Entering Antigua and Barbuda as a Visitor
Six months, and it is the statute that says so rather than an officer. The Immigration and Passport Act 2014 defines a bona fide visitor as a person arriving for a period of not more than six months, and section 24 requires the visitor to hold an onward ticket, to take no gainful occupation, to behave and to be able to maintain themselves and their dependants throughout. Beyond that the Act splits travellers into classes: a citizen of any member state of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States gets six months as of right, a citizen of an OECS Protocol state enters with no limit on time at all, a national of a CARICOM member state named in Schedule 1 gets six months, and an EU service provider gets a period that depends on what kind of service provider they are. An extension is a separate application to the Chief Immigration Officer, and since 2023 a visitor who intends to stay on for work, study, marriage or retirement must formally change status instead.
At a glance
- Maximum stay as a visitor
- 6 months
Section 24(1) of the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 caps the entry permit, and section 2 defines a bona fide visitor by the same period. The repealed Immigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208 used the same six months in its section 20(1)(b).
- Extension of time
- Up to 90 days
Section 38(3)(a). A longer extension exists only on the separate footings in section 38(4), which reach a homeowner or a retiree and run to 24 months without the right to work.
- Entry for a citizen of an OECS member state
- 6 months as of right
Section 21(1)(a). Schedule 1 Part B lists six OECS member states and omits Montserrat, which Part C then lists as a Protocol Member State.
- Entry for a citizen of an OECS Protocol state
- No limit as to time
Section 21(1)(b).
- Entry for a CARICOM national
- 6 months
Section 22(1), for a national of a Member State of CARICOM as listed in Schedule 1 Part A.
- Entry for an EU business visitor
- 90 days in any twelve-month period
Section 23(2)(a), under the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement. The period is 6 months for a contractual services supplier, 12 months for a graduate trainee and 3 years for an intra-corporate transfer.
- Change of status fee
- XCD 1,500 for CS-1 or CS-2
Schedule 7 to the Act, inserted by the Immigration and Passport (Amendment) Act 2023. The Schedule does not say what CS-1, CS-2 and CS-3 stand for.
Requirements
- A passport or other valid travel document, and an entry permit unless the traveller falls in one of the Act's exempt classes
- An onward ticket or other means of travelling to a country the visitor can enter
- No gainful occupation during the stay, and the means to maintain yourself and any dependants who are here
- A stay within the six months the entry permit may not exceed; an extension is applied for before the permit expires
- Since 2023, a visitor who intends to remain for work, study, marriage to a national or retirement must apply for a change of status rather than simply extend
How the process runs
- Step 1
Arrive with a travel document and satisfy the officer you are a visitor
Port of entry
Section 11 requires a travel document and section 13 an entry permit, unless the traveller is in one of the classes the Act exempts. The officer decides whether the conditions in section 24(1) are met.
- Step 2
Keep within the permit
Antigua and Barbuda
The entry permit may not exceed six months, and the conditions in section 24(1) must hold throughout, not merely on arrival.
- Step 3
Apply before the permit expires if you want longer
Department of Immigration
Section 38 requires the application in the prescribed form and, unless the Chief Immigration Officer directs otherwise in writing, attendance in person. The ordinary extension is up to 90 days.
- Step 4
Change status rather than extend if you mean to stay
Department of Immigration
Section 70A, inserted in 2023, requires a bona fide visitor who intends to reside here for work, study, marriage or retirement to apply for a change of status. The fee is set by Schedule 7.
In detail
Which Act you are reading matters more here than anywhere else
The Immigration and Passport Act, 2014, No. 6 of 2014, repealed the Immigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208 outright. Cap. 208 is nevertheless still published as a chapter of the Revised Edition on the government's own laws site, with nothing on its face to say it is dead, and it is the version that search engines surface first. The two Acts agree on the headline - six months for a visitor - and diverge on nearly everything else: Cap. 208 has no OECS provision, no CARICOM provision, no EU services provision, no student permit, no residence permit, no permanent residence permit and no appeals tribunal. Anyone answering a question about Antiguan immigration from Cap. 208 will be answering about a country that stopped existing in law in 2014.
Six classes of traveller, not one
Part III of the 2014 Act sorts arrivals rather than treating them alike. Division 1 sets the general requirements - travel document, visa where required, entry permit, and the prohibited-immigrant classes in Schedule 5. Division 2 then carves out four groups and gives each a different period: a citizen of an OECS member state, six months; a citizen of an OECS Protocol member state, no limit as to time; a national of a CARICOM member state, six months; an EU service provider, between 90 days and three years depending on which kind. The ordinary bona fide visitor in section 24 is what is left over. The practical consequence is that the answer to "how long can I stay" depends first on your nationality and only second on your purpose.
An Act whose commencement we could not find
Section 1(2) of the 2014 Act says the Minister may appoint a day on which it comes into force, and may appoint different days for different provisions. We did not find the commencement notice. What we did find is that Parliament has amended the 2014 Act four times since - in 2015, 2021 and twice in content in 2023 - and that the 2023 amendment's Schedule 7 refers to "an applicant in possession of a residence permit at the date of commencement of this Amendment", which only makes sense if residence permits are being issued under the Act. The record treats the 2014 Act as the law in force and says plainly that the commencement instrument is not among the documents we read.
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.
Exceptions by origin
Entry from Dominica: no limit as to time
A citizen of Dominica is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "Commonwealth of Dominica". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Dominica, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Grenada: no limit as to time
A citizen of Grenada is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "Grenada". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Grenada, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Montserrat: no limit as to time
A citizen of Montserrat is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "Montserrat". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Montserrat, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Saint Kitts and Nevis: no limit as to time
A citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "St. Kitts and Nevis". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Saint Kitts and Nevis, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Saint Lucia: no limit as to time
A citizen of Saint Lucia is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "Saint Lucia". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Saint Lucia, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: no limit as to time
A citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a citizen of a Protocol Member State under Schedule 1 Part C to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014, where the Act names it "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines". Section 21(1)(b) entitles such a person, lawfully landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time. The six-month ceiling that governs an ordinary visitor does not apply, and neither does the bona fide visitor's condition against taking gainful occupation - section 24 is a different provision and does not reach a person admitted under section 21. The entitlement can be revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer in accordance with the Act, and section 21(2) lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction and likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
- Citizenship of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which Schedule 1 Part C lists as a Protocol Member State
- Lawful landing from a place outside Antigua and Barbuda
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 21(2)
Entry from Barbados: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Barbados is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Barbados, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Belize: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Belize is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Belize, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Guyana: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Guyana is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Guyana, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Haiti: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Haiti is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Haiti, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Jamaica: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Jamaica is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Jamaica, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Suriname: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Suriname is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Suriname, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
Entry from Trinidad and Tobago: six months as an entitlement, not a permission
Trinidad and Tobago is named in Schedule 1 Part A to the Immigration and Passport Act 2014 as a Member State of CARICOM. Section 22(1) entitles its nationals, landing here from any place outside Antigua and Barbuda, to enter and remain for a period of six months, unless the permission is revoked by the Chief Immigration Officer. The period is the same six months an ordinary visitor may be given, and the difference is in how it arises: an ordinary visitor holds an entry permit which "shall not exceed 6 months" and whose conditions must hold throughout, while a CARICOM national is entitled to the period by statute. Section 22(2) nevertheless lets an officer refuse entry on grounds including a serious criminal conviction, likelihood of becoming a charge on the Consolidated Fund, and falling within the prohibited classes in Schedule 5.
- Nationality of Trinidad and Tobago, which Schedule 1 Part A lists as a Member State of CARICOM
- Not falling within the refusal grounds in section 22(2) or the prohibited classes in Schedule 5
What the law says
«“bona fide visitor” means a person arriving in Antigua and Barbuda for a period
of not more than 6 months, or having been granted an extension;»The 2014 Act as enacted defined a bona fide visitor by a list of purposes the arrival was not for. The 2023 substitution reduces it to the period plus any extension granted.
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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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«shall be deemed to be a bona fide visitor to Antigua and Barbuda for the purposes of this Act if, at the time of his or her arrival and throughout the period during which the person is permitted to remain in Antigua and Barbuda under the entry permit which shall not exceed 6 months, the person—»The six months is a cap on the entry permit, not a guarantee. The conditions in paragraphs (a) to (d) must hold throughout, and section 24(3) says a visitor who breaks one of them is deemed to have entered without a permit.
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«the person is able to maintain himself or herself and any of his or her dependants who are in Antigua and Barbuda.»About this source
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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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«an extension of time not exceeding 90 days to remain in Antigua and Barbuda;»The ordinary extension. Section 38(3)(b) and (c) give instead a period stipulated in a work permit or the length of a course of study.
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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»Quoted with the double space the publisher's text carries after "the".
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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 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,»The strongest entry right in the Act. See the regional-treaty record for who the Protocol states are.
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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.»About this source
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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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«in the case of a business services seller, a business visitor or a short-term visitor for business purposes, in aggregate, not exceed 90 days in any twelve-month period;»Section 23(1) makes this contingent on Regulations the Minister may make, and section 23(3)(b) withholds it where the EU member state does not treat an Antiguan service supplier reciprocally. We found no such Regulations.
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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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«A bona fide visitor who intends to lawfully ordinarily reside in Antigua and Barbuda for the
purposes of—»The paragraphs that follow are work, education, marriage to an Antiguan and Barbudan national and, printed after the operative words rather than before them, a retiree.
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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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«The application fee for a CS-1 or a CS-2 is $1500 XCD, and a CS-3 1 – 4 yrs. is $750 XCD; and a CS-3 5– 7 yrs. is
$300 XCD and is nonrefundable.»Schedule 7 is the only place these fees appear, and the Schedule as printed by the Government Printing Office breaks off mid-sentence - see the practical notes.
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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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«his stay in Antigua and Barbuda is limited to
six months;»The superseded rule, kept because the Law Commission still publishes Cap. 208 in the Revised Edition without saying it has been repealed. The period is the same, which is why the error is hard to see.
Practical notes
Schedule 7 to the 2014 Act, inserted by the 2023 amendment, ends mid-sentence in the official print: the last words before the enacting formula are "An applicant in possession of a residence permit at the date of commencement of this Amendment and who". This is not an extraction fault. We confirmed it against the text layer of the Government Printing Office's own PDF as well as against the stored reading. Whatever that sentence was going to say about existing permit holders is not in the published Act.
The Act's categories CS-1, CS-2 and CS-3 in Schedule 7 are never defined. The Schedule charges different fees for each and sets accumulated-time bands for CS-3, but nothing in the Act or in the 2023 amendment says which of work, study, marriage and retirement corresponds to which code.
The 2014 Act's Schedule 1 Part A names thirteen CARICOM member states and does not include The Bahamas or Montserrat, both full members of the Community. Read literally, a Bahamian national has no entitlement under section 22 and enters as an ordinary visitor. We did not find an amendment to Schedule 1, and section 80 of the Act lets the Minister amend Schedules 1 and 2 by Order.
We did not find a visa-exemption list. Section 12 of the 2014 Act requires a visa where one is prescribed, and the only visa instrument we reached was the Immigration and Passport (Cyprus, Czech Republic, ...) Order, Statutory Instrument No. 41 of 2008, which predates the Act. This record states no visa-free list and nothing here should be read as one.
The 2014 Act's section numbering was checked for gaps against its own arrangement of sections: sections 1 to 87 are all present, with 24A inserted by Act 2 of 2015, 42A by Act 20 of 2021 and 70A by Act 9 of 2023. The negative statements in this record about what Cap. 208 does not contain rest on a reading of that Act in full, sections 1 to 41.
- consolidatesImmigration and Passport Act, 2014, No. 6 of 2014, as published in the Official Gazette Vol. XXXIV No. 41 of 19 June 2014
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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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- consolidatesImmigration and Passport (Amendment) Act, 2023, No. 9 of 2023
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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- consolidatesImmigration and Passport Act, Cap. 208, Revised Edition of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
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.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source