# Venmo (فينمو)

> Venmo is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [PayPal](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/paypal.md)
- Categories: Payment Services, Digital Wallets, Money Transfer
- Official site: https://venmo.com
- Community votes: 32
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/venmo

## About

Social mobile payment app for sending money and splitting bills with friends

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. Community investigation in February 2026 noted that Venmo is a US-only peer-to-peer payment service owned by PayPal that requires a US bank account and does not operate internationally. The team named Venmo alongside PayPal in a corporate compliance follow-up to the company in March 2026; no resolution yet.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-31 — Follow-up Sent. Official follow-up email sent from corporateaffairs@unblocksyria.com to executiveoffice@paypal.com. Venmo was explicitly named alongside PayPal as a blocked PayPal-owned product. The email requested a single corporate-level compliance review.

## Community reports

- 2026-02-15 — Investigated. This is a complicated issue. Venmo is a US-only peer-to-peer payment service (owned by PayPal) that requires a US bank account. It does not operate internationally. Even without sanctions, Venmo would need to expand internationally and establish banking infrastructure in Syria, which depends on both PayPal's expansion plans and local financial infrastructure.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/venmo?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/venmo/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/venmo
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/venmo.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/venmo.md