Moving to Grenada Under CARICOM or the OECS
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Jamaica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
91 exceptions recorded across 34 countries · none match Jamaica to Grenada · Residency under a regional treaty
Three regimes, and they confer three different things. A citizen of one of the six other Eastern Caribbean states party to the Protocol of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union gets a permit to enter and remain for a stay of indefinite duration, and is exempt from the work permit requirement outright - unless they bought that citizenship, which Grenada alone has written an exclusion for. A CARICOM national holding a Certificate of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills Qualification gets indefinite entry, the right to work, and the right to buy property for a home or a business, which overrides the alien land-holding statute. And every CARICOM national has a right of establishment and a right to provide services written into Grenadian law since 2006. What nobody has is general free movement: Grenada is not among the four states in the 2026 full free movement arrangement.
At a glance
- OECS Protocol: period granted
- Indefinite
Section 4A(1) of the Immigration Act, inserted by Act 7 of 2012, says an immigration officer shall grant the permit. It is not discretionary.
- OECS Protocol: work permit
- Not required
The Work Permit Exemption (Citizen of a Protocol Member State) Order, S.R.O. 24 of 2015, declares them exempt from the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Employment) Act.
- OECS Protocol: economic citizens excluded
- Yes, unless the Minister approves the programme
Paragraph 3(2) of S.R.O. 24 of 2015. Saint Lucia has the same exclusion in almost the same words and got there first, by section 3(2) of S.I. 83 of 2014, and repeated it in its road traffic law.
- OECS entry without the Protocol
- An entitlement to remain
Section 13(5) of the Immigration Act covers a citizen of any OECS member state and states no period at all.
- OECS: identity card instead of a passport
- Allowed by statute
Section 5(3A) of the Immigration Act names a driving licence or national identity card with a photograph.
- CARICOM skills certificate: period granted
- Indefinite
Section 4(1) of the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act, on a certificate in the Second Schedule form. Section 5 gives six months where the certificate is in the home state's equivalent form.
- CARICOM skills certificate: what else it gives
- Work, movement, and property for a home or a business
Section 10(1) removes restrictions on freedom of movement, on acquiring property for residence, on gainful employment and on acquiring property for a business, notwithstanding any other law.
- Qualifying CARICOM states
- 11
Thirteen entries in the First Schedule, less Grenada itself and less Montserrat, which section 2 excludes by name. Haiti and The Bahamas are not listed. Section 3 then brings Montserrat belongers back in for the certificate application.
- Who qualifies for a certificate
- Degree holders and ten prescribed occupations
Section 8(1) lists university degrees and equivalents; the Qualifications Order prescribes artistes, musicians, sportspersons, media workers, nurses and teachers, and S.R.O. 6 of 2015 added university graduates, associate degree holders, household domestics with a CVQ and artisans with CVQ qualifications.
- CARICOM right of establishment
- In Grenadian law since 2006
Sections 5 and 7 of the Caribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act, Cap. 39A, enacted as Act 17 of 2006.
- 2026 full free movement protocol
- Grenada is not a participant
The states that have taken that step so far are Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, as established by the research on those countries. Nothing in Grenadian law corresponds to it.
Requirements
- Under the OECS Protocol: citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia or Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and not having acquired it under an economic or honourary citizenship programme
- Under section 13(5) of the Immigration Act: citizenship of any OECS member state, which is an entitlement to remain whether or not the state is in the Protocol
- Under the Skilled Nationals Act: a passport from one of the qualifying CARICOM states and a Certificate of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills Qualification
- The certificate is issued by the Minister responsible for CARICOM affairs on application with documentary evidence and a prescribed fee, or by the home state in its equivalent form
- Under the Movement of Factors Act: nationality of a Member State, for the right of establishment, the right to provide services and the right to move capital
In detail
What the Protocol actually gives, and the exclusion nobody mentions
Grenada implemented Eastern Caribbean free movement in two steps. Act 7 of 2012 inserted section 4A into the Immigration Act, requiring an officer to grant a citizen of a Protocol Member State a permit to enter and remain for a stay of indefinite duration. Then in July 2015 two instruments made on the same day did the work on employment: one exempted such citizens from the work permit requirement altogether, the other removed the fee for five named states. The exemption Order carries a proviso we have not found anywhere else in the region. It does not apply to a person who became a citizen of a Protocol state under an economic or honourary citizenship programme, unless that programme is comparable to Grenada's own and the Minister responsible for citizenship has approved it as such. Three Protocol states run investment citizenship programmes. Grenada has decided, by instrument, that buying a neighbour's passport does not buy the right to work here.
Two Eastern Caribbean provisions, not one
Section 4A is keyed to the Protocol. Section 13(5), which has been in the Chapter longer, is keyed to membership of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and says a citizen of any member state is entitled to remain unless they are a prohibited alien or their permit has been revoked. The second is wider in reach and vaguer in content; the first is narrower and more precise. A citizen of an OECS state outside the Protocol - and the Commission lists seven Protocol states of which Grenada is one - still has section 13(5) and section 5(3A), which lets them prove identity with a driving licence rather than a passport.
The CARICOM certificate is worth more here than next door
Section 10 of the Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act is the most generous provision of its kind we have read. A certificate holder is free of any restriction on movement, on acquiring property for use as a residence, on gainful employment, and on acquiring property for use in a business - and the section opens notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. That last phrase reaches the Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act, which otherwise forfeits to the Government land held by an unlicensed foreigner. A Jamaican or Barbadian with a skills certificate can buy a house in Grenada without a land-holding licence. The limit is in subsection (3): buying as an investment is not buying for a business, unless dealing in investment property is your business.
Three sets of qualifications, and only two of them are in the Chapter
Who can get a certificate is answered in three places. Section 8 of the Act lists university degrees and their equivalents. The Qualifications Order of 2003, as amended in 2008, prescribes artistes, musicians, sportspersons, media workers, nurses and teachers. And S.R.O. 6 of 2015 added four more categories - university graduates, holders of associate degrees or equivalent, household domestics with a Caribbean Vocational Qualification, and artisans with CVQ qualifications. The revised edition prints the Order as amended to 2008 and stops, so a reader relying on the Chapter will not know that the regime reaches a domestic worker or a tradesman with a vocational qualification. That is the single most useful thing the 2015 Order did and it is invisible in the consolidation.
Establishment: implemented, with a schedule left hanging
Articles 32 to 37 of the Revised Treaty oblige member states to remove restrictions on establishment and on the provision of services. Grenada enacted the Caribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act in 2006 to do it, and sections 5, 7 and 9 give nationals of member states the right to establish an enterprise, to provide a service and to move capital, in each case without discrimination on grounds of nationality. Section 4 keeps the obligation honest in the other direction: any permission a Grenadian would need, a CARICOM national needs too. Section 11 then says the enactments listed in the Second Schedule, which are of a discriminatory nature, are amended and come into operation on a date the Minister appoints by Notice. Six statutes are listed. The Chapter records no subsidiary legislation under the Act at all, and we found no Notice. On the face of the published law the amendments to those six statutes have not commenced.
Country-level policy
Grenada publishes its law well, in two halves that do not meet. The Chapters are the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010, and most of them are amended only to the mid-2000s: the Immigration Act stops at Act 6 of 2007, the Citizenship Act at Act 31 of 2002, the Income Tax Act at Act 2 of 2010. The Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders since are published separately, by year, as enacted. Nothing in either half tells you that the other exists. Read the Immigration Chapter and you will not know that Eastern Caribbean citizens have an indefinite stay or that Schengen passports enter visa-free. Read the Income Tax Chapter and you will take the rate as thirty per cent when it is twenty-eight. Read the Banking Chapter and you will be reading an Act repealed in 2015.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Jamaica
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
«4A.— (1) Subject to section 4, an immigration officer shall grant a permit for a citizen of a Protocol Member State to enter and remain in Grenada for a stay of indefinite duration.»Cite the section of the Immigration Act naming the Act that inserted it. Section 4A does not appear in the Chapter as published.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«AN ACT to amend the Immigration Act to secure the freedom of movement of citizens of OECS Member States that are parties to the Protocol of Eastern Caribbean Economic Union by granting a stay of indefinite duration, and for incidental and connected matters.»The purpose stated on the face of the Act. Assented 27 January 2012, published 3 February 2012, six months after free movement began in the Economic Union.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«“citizen of a Protocol Member State” means a person who is a citizen of a Member State of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States that is a party to the Protocol of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union.»Membership of the OECS is not enough; the state must be a party to the Protocol. The Act does not list which states those are, so the list comes from the OECS Commission.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Notwithstanding anything in this section, a person who is a citizen of a Member State of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States is entitled to remain in Grenada unless the person is a prohibited alien or the person’s permit to enter or remain in Grenada has been revoked under section 17.»Wider than section 4A: this reaches every OECS member state, in or out of the Protocol, and it is in the Chapter as published rather than in an amending Act.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«a citizen of a Protocol Member State is declared to be exempt from the provisions of the Act in relation to the requirement to obtain a work permit, provided that such citizen has gained lawful entry into Grenada in accordance with the provisions of the Immigration Act, Chapter 145 or any other enactment which entitles him or her to enter and remain in Grenada.»Made under section 3(4) of the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Employment) Act, the power to exempt a class of individuals from the permit requirement.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to a person who becomes a citizen of a Protocol Member State under an economic or honourary citizenship programme of the Protocol Member State, unless this programme is comparable to an economic or honourary citizenship programme in force in Grenada and is approved as such by the Minister with responsibility for matters relating to citizenship.»The single most consequential sentence in Grenada's regional-movement law. A person who bought citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica or Saint Kitts and Nevis does not get the work permit exemption unless the Minister has approved that programme as comparable to Grenada's.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, an immigration officer shall, subject to section 16, permit a person to whom this section applies to enter Grenada for a period of indefinite duration.»Indefinite from the first entry, on a certificate in the Second Schedule form. Section 16 is the offences provision, so the only qualification is a false statement.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, an immigration officer shall, subject to section 16, permit a person to whom this section applies to enter Grenada for a period of six months.»Six months where the certificate is in the home state's equivalent form rather than the Second Schedule form. The distinction is the form, not who issued it, which is not how Saint Kitts and Nevis draws the same line.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(b) any restriction on freedom to acquire property for use as that person’s residence;»With paragraph (d), property for use in the person's business, this overrides the Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act for a certificate holder - the section opens with the words notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. Saint Kitts and Nevis has no equivalent.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The acquisition of property as an investment does not amount under this section to the use of property for the purpose of business unless the person acquiring that property is engaged in the business of managing or dealing in investment property.»The limit on the property right: a home and business premises, not a portfolio.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«“qualifying Caribbean Community state” means a member state of the Caribbean Community other than Montserrat and which is listed in the First Schedule;»Montserrat is listed in the First Schedule and excluded by this definition. Section 3 then deems a Montserrat passport to be issued by Montserrat and a belonger to be a citizen of a qualifying state for the purposes of applying for a certificate, which does not sit comfortably with the exclusion.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(a) an artiste;»The prescribed occupations are artiste, musician, sportsperson, media worker, nurse and teacher. The Chapter prints the Order as amended by S.R.O. 11 of 2008 and does not carry the 2015 amendment.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«“(g) university graduates;»Paragraphs (h), (i) and (j) added holders of associate degrees or equivalent, household domestics with a CVQ or equivalent, and artisans with CVQ qualifications. This is the instrument that opened the regime beyond the professions, and the consolidated Chapter does not show it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Subject to this Act, a national of a Member State shall enjoy the right of establishment of economic enterprises in Grenada without discrimination on the ground of nationality.»Grenada has implemented the Revised Treaty's establishment articles in domestic law. Saint Kitts and Nevis, on the reading recorded there, has not.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The right of establishment, the right to provide a service or the right to move capital does not dispense with the necessity of a national of a Member State obtaining permission where that permission is required of a national of Grenada in accordance with any law in force in Grenada.»The right is to equal treatment, not to exemption. A licence a Grenadian needs, a CARICOM national needs.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The enactments listed in the Second Schedule that are of a discriminatory nature are amended and shall come into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by Notice published in the Gazette.»The Chapter prints this section under the heading Enactments of discriminatory nature amended while the arrangement of sections calls it something else. The Second Schedule names six statutes, and the Chapter records no subsidiary legislation under the Act at all, so we found no Notice bringing the amendments into operation.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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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. Article 46 takes the first step by category. CARICOM has never conferred general free movement, which is the single most common misstatement about it.
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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. Grenada enacted this in 1995 and widened it by Order in 2003, 2008 and 2015.
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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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«the Member States shall remove restrictions on the right of establishment of nationals of a Member State in the territory of another Member State.»The obligation Cap. 39A implements. Reading the two together is the only way to see that Grenada did implement it and that the implementation stops short of amending the discriminatory statutes listed in its own Second Schedule.
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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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Practical notes
The membership of the Protocol is not stated in any Grenadian instrument. The Immigration Act defines a Protocol Member State by reference to the Protocol itself, so the list of seven - Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - is the OECS Commission's own and would change without any amendment to Grenadian law.
Montserrat sits awkwardly in every list here. It is a Protocol participant and a British Overseas Territory with no citizens of its own, it is in the First Schedule to the Skilled Nationals Act and excluded from the definition of a qualifying state in the same Act, and it is in the thousand-dollar work permit fee band rather than the five fee-exempt Eastern Caribbean states. We record all three and reconcile none of them.
The claim that no Notice has been published under section 11(1) of the Caribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act rests on the Chapter's own statement that the Act has no subsidiary legislation and on the Statutory Rules and Orders collections for 2011 to 2026 on the law portal. The portal's collection does not reach back to 2006, so a Notice made between 2006 and 2010 would not appear in it.
The OECS Commission states four things Grenadian law does not: portability of social security benefits, mutual recognition of driving licences, contingent rights in employment, education, healthcare and social protection, and the inclusion of third-country spouses in the work exemption. We found a Grenadian provision for the identity-card point and for the work exemption, and none for the other four. Those are the Commission's statements about the regime and not Grenadian law.
Grenada is not among the states that have moved to full CARICOM free movement in 2026. Nothing in the Grenadian instruments we read refers to it, and the four participants established in the research on other countries are Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
- consolidatesImmigration (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. 7 of 2012)
Laws of Grenada
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesWork Permit Exemption (Citizen of a Protocol Member State) Order, 2015 (S.R.O. No. 24 of 2015)
Laws of Grenada
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesCaribbean Community Skilled Nationals Act, Chapter 39B, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesCaribbean Community Skilled Nationals (Qualifications) (Amendment) Order, 2015 (S.R.O. No. 6 of 2015)
Laws of Grenada
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesCaribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act, Chapter 39A, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 145, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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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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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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