Market›CARICOM passport
Company Profile

CARICOM passport

There is no single "CARICOM passport"; each one of the 15 member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issues its own national passport independently to its citizens - though, since 2005, most of these national passports now bring the name "CARICOM" on the cover next to the country's name, similarly to what is also done by European Union members. They can be used both for intra-regional and international travel. Citizens of the OECS that are citizens from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines do not need to use any passport to travel from one of these countries to the other, as they may use a member-state issued drivers licence, national identification card, voters registration card or social security card for travel within the OECS area.

History
On Friday, 7 January 2005, the Republic of Suriname became the first full member state to officially launch the new bloc "CARICOM Passport". The new passports boast having better security and are also machine-readable. The full member states of the Caribbean Community had agreed to establish a common passport in order to make intra-regional and international travel easier for their citizens. The passports are also thought to save additional costs for member states by using a similar cover design, the designs will also follow newly updated international standards on passport design. The second state to release the national CARICOM passport was Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: SVG began issuing the new CARICOM passports around April 2005. On 25 October 2005, St. Kitts and Nevis became the third CARICOM member state to bring the CARICOM passport into operation, making good on its promise to launch it before the end of the year and began issuance of the document to its citizens on 14 November 2005. Antigua and Barbuda announced that it would begin using the new CARICOM passport format by the middle of 2005. St. Lucia proposed introducing the common passport in early 2007 and introduced it on 16 January 2007. Trinidad and Tobago announced that it would begin to issue the new CARICOM passport in June 2006, and then indicated that it would introduce the passport in July 2006 along with Guyana, but only introduced the passport on 24 January 2007. Guyana had also announced that it would begin to use the new CARICOM passport format by the middle of 2005, but the introduction was delayed and the new target date was set to July 2006. Jamaica was expected to institute the passport by the end of 2007; however, this deadline lapsed, and Jamaica was then expected to introduce the passport by January 2009, finally launching the passport on 2 January 2009. Belize was expected to introduce the passport by 31 December 2007 after its current stock was depleted, but ultimately Belize introduced the passport on 17 March 2009. In doing so Belize became the twelfth and last country in the CSM to introduce the passport and its introduction was the reason why Belizeans had been having trouble renewing or obtaining new passports as the Belizean Ministry of Immigration and National Security awaited the arrival of a shipment of the new travel documents. == The CARICOM Common Passport ==
The CARICOM Common Passport
As of early 2009, twelve Member States had introduced CARICOM passports. These states are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Montserrat is not expected to change the design of its passport because the island is a British overseas territory. == Passport ranking ==
Passport ranking
CARICOM Passport rankings by the number of countries and territories their holders could visit without a visa or by obtaining visa on arrival in 2023 were as follows: == See also ==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
tickerdossier.comtickerdossier.substack.com