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Special Caribbean CARICOM Visa

In reference to your upcoming trip to the Caribbean, we are writing to make you aware that as part of the security arrangements for the cricket world cup, the CARICOM group of countries in the Caribbean have introduced a special visa.

From 1 February 2007 to 15 May 2007, everyone visiting Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago will require the Special CARICOM Visa. However, nationals of the following countries and their dependent territories DO NOT require the visa:

United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Netherlands and the United States.
Visas are also not required by CARICOM nationals (except Haiti) and any other nationals who already have a form of status conferred prior to 1 February 2007 by any of the immigration authorities of the 10 Caribbean countries above and which is valid until at least 15th May 2007.

Please make sure that you visit the website at www.caricom.org and click on ‘CARICOM Special Visa’ to ensure that you have the relevant visa if required.

Notice regarding the use of personal details of passengers traveling to the Caribbean

Specifically:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands. Collectively members or associate members of ‘CARICOM’.

Please note that some or all of the above CARICOM states will enter into an agreement with the USA whereby advance passenger data, required by and provided to CARICOM states for border security purposes, will be passed to the USA Department for Homeland Security for processing on behalf of those CARICOM states.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has accepted that this will not breach the Data Protection Act but that we are required to bring this to your attention.