Moving to Antigua and Barbuda Under the OECS or CARICOM
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Montserrat on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Montserrat to Antigua and Barbuda · Residency under a regional treaty
Three regional regimes are routinely run together and Antiguan law treats them as three. The OECS Protocol of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union is the strong one: section 21(1)(b) of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 entitles a citizen of a Protocol Member State to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time, and Schedule 1 Part C names seven of them. Ordinary OECS membership gets six months as of right under section 21(1)(a). CARICOM gets six months under section 22, from a Schedule that omits The Bahamas and Montserrat, and the skills regime that CARICOM's treaty actually created lives in a separate statute, the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act 1997. And the one thing none of them does in Antiguan law is lift the work permit: the Labour Code's exemption list, as we read it, does not reach an ordinary OECS or CARICOM national.
At a glance
- OECS Protocol: right conferred
- Enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time
Section 21(1)(b) of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014. It is an entitlement, subject only to revocation by the Chief Immigration Officer under the Act.
- OECS Protocol Member States in Schedule 1 Part C
- 7, including Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Six of them are origins for someone moving here.
- OECS member states in Schedule 1 Part B
- 6, and Montserrat is not among them
Part B omits Montserrat, which Part C then lists as a Protocol state. A Montserratian therefore has the stronger right and not the weaker one, which is the opposite of what the structure suggests.
- Ordinary OECS entry
- 6 months as of right
Section 21(1)(a).
- CARICOM entry
- 6 months
Section 22(1), for a national of a Member State of CARICOM.
- CARICOM states in Schedule 1 Part A
- 13, omitting The Bahamas and Montserrat
Both are full members of the Community. Read literally, a Bahamian national has no section 22 entitlement and enters as an ordinary visitor.
- Work permit for an OECS or CARICOM national
- Still required, on the Labour Code we read
Division F3 of the Labour Code, Cap. 27, exempts executives of CARICOM, the OECS, the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority and the Caribbean Development Bank, not their citizens. A 2011 amendment is reported to exempt CARICOM skilled nationals; we did not reach it.
- CARICOM free movement under the Treaty
- A goal, not an obligation of result
Article 45 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas states it as a goal; Article 46 takes a first step confined to named categories.
- EU service providers
- 90 days to 3 years, by category
Section 23 of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, implementing the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement. It is contingent on Regulations the Minister may make, which we did not find.
Requirements
- Under section 21(1)(b): citizenship of a Protocol Member State as listed in Schedule 1 Part C - Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Under section 21(1)(a): citizenship of a Member State of the OECS as listed in Schedule 1 Part B, which omits Montserrat
- Under section 22: nationality of a Member State of CARICOM as listed in Schedule 1 Part A, which names thirteen states and omits The Bahamas and Montserrat
- Under the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act 1997: a certificate of recognition of CARICOM skills qualification; since 2007 an artiste, musician, sportsperson or media worker is deemed to satisfy the qualification requirement
- Under all of them: a work permit under Division F of the Labour Code is still required unless the person falls in one of that Division's own exemptions
In detail
Three regimes, and which one you are in
Start from the passport. A citizen of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia or Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a citizen of an OECS Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C, and section 21(1)(b) entitles them to enter and remain with no limit on time at all. That is the whole of it: no permit application, no qualification, no job. A citizen of an OECS member state that is not a Protocol state would get six months under section 21(1)(a), but as Schedule 1 is drawn there is no such person - Part B is a subset of Part C. A national of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname or Trinidad and Tobago is in Schedule 1 Part A and gets six months under section 22. A national of The Bahamas is in no Part at all. And a CARICOM national of any of the five Treaty categories may separately hold a certificate under the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act 1997, which is a different statute with its own entry provisions.
What CARICOM confers, and what it does not
CARICOM is persistently described as giving free movement. The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas does not. Article 45 states free movement as a goal to which member states commit themselves. Article 46 then takes a first step by according five named categories of Community national the right to seek employment. Antigua and Barbuda enacted that first step as the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act, No. 3 of 1997, and amended it in 2007 to deem an artiste, musician, sportsperson or media worker qualified on experience rather than on paper. What section 22 of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 adds on top is six months of entry for any CARICOM national from a Schedule 1 Part A state, qualified or not. That is more than the Treaty requires and a great deal less than free movement. A separate Protocol on full free movement has been reported to be in operation among a small group of states since 2026; we found nothing in Antiguan law implementing it, and this record does not say what it does or does not do.
The work permit nobody lifts
This is where Antigua and Barbuda diverges most sharply from its nearest neighbour. In Saint Kitts and Nevis, section 19(1) of the Immigration Act expressly exempts a citizen of a Protocol Member State and an approved CARICOM citizen from the work permit requirement, in the immigration statute itself. In Antigua and Barbuda, section 21 confers entry and stay and says nothing whatever about employment, and the work permit requirement lives in Division F of the Labour Code, whose exemption list in the Revised Edition covers citizens, government employees, armed forces, diplomats, United Nations staff and persons employed in an executive capacity by CARICOM, the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority, the Caribbean Development Bank or the OECS. A Grenadian shopkeeper is in none of those classes. The OECS Commission states flatly that a Protocol citizen may work in any Protocol Member State without a work permit; on the Antiguan instruments we read, nothing says so. A Labour Code amendment of 2011 is reported to have exempted CARICOM skilled nationals, and we could not reach it.
Two Schedules that do not match the blocs
Schedule 1 Part A names thirteen CARICOM member states. The Community has fifteen full members; the two missing are The Bahamas and Montserrat. Schedule 1 Part B names six OECS member states and omits Montserrat, which is then listed in Part C among the Protocol states - so the Act treats a Montserratian as having the stronger right while denying them the weaker one. Schedule 4 Part A, the CARIFORUM list for the EU services provisions, is a third list again: it has thirteen entries including the Dominican Republic, which is in CARIFORUM and not in CARICOM, and it spells it "Dominican Rebuplic". Section 80 of the Act lets the Minister amend Schedules 1 and 2 by Order; we found no such Order.
Country-level policy
The government's laws site carries a Revised Edition whose chapters were revised to 1992, and a separate collection of Acts and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition is where search engines land, and for immigration it is wrong: it still presents the Immigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208, as the law, although section 87(1) of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 repealed it outright. There is no consolidated edition of the 2014 Act carrying its 2015, 2021 and 2023 amendments, so the rules in force exist only as an Act plus three amending Acts applied by hand. The same shape repeats for citizenship by investment, where the current Regulations are a Schedule inside an amending Act and six Statutory Instruments have been applied to them since.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Montserrat
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«a Protocol Member State lawfully landing in Antigua and Barbuda from any place
outside Antigua and Barbuda is entitled to enter and remain in Antigua and Barbuda,
without any restriction or limitation as to time,»Quoted with the double space the publisher's text carries after "landing". The right is an entitlement of the citizen, not a permission granted by an officer.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«a Member State of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States lawfully landing in
Antigua and Barbuda from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, is entitled to enter
and remain in Antigua and Barbuda for a period of 6 months; and»About this source
The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«(i) Antigua and Barbuda
(ii) Commonwealth of Dominica
(iii) Grenada
(iv) Montserrat
(v) St. Kitts and Nevis
(vi) Saint Lucia
(vii) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines»The Protocol Member States. Unlike the Kittitian Immigration Act, which defines the class by reference to the Protocol itself and leaves the membership to be looked up, Antigua names them in the statute - so an accession or a withdrawal needs an Order under section 80 before it has effect here.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«(i) Antigua and Barbuda
(ii) Commonwealth of Dominica
(iii) Grenada
(vi) Saint Lucia
(v) St. Kitts and Nevis
(vii) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines»Quoted with the printer's numbering, which runs (i), (ii), (iii), (vi), (v), (vii) and has no (iv). Montserrat, an OECS member state, is absent from Part B and present in Part C.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«(ii) Barbados
(iii) Belize
(iv) Commonwealth of Dominica
(v) Grenada
(vi) Guyana
(vii) Haiti
(viii) Jamaica
(ix) St. Kitts and Nevis
(x) Saint Lucia
(xi) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(xii) Suriname
(xiii) Trinidad and Tobago»Quoted from (ii) because entry (i), Antigua and Barbuda, sits on the previous page of the official print and a page header falls between them. Thirteen entries in all; The Bahamas and Montserrat, both full members of the Community, do not appear.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«A national of a Member State of CARICOM landing in Antigua and Barbuda from any place
outside Antigua and Barbuda is entitled to enter and remain in Antigua and Barbuda for a period of 6 months unless such permission to remain in Antigua and Barbuda is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with this Act and the Regulations.»Six months on arrival, nothing about work and nothing about staying longer. Section 22(3) defines "national" as a natural person who is a citizen of the member state.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«Subject to subsection (3) and sections 17 and 18, the Minister may, by Regulations, provide
for an EU service provider of an EU Member State who lands in Antigua and Barbuda from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain in Antigua and Barbuda for a period set out in subsection (2).»The whole EU services right is contingent on Regulations the Minister "may" make. We found none, so what section 23 confers today is a power rather than a right.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«(v) Dominican Rebuplic»Quoted with the official print's misspelling. Schedule 4 Part A lists the CARIFORUM member states, which is the grouping on the Caribbean side of the Economic Partnership Agreement and is not the same list as Schedule 1 Part A: it includes the Dominican Republic and excludes Montserrat.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«Notwithstanding sections 8 and 9, an applicant who is a citizen of a qualifying Caribbean Community state and possesses any qualification or experience or combination of qualification and
experience that is to the satisfaction of the Minister proves that the applicant is—»The four paragraphs that follow are an artiste, a musician, a sports person and a media worker, each deemed to have satisfied the qualification requirements. These are four of the five categories Article 46 of the Revised Treaty names; university graduates are dealt with by section 8 of the principal Act, which we did not reach.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«Notwithstanding sections 4 and 5, no person shall be permitted to enter Antigua and Barbuda—»The bars that follow are a deportation order, a contagious or infectious disease, and an Order of the Cabinet under section 8 of the Immigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208 - a reference the 2014 Act's repeal of Cap. 208 left dangling.
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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«Member States commit themselves to the goal of free movement of their nationals within the Community.»A goal, not an obligation of result. CARICOM has never conferred general free movement, and that is the single most common misstatement made about it.
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Depositary and publisher of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the single market material built on it.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what a member state's law actually is. The treaty binds states rather than conferring rights a reader can exercise at a counter, and its establishment articles have no implementing provision in at least one member we have read. Our capture of the treaty also has irregular article headings, so no negative claim about its contents may rest on it.
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«accord to the following categories of Community nationals the right to seek employment in their jurisdictions:»Quoted with the double space the publisher's text carries. The categories that follow are university graduates, media workers, sportspersons, artistes and musicians - the first step towards the Article 45 goal, and the step Antigua and Barbuda enacted in 1997.
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Depositary and publisher of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the single market material built on it.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what a member state's law actually is. The treaty binds states rather than conferring rights a reader can exercise at a counter, and its establishment articles have no implementing provision in at least one member we have read. Our capture of the treaty also has irregular article headings, so no negative claim about its contents may rest on it.
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«No Work Permit: Citizens of Protocol Member States and their third-country spouse can work in any Protocol Member State without obtaining a work permit.»A statement by the Commission about the regime it administers, not a provision of Antiguan law. The Immigration and Passport Act 2014 says nothing about work permits for Protocol citizens and the Labour Code's Division F3, as we read it, does not exempt them. The two do not agree, and this record says so rather than choosing.
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Administers the Eastern Caribbean economic union and its free-movement regime, and describes what member states have agreed to implement.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for any member's law. Where we have checked, only a handful of its claims are mirrored in a national statute: its statements about identity-card travel, driving-licence recognition, social-security portability and third-country spouses had no implementing provision we could find, and must be attributed to the Commission rather than to a country. A programme it describes as being implemented is not in force by virtue of being described.
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«Indefinite Stay: Citizens of Protocol Member States and their family members (spouse and dependents) can live in any Protocol Member State indefinitely receiving an indefinite stay stamp upon arrival at the immigration desks»Here the Commission and the Act agree. Section 21(1)(b) is the Antiguan provision that delivers it.
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Administers the Eastern Caribbean economic union and its free-movement regime, and describes what member states have agreed to implement.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for any member's law. Where we have checked, only a handful of its claims are mirrored in a national statute: its statements about identity-card travel, driving-licence recognition, social-security portability and third-country spouses had no implementing provision we could find, and must be attributed to the Commission rather than to a country. A programme it describes as being implemented is not in force by virtue of being described.
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Practical notes
The membership lists used here are the Act's own Schedules and not the blocs' membership. Where the two differ the Act governs what happens at an Antiguan counter, and the differences are set out above rather than smoothed over.
No claim is made here about the CARICOM Protocol on Enhanced Cooperation for full free movement that came into effect in 2026 among a group of member states. We looked for an Antiguan instrument giving it effect and found none; absence of an implementing instrument is not proof that Antigua and Barbuda is outside the Protocol, and this record states neither.
The Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act, No. 3 of 1997, was not reached. Everything stated about it here comes from the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 2007, which quotes the sections it amends. The periods of stay a certificate holder gets, the list of qualifying Caribbean Community states and the categories in section 8 of the principal Act are therefore not stated on this record.
The 2007 amendment to the Skilled Nationals Act refers in its new section 5A to "section 8 of the Immigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208". Cap. 208 was repealed in 2014 and its section 8 was the Cabinet's power to declare a person an undesirable inhabitant. The 2014 Act's nearest equivalent is section 19. Nothing we read updates the cross-reference.
Section 23 of the 2014 Act gives EU service providers nothing by itself: it empowers the Minister to make Regulations and sets the maximum periods those Regulations may allow. We found no such Regulations, and the right is also subject to a reciprocity condition in section 23(3)(b). This is recorded as a power, not as an entitlement.
The OECS Commission's statements about identity-card travel, mutual recognition of driving licences, portability of social security and contingent rights are the Commission's, about the regime it administers. Where the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 says the same thing - the indefinite stay - the two agree. Where it is silent, the Commission's statement is recorded as the Commission's and not as Antiguan law.
- consolidatesImmigration and Passport Act, 2014, No. 6 of 2014
Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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- consolidatesCaribbean Community Skilled Nationals (Amendment) Act, 2007, No. 22 of 2007
Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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- consolidatesAntigua and Barbuda Labour Code, Cap. 27, Revised Edition of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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- issuesRevised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy
Caribbean Community Secretariat
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Depositary and publisher of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the single market material built on it.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what a member state's law actually is. The treaty binds states rather than conferring rights a reader can exercise at a counter, and its establishment articles have no implementing provision in at least one member we have read. Our capture of the treaty also has irregular article headings, so no negative claim about its contents may rest on it.
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- administersFree Movement of Persons Regime in the Eastern Caribbean
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission
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Administers the Eastern Caribbean economic union and its free-movement regime, and describes what member states have agreed to implement.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for any member's law. Where we have checked, only a handful of its claims are mirrored in a national statute: its statements about identity-card travel, driving-licence recognition, social-security portability and third-country spouses had no implementing provision we could find, and must be attributed to the Commission rather than to a country. A programme it describes as being implemented is not in force by virtue of being described.
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