ITIN for Venezuelans
The IRS keeps a page for Venezuela and lists nobody on it
Venezuela is named on the IRS's own index of countries with agents abroad, so it has a page like Colombia and Brazil have. Open it and this is the whole of it:
There is currently no agent listing for this country.
That matters because of how the sentence is worded. It is not an empty table we have interpreted, and it is not a 404 we have read something into. It is the issuer saying, in a maintained page with a review date, that the listing is empty. Most guides for this country simply do not mention it, which leaves a reader to search for a local agent that the IRS does not publish.
What that rules out, and what it does not
One sentence, so it is worth being precise about its edges. It says what the IRS lists. It does not say an ITIN is unavailable to you, it does not say anything about your eligibility, and it is not a statement about who is or is not operating in Venezuela. Listings also change, so it is true on a date, and the date is printed on the page.
What it does change is where you start. The IRS publishes that help is available with an approved agent in the United States and abroad, and it adds that fees for service may vary. Its country index names 68 places, Argentina through to the Virgin Islands, not in strict alphabetical order. If an agent is the route you want, the listing you need is somewhere other than Venezuela. When you get to one of those lists, read the footnote first: acceptance agents are marked on it with an asterisk, which is the IRS's name for one of its two agent types rather than a mark on all of them, and the marked and unmarked entries do different things with your documents. The acceptance agents guide covers that properly, and the Colombian listing shows what a populated one looks like.
The three routes that do not need a local agent
The W-7 instructions publish four ways to apply: by mail, by private delivery service, in person, and through an acceptance agent. Three of them never needed anyone listed in your country.
- By mail. Form W-7 with your return or exception documents and your supporting documentation, to Internal Revenue Service, ITIN Operation, P.O. Box 149342, Austin, TX 78714-9342. Originals travel.
- By private delivery service, and it is a different address. Internal Revenue Service, ITIN Operation, Mail Stop 6090-AUSC, 3651 S. Interregional, Hwy 35, Austin, TX 78741-0000. Not the same envelope with a different stamp: a courier cannot deliver to a post office box, which is why the IRS publishes the two separately.
- In person, at a designated IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center. Designated is doing real work in that sentence. Those offices verify original documentation and certified copies and return them immediately, but service is by appointment only, on 844-545-5640, and the IRS publishes that centres which do not offer the authentication service will mail your original documents, Form W-7 and the tax return to Austin for processing. The list of designated offices is at IRS.gov/W7DocumentVerification. We make no claim about what any of this costs, because the IRS publishes none.
On documents, the headline rule is about the document rather than your nationality. Submit an original valid passport, or a certified copy from the issuing agency, and you do not need to submit any other documents from the table of supporting documentation. That bound is the IRS's own, and it matters here because the passport is not a stand-alone document for certain dependants where no date of entry into the United States is present.
Certified in the IRS's sense means the original issuing agency provided and certified the copy with an official stamped seal, which is a different thing from a notarised photocopy. They add that you may be able to request a certified copy of documents at an embassy or consulate, which is the most useful line on this page for anyone without a listed agent to visit. The documents guide goes through the rest, and the no-travel route explains the done-for-you version.
One more thing the IRS states plainly, because it is the question underneath many others: resident aliens, nonresident aliens and their spouses or dependants can apply regardless of immigration status, where they need a US taxpayer number and are not eligible for a Social Security number. A spouse or dependant carries an extra published condition on top of that one: eligible only if they can be claimed for an allowable tax benefit, or they are filing their own return. The household guide works through it.
Venezuela is on the treaty list
Form W-7 has a reason box for people claiming a tax treaty benefit. On the IRS's alphabetical list of United States income tax treaties, read on 12 August 2026:
United Kingdom United States Model Uzbekistan V Venezuela W X Y Z
Named, where Colombia next door is not. That is a statement about a published list on a date and nothing more: whether that box is the right one for you, and what it would take to use it, is a question about your own position. It is also a neat illustration of why these pages are written one country at a time. Two neighbours, opposite answers on both of the facts that decide the route.
The Venezuelan side of the ledger
Everything above is the American side, and the silence on the other side is on purpose. First Class Citizen publish nothing about the Venezuelan side of the ledger, and general knowledge is not a source. A guess about your own country's rules is not something to put in front of you with their name on it.
What a US tax number does to anything you file at home is a real question, and it is answered by someone looking at your actual position. How we check what we do publish is set out in how we verify.
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FAQ
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Sources
The published pages this guide draws on, each read on the date shown.
No agent listed in the country. Still a route.
The empty listing rules out one starting move, not the number. The assessment call maps your position and names the route that fits it.
Book Your Assessment CallThis guide reports what the authorities and institutions involved publish, quoted, with the date each source was read. It is not tax, legal or immigration advice. Published rules change, and an individual case can turn on facts no page can see.
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