in Curaçao. Once submitted at dicardcuracao.com, the portal generates a confirmation document. Airlines may check it at check-in; Curaçao immigration officers review it on arrival at Hato International Airport.

The window to complete it opens 7 days before your scheduled arrival. The government says to submit it within that window — not months ahead, not at the airport gate. The practical target is 24–72 hours before you fly, once your trip details are confirmed and stable.

This is the same model other Caribbean islands have deployed over the past few years: move paper immigration data collection online, earlier in the travel process. Barbados’ ED card, Sint Maarten’s ED card, Jamaica’s C5 form — all follow the same logic. All have the same problem: when a government creates a free mandatory form, someone will try to sell it.

Who Needs One

All air arrivals. The DI Card applies regardless of nationality or visa status. Americans traveling to Curaçao visa-free still complete it. Canadians, Europeans, everyone.

The 7-day window is firm. You can’t submit the form 10 days ahead and check it off your list. The portal enforces the window — within 7 days before your scheduled arrival. If you’re booking Curaçao for a group or family trip, each person submits separately. One form per traveler, including children.

Currently, the DI Card requirement covers air arrivals. Cruise passengers should check current entry requirements directly with the Curaçao government, as requirements for sea arrivals can differ from air requirements and are worth confirming before travel.

The Scam Sites

Here’s the mechanics of how travelers end up paying $49.99 to $156 for a free form.

You search “Curaçao DI Card” or “Curaçao digital immigration card” or “Curaçao entry form 2026.” The results page shows one or more sites that look official — government-style design, accurate terminology throughout, detailed explanations of the requirement. They get the form name right, they explain the 7-day window, they describe what information you’ll need. You work through the fields: passport number, date of birth, flight details, accommodation. Then a payment screen appears. A “processing fee” or “service charge” somewhere between $49.99 and $156 per person.

By that point you’ve already submitted your passport data to a site with no government accountability.

Documented sites running this operation include curacaoedcard.com, curacaocardweb.com (which charges $49.99), and curacaoimmigrationcard.us (which charges $68). Charges run as high as $156 per person. Some of these sites appear as Google sponsored results above the official dicardcuracao.com portal — they’re paying to intercept travelers before they reach the real form.

The curacao.com tourism FAQ addresses this directly: non-official websites “are not authorized by the government and may attempt to charge a fee for the Digital Immigration Card.” The warning is explicit. The form is free. If a site is charging, it isn’t the government.

Some of these operations do eventually submit your data on dicardcuracao.com after collecting payment — essentially charging you for five minutes of form-filling. Others may not. Either way, you’ve paid for something free and handed your passport data to an organization with no government oversight.

How Do I Actually Complete the Curaçao DI Card?

Go to dicardcuracao.com/dicard. Type the URL directly — don’t click the first search result, since sponsored fake sites appear above the official portal. The form is completely free at every step. If any screen shows a payment field or asks for a credit card, close the tab and start over at dicardcuracao.com typed directly into your browser.

How to complete the DI Card in 5 minutes

1. Navigate directly to dicardcuracao.com/dicard. Verify the URL in your browser address bar. No payment screen appears at any point on the official portal.

2. Enter your passport details. Full name exactly as it appears on your passport, passport number, nationality, date of birth, expiry date. Match your document precisely — discrepancies cause delays at check-in or immigration.

3. Enter your flight information. Airline, flight number, departure date, departure airport. If your itinerary has a connection, use the details for your final leg into Curaçao.

4. Enter your accommodation in Curaçao. Hotel name and address, or wherever you’re staying. If the details are uncertain, confirm them before submitting.

5. Submit. No payment. The portal generates a confirmation document. Email it to yourself and screenshot it — this is what your airline and Curaçao immigration will want to see.

On timing: submit within the 7-day window, but don’t wait until the airport. Complete it 24–72 hours before your flight once your trip details are locked. The confirmation arrives quickly, and you want it saved before you reach check-in.

Questions or issues: the official support email is dicardsupport@curacao.com.

The URL Is the Entire Verification

For Barbados, the tell is clean: .gov.bb is a government-controlled domain, and nothing else can register it. Curaçao’s situation is slightly different. The official DI Card portal is dicardcuracao.com — a .com domain operated by the government, not a country-code government domain like .gov.bb or .sx.

That makes the verification simpler in practice: the official portal URL is a specific, known address. dicardcuracao.com — that’s the one. Not curacaoedcard.com, not curacaocardweb.com, not curacaoimmigrationcard.us, not any variation. If you’re unsure, you can confirm by navigating from the official curacao.com tourism site, which links directly to dicardcuracao.com.

The signal is still the same across the entire pattern: the presence of a payment screen is the tell. The official dicardcuracao.com portal charges nothing. Any payment screen is proof you’re on the wrong site.

CARICOM’s Region-Wide Warning

This isn’t a Curaçao-specific problem. CARICOM IMPACS — the Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security — issued a regional advisory covering fraudulent electronic immigration forms across member states.

The advisory documents the broader pattern: fake portals mimicking government design, payment demands for free services, and data collection from travelers who believe they’re registering with a government system. CARICOM flagged both the financial loss and the identity data exposure risk — because submitting your passport number and date of birth to an unauthorized platform isn’t just a $68 mistake. It’s handing travel document data to an organization you know nothing about.

The same infrastructure problem runs through every form in this series. Jamaica’s free C5 has fake portals charging $30–$100 per person. Sint Maarten’s ED card, which draws nearly 1.6 million cruise passengers annually, has documented charges up to $139.99. Fake portals for the Dominican Republic’s eTicket charge $79. The form names differ. The scam structure is identical: smaller governments competing in search results against well-funded fake operations for their own immigration forms.

Curaçao draws around 450,000 stay-over visitors annually. Peak booking season runs now through late summer for winter travel. That’s when searches for Curaçao entry requirements spike, and that’s exactly when fake portals with paid search budgets have the largest audience to intercept.

If You Already Used a Third-Party Site

If you paid one of the unauthorized sites and received a confirmation document: complete the real form now at dicardcuracao.com anyway. Don’t travel on a document from an unauthorized portal — the Curaçao government has been clear that the free official form is the only legitimate one. An unofficial confirmation may look right and still fail when an immigration officer processes your arrival. That’s not a risk worth carrying when the fix is a free five-minute form.

If you paid and received nothing: dispute the charge with your card issuer. These sites typically have no real customer service. A card dispute is the practical path for recovering money.

Tell your travel companions if they’re still searching for the form. Send them the URL directly — dicardcuracao.com/dicard — rather than letting them run the same search and hit the same fake result.

Curaçao Is Worth Getting Right

None of this paperwork friction changes what Curaçao actually is. Willemstad’s pastel harbor row, the Handelskade, is one of the most photographed waterfronts in the Caribbean and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The diving is serious: the island drops off fast and the water is clear enough to make the visibility feel almost unreasonable. Playa Kalki on the western tip. The salt flats near Jan Kok, where flamingos stand in shallow water against a scraggly horizon. Karni restaurant for stewed chicken and funchi if you know where to eat.

Curaçao sits outside the hurricane belt, which means the shoulder and off-season months (April through June, September through November) are some of the more agreeable times to visit, weather-wise, without peak crowds. Americans booking summer travel are searching entry requirements right now. Some of them are hitting fake portals.

The DI Card takes five minutes and costs nothing. The friction is administrative, not logistical. Getting routed to a fake site is the only scenario where it actually becomes a problem.

The Bottom Line

Curaçao’s Digital Immigration Card — required for all air arrivals, submitted within 7 days before travel — is free at dicardcuracao.com. The Curaçao government and curacao.com have both publicly confirmed that non-official websites are charging for this form: documented charges range from $49.99 to $156 per person at sites including curacaoedcard.com, curacaocardweb.com, and curacaoimmigrationcard.us. None of them are the Curaçao government. None are authorized to charge for this form or collect your passport data.

CARICOM IMPACS issued a region-wide advisory covering the same fake-portal pattern across Caribbean member states. Curaçao is part of that pattern.

Go to dicardcuracao.com/dicard. Type it directly. Complete it 24–72 hours before your flight. Zero cost. That’s it.

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DI Card official portal: dicardcuracao.com. Official support: dicardsupport@curacao.com. Curacao.com DI Card FAQ: curacao.com. CARICOM IMPACS regional advisory: caricomimpacs.org. Information current as of June 2026 — verify entry requirements with the Curaçao government before travel.