Entering Grenada as a Visitor
This replaces the general rule for you
The Certificate Decides Whether You Get Six Months or the Rest of Your Life
Grenada splits the skills certificate in two by the form it is written on, and the difference is the whole stay. A national of a qualifying state who presents a passport and a certificate in the form in Grenada's own Second Schedule must be let in for an indefinite period. A national who presents a certificate in another state's equivalent form must be let in for six months. The issuer is the same government in both limbs; only the form differs. In each case the officer shall permit entry - the Act says so notwithstanding any other law - and what is granted may not be revoked except for a cause that would expose some class of Grenadian citizens to deportation.
Twelve months is the ceiling the Immigration Act sets for a visitor, and that is the longest ordinary visitor period anywhere in this comparison. An officer may grant up to twelve months on arrival; a shorter permit can be extended, but only up to twelve months from the date of entry, so the ceiling is counted from when you landed rather than from each renewal. Extensions cost EC$75 a month. Whether you need a visa first is the hardest question here, because the only visa-exemption instrument inside the consolidated law is a list of twelve countries from 1958, and the real exemptions sit in a 2016 amendment for Schengen passports and in practice at the border. Citizens of the Eastern Caribbean are in a different position entirely: they are entitled to remain, and they need no passport.
At a glance
- Maximum visitor permit
- 12 months
Section 14(1) of the Immigration Act. The officer decides the period; twelve months is the ceiling, not the default.
- Extension ceiling
- 12 months from the date of entry
Section 14(2). Extensions do not restart the clock - the ceiling runs from entry, so a three-month permit can be extended by at most nine months.
- Extension fee
- EC$75 per month
Regulation 3(4) of the Immigration (Extension of Permit Fee) Regulations as amended by S.R.O. 29 of 2019, in force 1 November 2019. The figure was EC$25 before that date and the Immigration Department's own page still published EC$25 when we looked.
- Change of status to visitor on business
- EC$600
Regulation 3A, inserted by S.R.O. 37 of 2019, for a visitor on vacation who wants to apply for a work permit.
- Schengen passports
- 90 days in any 180, visa-free
Section 14A of the Immigration Act, inserted by Act 16 of 2016. Thirty states are named in the Third Schedule after S.R.O. 5 of 2017 added four.
- Eastern Caribbean citizens
- Entitled to remain
Section 13(5) of the Immigration Act. The entitlement covers citizens of any OECS member state, not only those in the Protocol, and is lost only by being a prohibited alien or by revocation under section 17.
- Passport for Eastern Caribbean citizens
- Not required
Section 5(3A) of the Immigration Act allows a driving licence or national identity card with a photograph, valid for the intended stay.
- Overstaying
- Deemed a prohibited alien
Section 14(4). The consequence is not a fine but reclassification, which brings the removal machinery in sections 18 to 23 into play.
Requirements
- A valid passport, unless you are a citizen of an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States member, who may use a driving licence or national identity card instead
- A visa, unless your nationality is exempt - the Schengen exemption in section 14A covers thirty states, and the 1958 Visa Regulations name twelve more
- Evidence that you will not become a public charge: employment to return to, a return ticket, or enough money for the visit and the fare home
- A permit from an immigration officer, which may be for any period up to twelve months
- For an extension, an application to the Chief Immigration Officer and EC$75 for each month granted
In detail
Twelve months, and why that number matters
Most countries in this comparison give a visitor thirty, sixty or ninety days. Grenada's Immigration Act gives an officer power to grant up to twelve months in one go, and that has been the law since 1969. The practical catch is in the next subsection: an extension cannot take you past twelve months from the date you entered. So the generosity is in the ceiling, not in the renewals - someone admitted for one month and extended four times reaches the same wall as someone admitted for twelve. Leaving the country and returning starts a new entry and a new twelve months, which is why the long-stay pattern here is a year in and a trip out rather than a chain of extensions.
The visa question, and the honest answer
We can tell you what the instruments say and we cannot tell you the list. The Immigration (Visa) Regulations of 1958 require a visa of every foreign national except twelve named countries and Venezuelans with onward tickets. A separate 1948 instrument exempts British, American and Canadian citizens from carrying a passport, not from needing a visa. Then in 2016 Parliament inserted section 14A, giving Schengen passport holders ninety days in any one hundred and eighty without a visa, and listed twenty-six states in a new Third Schedule; an Order of 2017 added Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania. Nothing we read repeals the 1958 Regulations or sets out the visa-free list the Immigration Department actually applies, and the Department's own page would not survive capture. We therefore publish the instruments and no list.
A schedule that outran its own definition
Section 14A(4) defines a Schengen Area Member State as any European country that applies the Schengen acquis in full. The Third Schedule it refers to is a closed list the Minister may amend. In April 2017 the Minister added Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania. On that date none of the four applied the acquis in full; Croatia did not until 2023, Bulgaria and Romania not until 2025, and Cyprus still does not. The result is that a Cypriot passport is in the Schedule but outside the definition, and whether the ninety-day entitlement is available depends on which half of the section you read. This is the kind of thing that only shows up when the amending Order and the amended section are read together, and nothing on the law portal puts them together for you.
The Eastern Caribbean traveller is not a visitor
Two separate provisions take citizens of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States out of the visitor scheme. Section 13(5) says such a person is entitled to remain unless they are a prohibited alien or their permit has been revoked - an entitlement with no stated length, available to the citizen of any OECS member state. Section 4A, inserted in 2012 for the states that are party to the Protocol of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union, requires an officer to grant a permit for a stay of indefinite duration. And section 5(3A) lets any OECS citizen prove who they are with a driving licence or a national identity card rather than a passport. Grenada is unusual in having written the identity-card point into its own statute rather than leaving it to the Commission that administers the regime.
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
The Certificate Decides Whether You Get Six Months or the Rest of Your Life
Grenada splits the skills certificate in two by the form it is written on, and the difference is the whole stay. A national of a qualifying state who presents a passport and a certificate in the form in Grenada's own Second Schedule must be let in for an indefinite period. A national who presents a certificate in another state's equivalent form must be let in for six months. The issuer is the same government in both limbs; only the form differs. In each case the officer shall permit entry - the Act says so notwithstanding any other law - and what is granted may not be revoked except for a cause that would expose some class of Grenadian citizens to deportation.
What the law says
«Where a person desires to remain in Grenada as a visitor or passenger in transit for a period not exceeding twelve months, an immigration officer may, if so requested, without deciding whether that person is or is not a prohibited alien, grant him or her a permit to remain in Grenada for such period not exceeding twelve months as may be specified in the permit.»The officer does not have to decide whether the traveller is a prohibited alien before granting the permit, which is why the question can resurface later.
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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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«If the permit is for a period less than twelve months it may be extended, from time to time, by the Chief Immigration Officer up to a maximum of twelve months from the date of entry.»The ceiling is measured from entry. Leaving and returning starts a fresh entry, which is the only way the twelve months resets.
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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.»This is wider than the Protocol provision in section 4A: it reaches every OECS member state, and it is an entitlement rather than a permit of a stated length.
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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 person who is a citizen of any Member State of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States may establish his or her identity and nationality by producing an identity card, in the form of a Driver’s Licence or National Identification Card of the Member State with a photograph, which has been duly issued or renewed and is valid for the period of the person’s intended stay in Grenada.»Grenada has written identity-card travel into its own statute. The OECS Commission describes the same thing as a regional benefit; here it is national law.
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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 person who is a citizen of a Schengen Area Member State, mentioned in the Third Schedule who holds a valid ordinary, diplomatic, service, official or special Passport issued by any Schengen Area Member State may enter Grenada as a visitor without a Visa and may remain in Grenada for a period not exceeding ninety days in any period of one hundred and eighty days.»Cite the section of the Immigration Act, naming the Act that inserted it. Section 14A does not appear in the Chapter as published, because the revised edition stops before 2012.
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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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«In this section, “Schengen Area Member State” means any European country that applies the Schengen acquis in full.»The definition and the Schedule do not agree. S.R.O. 5 of 2017 added four states to the Schedule, and on the day it was made none of them applied the Schengen acquis in full.
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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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«is amended by inserting in alphabetical order the following countries– “Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Romania.”»Made under section 14A(3). Croatia joined the Schengen area in 2023 and Bulgaria and Romania in 2025; Cyprus has not. The Schedule has run ahead of its own definition since 2017.
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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) Citizens of Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Colonies, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States of America;»Dated 16 August 1958 and never amended in the consolidated text. It is the only general visa-exemption instrument the Chapter carries, and it names neither the United Kingdom, nor Canada, nor any CARICOM state.
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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 the exemption specified in regulation 3 of these Regulations the passport of a national of any foreign country shall not be accepted by an immigration officer unless it bears a visa of a Grenadian Consular or Passport Control Officer.»Read literally this requires a visa of every nationality outside the 1958 list and the Schengen Schedule. It is not what happens at the airport, and the gap between the two is the single largest divergence we found in this country.
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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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«United Kingdom, United States and Canadian citizens who possess valid return tickets to the United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada, respectively, and who are on a visit to the State for a period not exceeding six months:»Dated 13 November 1948. It exempts from the passport requirement in section 5, not from the visa requirement in the Visa Regulations, and it is conditional on a return ticket and a declaration.
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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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«by deleting the words “twenty- five” after the words “a fee of” and substituting therefor the words “seventy-five”.»Quoted with the broken word the publisher prints. In force 1 November 2019. The amount in the Chapter as published is still twenty-five dollars.
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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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«Where the Chief Immigration Officer grants the application for an extension of stay and change of condition under this regulation, the applicant shall be required to pay a fee of six hundred dollars.»A route the Act itself does not contain: a visitor on vacation who wants to work changes condition to visitor on business while the work permit is applied for.
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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 person on a temporary visit to the State shall, if required by an immigration officer, produce evidence to his or her satisfaction—»What follows is employment elsewhere and an intent to return to it, a return ticket, or enough money for the visit and the fare. These 1938 Regulations are the source of the sufficient-funds question asked at the border.
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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 person who is likely if he or she entered Grenada to become a public charge by reason of infirmity of body or mind or who is not in possession of sufficient means to support himself or herself and such of his or her dependants as he or she shall bring with him or her to Grenada;»The first and widest ground on which entry is refused. Section 4(2) puts two of the grounds beyond the reach of any court.
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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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Practical notes
The visa-free list applied at the border is not published in any instrument we read, and the Immigration Department's own page is served behind a filter that refused every capture we attempted. Nothing on this record states which nationalities enter without a visa beyond the twelve in the 1958 Regulations and the thirty in the Third Schedule to section 14A.
The Immigration Department publishes the extension-of-stay fee as EC$25 a month. S.R.O. 29 of 2019 raised it to EC$75 with effect from 1 November 2019 and nothing we found has altered it since. Where the two disagree the instrument is the law, but the counter is where you pay, so expect to be told either figure.
The Immigration Act as published in the revised edition is amended only to Act 6 of 2007. Four later amending Acts - Act 7 of 2012, Act 16 of 2016, Act 13 of 2017 and Act 1 of 2021 - are not folded into it, and sections 4A, 9A, 9B and 14A exist only in those Acts. Reading the Chapter alone will tell you that none of them is there.
Act 13 of 2017, which restructured the Act into Parts and added the advance passenger information regime, came into force on 1 September 2017 by S.R.O. 21 of 2017. Act 16 of 2016 and Act 1 of 2021 carry no commencement provision of that kind and we read them as in force from their publication dates.
Grenada operates no electronic travel authorisation that we could find, in contrast with Saint Kitts and Nevis, which introduced one in 2025. Nothing in the Immigration Act or the Statutory Rules and Orders through 2026 provides for pre-travel authorisation.
- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 145, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 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 (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act No. 16 of 2016)
Laws of Grenada
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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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- consolidatesImmigration Order, 2017 (S.R.O. No. 5 of 2017)
Laws of Grenada
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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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesImmigration (Extension of Permit Fee) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 (S.R.O. No. 29 of 2019)
Laws of Grenada
About this source
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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- consolidatesImmigration (Extension of Permit Fee) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2019 (S.R.O. No. 37 of 2019)
Laws of Grenada
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesImmigration (Amendment) Act (Commencement) Order, 2017 (S.R.O. No. 21 of 2017)
Laws of Grenada
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source