Entering Barbados as a Visitor
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize 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 Belize to Barbados · Visiting as a tourist
Barbados sorts arrivals into two lists in the Second Schedule to the Immigration Act. A visitor belongs to Part II, with passengers in transit and people entering for medical treatment, and an immigration officer may permit any period up to six months on whatever conditions the officer thinks fit. Part I is the longer-stay list - students, people entering for employment, trade or business, diplomats and anyone else the Minister approves - and there the ceiling is three years. Extending a permit is not a renewal at a counter: the holder applies to the Chief Immigration Officer in the prescribed form and may be made to report in person and submit to an examination under the Act even though they are already in Barbados. Whether a visa is needed first is set out in one table published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs covering every country, and the fee is charged in United States dollars.
At a glance
- Longest period a visitor may be given
- 6 months
- Longest period for a student or someone entering for a purpose the Minister approves
- 3 years in the first instance
- Entry visa, single entry
- US$107.00
Charged by the Immigration Department in United States dollars. The Immigration (Forms and Fees) Regulations prescribe BDS$200 on application for a non-immigrant visa, which is not the same figure in either currency or amount.
- Entry visa, multiple entry
- US$211.00
Permission to make numerous entries within a six-month period, as the Department states it.
- Visa processing time the Department states
- THREE (3) WEEKS
Stated in capitals on the Department's visa requirements page, which adds that updates are not given on the progress of applications.
- Date of the visa table the Ministry publishes
- Revised in 2022
- Yellow fever certificate
- Required for travellers over one year of age coming from infected areas
Stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its visitor page; we did not read the public health instrument behind it.
Requirements
- A passport valid for the duration of the stay in Barbados
- An entry visa first, if your nationality appears in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs table as requiring one - the visa is a prerequisite to seeking entry and does not guarantee it
- For a visa: the application form, a photograph, copies of the passport cover and biometric page, birth and marriage certificates where applicable, a cover letter to the Chief Immigration Officer stating the purpose, proposed date of entry and duration, and a banker's draft for the fee
- To extend a stay: an application to the Chief Immigration Officer in the prescribed form, and a readiness to report in person for examination
In detail
Six months is a ceiling, and the period is the officer's to choose
Nothing in the Act entitles a visitor to any particular stay. Section 13(1) says an immigration officer may permit a person in Part II of the Second Schedule to enter on such conditions as that officer thinks fit, for such period not exceeding six months as the officer considers appropriate in the particular case. Six months is the outer limit on what may be granted at the border, and the officer may grant less. Section 13(2) then requires a written permit, which may itself carry a condition that the holder register with an immigration officer, and section 13(5) lets the Minister vary or revoke a permit at any time.
Extending is an examination, not a renewal
Section 13(3) says the holder of a permit who wants longer, or wants the conditions changed, applies to the Chief Immigration Officer in the prescribed form and may be required to report in person and submit to an examination under the Act notwithstanding that he is already in Barbados. Section 13(4) adds that the Chief Immigration Officer may extend only with the approval of the Minister. Overstaying is not a fine: section 13(6) lets the Minister make a deportation order against a person who remains after the permit expires, and section 13(8) lets the Chief Immigration Officer detain them while it is made.
The visa list exists and is complete
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade publishes a single table covering every country in the world, with three columns: whether a Barbadian needs a visa to go there, whether a national of that country needs one to come here, and remarks that usually give the length of stay allowed. Australians, for example, are recorded as able to stay for a maximum of six months without a visa. The table carries its own date at the foot - the Consular Section, August 05, 2022 (Revised) - and nothing on it says whether it has been checked since. That is more than any other Caribbean country in this comparison publishes, and the date is the thing to watch.
Country-level policy
Barbados publishes its law in three places that do not agree with each other about how current it is, and none of them says so on its face. The Supreme Court's statute library carries the Chapters, printed by the Government Printer, with a Law Revision Order year in the running head of each page - 2007 on the newest pages of the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act, 1997 on the Income Tax pages that carry the residence and domicile rules. The Attorney General's Office carries annual Acts and statutory instruments, and its series of annual Acts stops at 2020. The Government Printing Department publishes the Official Gazette, which is where an Act of 2021 or later is actually found. A reader looking for the law in force has to use all three, and an amendment made between 2021 and today is invisible in the first two.
On 21 April 2026 the Government laid the Immigration Bill, 2026 and the Barbados Citizenship Bill, 2026. The Immigration Bill would repeal Chapter 190 outright and replace it: a points test for permanent residence, an express route for the spouse of a citizen and for a retired person with sufficient financial resources, a right for a direct descendant of a citizen to be registered as a permanent resident, automated passport control kiosks, advance passenger information shared with intelligence agencies, and a lengthening of the long-stay permit from three years to five. Both Bills were still before the House of Assembly when this was written and neither has commenced. Nothing in this record is law. It is here because the Act they would replace is the Act every other Barbados record rests on, and because what the Bills do not contain is itself a finding: neither of them implements the 2025 free movement arrangement.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Belize
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 person described in Part II of that Schedule to enter and remain in Barbados on such conditions as that officer thinks fit and for such period not exceeding 6 months as that officer considers appropriate in the particular case.»Known to be out of date. The Act's own list of amending Acts runs to 2008-6, one year past the latest Law Revision Order year printed on its pages, and section 17(1) was replaced in 2020. The Immigration Bill, 2026 would repeal the whole Act and raise this ceiling to five years; it had not been passed when this was written.
Six months is the officer's maximum, not an entitlement. Paragraph (a) of the same subsection covers the Part I list and caps it at three years in the first instance.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The statute library of the Barbadian judiciary, publishing the Chapters of the Laws of Barbados and the subsidiary legislation as PDFs printed by the Government Printer. It is the only place the consolidated Chapters are published as a browsable set, and it carries the Constitution, the Immigration Act Chapter 190, the Income Tax Act Chapter 73, the Customs Act Chapter 66, the Exchange Control Act Chapter 71 and the Caribbean Community Acts.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates and does not issue, and its editions are old and dated per page rather than per Act: the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act print Law Revision Order years of 2007 on their newest pages and 1997 or 2002 on others, and no page says what the Act looks like today. It must not be cited for anything amended after about 2008 without checking the amending Act - section 17(1) of the Immigration Act was substituted in 2020 and this edition does not show it. Several of its files are scans with no text layer: the Barbados Citizenship Act Chapter 186 is unreadable and the Road Traffic Act Chapter 295 is largely so, and neither may be quoted from this publisher. Extraction of the Immigration Act PDF silently loses four pairs of pages, so an absence in it is not evidence of absence in the Act. It must also not be relied on for completeness, and the gap is the publisher's rather than ours: its Immigration Act lists sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30 and 31 in its own arrangement of sections and prints none of them. Two independent extractions of the file agree, every page but the last carries a text layer, and the headings Charging of member of crew, Persons unlawfully entering, Applications for work permits and Deportation orders each appear exactly once, in the contents. A negative claim read off this Chapter - that the Act says nothing about something - can be neither trusted nor disproved from it.
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«remain in Barbados on such conditions and for such period, not exceeding, in the case of a person described in paragraph 2 or 4 of that Part of that Schedule, 3 years, as that officer considers appropriate in the particular case;»Paragraph 2 of Part I is students and paragraph 4 is persons entering for other purposes approved by the Minister. Paragraph 3, persons entering for employment, trade or business, is not inside the three-year cap at all, so the period for them is whatever the officer considers appropriate.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The statute library of the Barbadian judiciary, publishing the Chapters of the Laws of Barbados and the subsidiary legislation as PDFs printed by the Government Printer. It is the only place the consolidated Chapters are published as a browsable set, and it carries the Constitution, the Immigration Act Chapter 190, the Income Tax Act Chapter 73, the Customs Act Chapter 66, the Exchange Control Act Chapter 71 and the Caribbean Community Acts.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates and does not issue, and its editions are old and dated per page rather than per Act: the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act print Law Revision Order years of 2007 on their newest pages and 1997 or 2002 on others, and no page says what the Act looks like today. It must not be cited for anything amended after about 2008 without checking the amending Act - section 17(1) of the Immigration Act was substituted in 2020 and this edition does not show it. Several of its files are scans with no text layer: the Barbados Citizenship Act Chapter 186 is unreadable and the Road Traffic Act Chapter 295 is largely so, and neither may be quoted from this publisher. Extraction of the Immigration Act PDF silently loses four pairs of pages, so an absence in it is not evidence of absence in the Act. It must also not be relied on for completeness, and the gap is the publisher's rather than ours: its Immigration Act lists sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30 and 31 in its own arrangement of sections and prints none of them. Two independent extractions of the file agree, every page but the last carries a text layer, and the headings Charging of member of crew, Persons unlawfully entering, Applications for work permits and Deportation orders each appear exactly once, in the contents. A negative claim read off this Chapter - that the Act says nothing about something - can be neither trusted nor disproved from it.
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«PART II
1. Passengers in transit through Barbados.
2. Visitors.
3. Persons entering Barbados for medical treatment.»The whole of Part II. A visitor is one of three categories, and the Act does not define the word.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The statute library of the Barbadian judiciary, publishing the Chapters of the Laws of Barbados and the subsidiary legislation as PDFs printed by the Government Printer. It is the only place the consolidated Chapters are published as a browsable set, and it carries the Constitution, the Immigration Act Chapter 190, the Income Tax Act Chapter 73, the Customs Act Chapter 66, the Exchange Control Act Chapter 71 and the Caribbean Community Acts.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates and does not issue, and its editions are old and dated per page rather than per Act: the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act print Law Revision Order years of 2007 on their newest pages and 1997 or 2002 on others, and no page says what the Act looks like today. It must not be cited for anything amended after about 2008 without checking the amending Act - section 17(1) of the Immigration Act was substituted in 2020 and this edition does not show it. Several of its files are scans with no text layer: the Barbados Citizenship Act Chapter 186 is unreadable and the Road Traffic Act Chapter 295 is largely so, and neither may be quoted from this publisher. Extraction of the Immigration Act PDF silently loses four pairs of pages, so an absence in it is not evidence of absence in the Act. It must also not be relied on for completeness, and the gap is the publisher's rather than ours: its Immigration Act lists sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30 and 31 in its own arrangement of sections and prints none of them. Two independent extractions of the file agree, every page but the last carries a text layer, and the headings Charging of member of crew, Persons unlawfully entering, Applications for work permits and Deportation orders each appear exactly once, in the contents. A negative claim read off this Chapter - that the Act says nothing about something - can be neither trusted nor disproved from it.
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«shall apply for the purpose to the Chief Immigration Officer in the prescribed form, and, if so required by that officer, report in person to an immigration officer and submit to an examination under this Act and the regulations, notwithstanding that he is already in Barbados.»The prescribed form is Form B under regulation 3 of the Immigration (Forms and Fees) Regulations, 1979. Section 13(4) then requires the Minister's approval before the Chief Immigration Officer may extend.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The statute library of the Barbadian judiciary, publishing the Chapters of the Laws of Barbados and the subsidiary legislation as PDFs printed by the Government Printer. It is the only place the consolidated Chapters are published as a browsable set, and it carries the Constitution, the Immigration Act Chapter 190, the Income Tax Act Chapter 73, the Customs Act Chapter 66, the Exchange Control Act Chapter 71 and the Caribbean Community Acts.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates and does not issue, and its editions are old and dated per page rather than per Act: the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act print Law Revision Order years of 2007 on their newest pages and 1997 or 2002 on others, and no page says what the Act looks like today. It must not be cited for anything amended after about 2008 without checking the amending Act - section 17(1) of the Immigration Act was substituted in 2020 and this edition does not show it. Several of its files are scans with no text layer: the Barbados Citizenship Act Chapter 186 is unreadable and the Road Traffic Act Chapter 295 is largely so, and neither may be quoted from this publisher. Extraction of the Immigration Act PDF silently loses four pairs of pages, so an absence in it is not evidence of absence in the Act. It must also not be relied on for completeness, and the gap is the publisher's rather than ours: its Immigration Act lists sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30 and 31 in its own arrangement of sections and prints none of them. Two independent extractions of the file agree, every page but the last carries a text layer, and the headings Charging of member of crew, Persons unlawfully entering, Applications for work permits and Deportation orders each appear exactly once, in the contents. A negative claim read off this Chapter - that the Act says nothing about something - can be neither trusted nor disproved from it.
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Practical notes
The Department states the entry visa fee in United States dollars - US$107 single entry, US$211 multiple - while the Immigration (Forms and Fees) Regulations prescribe BDS$200 on application for a student visa or other non-immigrant visa. The two cannot both describe the same charge, and we could not find an instrument setting the US dollar figures.
The visa, where one is needed, must be obtained before booking travel, and the Department is explicit that holding one does not guarantee entry: permission to enter is granted only by the immigration officer at the port of entry.
This record rests on the Immigration Act Chapter 190 as the Law Courts publish it, its Second Schedule, the Immigration Department's visa requirements page, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visa table dated 2022 and the Ministry's visitor page. We did not read sections 3, 4 or 5 of the Act: the pages carrying them were lost when the publisher's PDF was extracted, and that is recorded rather than worked around.
- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 190 of the Laws of Barbados
Supreme Court of Barbados - Laws of Barbados · consolidated to 2007
Known to be out of date. Four pairs of pages were lost in extraction, taking sections 3 to 5, 17(4) to 19 and 20(5) to 21(6) with them. Nothing quoted here comes from those sections.
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The statute library of the Barbadian judiciary, publishing the Chapters of the Laws of Barbados and the subsidiary legislation as PDFs printed by the Government Printer. It is the only place the consolidated Chapters are published as a browsable set, and it carries the Constitution, the Immigration Act Chapter 190, the Income Tax Act Chapter 73, the Customs Act Chapter 66, the Exchange Control Act Chapter 71 and the Caribbean Community Acts.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates and does not issue, and its editions are old and dated per page rather than per Act: the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act print Law Revision Order years of 2007 on their newest pages and 1997 or 2002 on others, and no page says what the Act looks like today. It must not be cited for anything amended after about 2008 without checking the amending Act - section 17(1) of the Immigration Act was substituted in 2020 and this edition does not show it. Several of its files are scans with no text layer: the Barbados Citizenship Act Chapter 186 is unreadable and the Road Traffic Act Chapter 295 is largely so, and neither may be quoted from this publisher. Extraction of the Immigration Act PDF silently loses four pairs of pages, so an absence in it is not evidence of absence in the Act. It must also not be relied on for completeness, and the gap is the publisher's rather than ours: its Immigration Act lists sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30 and 31 in its own arrangement of sections and prints none of them. Two independent extractions of the file agree, every page but the last carries a text layer, and the headings Charging of member of crew, Persons unlawfully entering, Applications for work permits and Deportation orders each appear exactly once, in the contents. A negative claim read off this Chapter - that the Act says nothing about something - can be neither trusted nor disproved from it.
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- administersVisa Requirement Information
Barbados Immigration Department
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The department that applies the Immigration Act: it controls entry and departure at the ports and processes applications for citizenship, permanent residence, immigrant status, work permits and entry visas. Its pages set out the documents it actually asks for under each statutory head, name the section each application is made under, and state the fees it charges. It also hosts the prescribed forms.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It states practice, not law, and its fees are not the fees the Immigration (Forms and Fees) Regulations prescribe - it publishes $300 on application where the Regulations say $200, and $1,200 or $1,500 on the grant where the Regulations say $800. It must not be cited for what an instrument requires, for the length of any statutory period, or for the entry visa fee in United States dollars, which no instrument we found carries. Its visa guidance points to a list published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rather than carrying one.
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- administersVisa requirements for foreign nationals entering Barbados
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
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The ministry responsible for consular policy and for CARICOM affairs, and the Government's voice on both. It publishes the complete visa table for every country in the world - the only such list any Caribbean country in this comparison puts out as a readable document - and it published the frequently asked questions for the launch of enhanced cooperation in free movement on 1 October 2025, including the Government's own answer to which laws govern it.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It administers and does not issue: nothing it publishes is an instrument, and its free movement FAQ is explicitly an explanation of a decision rather than a text of law. Its visa table carries its own revision date - August 2022 - and nothing says whether it has been reviewed since, so it must not be cited as the position today without checking. Its visitor page states a driving permit requirement that the Road Traffic Act as consolidated to 2022 does not contain.
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- administersPlanning to visit
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
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The ministry responsible for consular policy and for CARICOM affairs, and the Government's voice on both. It publishes the complete visa table for every country in the world - the only such list any Caribbean country in this comparison puts out as a readable document - and it published the frequently asked questions for the launch of enhanced cooperation in free movement on 1 October 2025, including the Government's own answer to which laws govern it.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It administers and does not issue: nothing it publishes is an instrument, and its free movement FAQ is explicitly an explanation of a decision rather than a text of law. Its visa table carries its own revision date - August 2022 - and nothing says whether it has been reviewed since, so it must not be cited as the position today without checking. Its visitor page states a driving permit requirement that the Road Traffic Act as consolidated to 2022 does not contain.
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