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Entering Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a Visitor

This replaces the general rule for you

Entry from Antigua and Barbuda: indefinite stay, not a visitor's permit

A citizen of Antigua and Barbuda is a citizen of a Protocol Member State of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union, and the Passport and Immigration Department gives indefinite stay on entry rather than a visitor's permit. The right behind it is Article 12.1 of the Protocol, which has had the force of law in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines since Act No. 22 of 2011 was brought into operation by proclamation on 10 August 2011. Because Saint Vincent incorporated the Protocol whole rather than writing it into its Immigration Act, Article 12.5 is part of Vincentian law too: a Protocol Member State may regulate the movement of such citizens, subject to the approval of the OECS Authority.

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An entry permit is granted at the desk and how long it runs depends on where the passport is from: six months for CARICOM, British, Schengen and United States citizens, three months for everyone else. Citizens of the other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States are not visitors at all - they are given indefinite stay - and since 1 October 2025 nationals of Barbados, Belize and Dominica are given it too. A short permit can be extended at EC$75 a month at the Immigration head office in Kingstown or at the ports in Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island. A visa is required in advance from citizens of ten named countries and from no one else, at EC$200. The Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, is the statute behind all of it, and it is not published.

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At a glance

Permit on arrival, CARICOM nationals
6 months
Permit on arrival, United Kingdom, Schengen states and the United States
6 months
Permit on arrival, all other countries
3 months
Permit on arrival, OECS citizens
Indefinite stay

Not a visitor's permit. It rests on the Revised Treaty of Basseterre and its Protocol, given the force of law by Act No. 22 of 2011.

Extension fee
EC$75.00 per month or part thereof

Cash. The same figure Grenada charges, and Grenada caps the total at twelve months from entry; no cap is published here.

Countries whose citizens need a visa
10

Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Syria, as published by the Ministry of National Security. Grenada publishes no such list at all, and the Saint Kitts list is a schedule to an Act.

Entry visa fee
EC$200.00 (US$88.00), non-refundable
Statute
Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114

Amended at least seven times since 1993 - in 2002, 2006 twice, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2021 and again by Act No. 15 of 2025 - and published nowhere we could reach.

Advance passenger information
Legislated in 2026

The Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record Act, 2026, Act No. 5 of 2026, published in the Gazette of 28 April 2026. What it requires of a traveller is not stated in the notice and the Act is not published.

Requirements

  • A passport, except where the Immigration (Passport Exemption) Regulations provide otherwise
  • For citizens of Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Syria: an entry visa applied for in advance from the Ministry of National Security
  • For a visa application: the passport bio-page, a passport photograph taken within the last six months, a letter from a sponsor, a valid police certificate of character, a financial statement, and accommodation booking, charter agreement or itinerary where applicable
  • For an extension: an application at the Immigration head office in Kingstown or at the ports in Bequia, Mustique, Canouan or Union Island, with EC$75 cash for each month or part month

In detail

Three months is the default, not six

The published table names four groups who get six months - CARICOM, the United Kingdom, the Schengen states and the United States - and then says three months for other international countries. That is the opposite shape from Grenada, where twelve months is the statutory ceiling for any visitor and the officer chooses within it, and from Saint Kitts and Nevis, where six months is the ordinary period and it can be extended up to six years from entry. A traveller from, say, Canada or Australia is in the three month group here unless something unpublished says otherwise.

Who needs a visa, and the unusual fact that it is published

Ten countries: Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Syria. Their citizens apply to the Ministry of National Security before travelling, with the passport bio-page, a photograph taken within six months, a sponsor's letter, a police certificate of character and a financial statement, and pay EC$200. Everyone else arrives without one. This is worth noting because of how rare it is in this region: Grenada's only general visa-exemption instrument is a list of twelve countries made in 1958 and the list actually used at the border is published nowhere, while Saint Vincent's administering ministry publishes the requirement as a closed list of ten.

The statute behind all of this is not public

The Immigration (Restriction) Act is Chapter 114 of the Revised Edition 2009. Parliament's record shows it amended in 2002, twice in 2006, in 2007, 2009, 2017, 2021 and in September 2025. The Government publishes the record of those amendments and does not publish the Act, so the periods, the extension fee and the visa list on this page rest on what the Passport and Immigration Department says it does, not on a section anyone can read.

Country-level policy

The Statute Book Is Sold, Not Published

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines publishes the fact of its laws and not their text. The Ministry of Legal Affairs puts every weekly Gazette online back to 2016, and each Gazette names the Acts and statutory rules and orders published that week - then says they can be purchased at the Government Printing Office at Campden Park. The House of Assembly publishes a table of every Act passed since 1993, with its long title, its short title, the dates of its readings, assent, publication and any proclamation, and its number. Neither publishes a section of an Act. The Immigration (Restriction) Act, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act, the Citizenship Act, the Employment of Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens Act and the Aliens (Land Holding Regulation) Act are all unreadable from outside the country, and every one of them governs something on this site.

What applies to you

Entry from Antigua and Barbuda: indefinite stay, not a visitor's permit

A citizen of Antigua and Barbuda is a citizen of a Protocol Member State of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union, and the Passport and Immigration Department gives indefinite stay on entry rather than a visitor's permit. The right behind it is Article 12.1 of the Protocol, which has had the force of law in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines since Act No. 22 of 2011 was brought into operation by proclamation on 10 August 2011. Because Saint Vincent incorporated the Protocol whole rather than writing it into its Immigration Act, Article 12.5 is part of Vincentian law too: a Protocol Member State may regulate the movement of such citizens, subject to the approval of the OECS Authority.

  • Citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda
  • Proof of identity accepted at the desk - the OECS Commission describes a driving licence, national identity card or voter card
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What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedMinistry of National Security, Passport and Immigration Department - Visitors' Permits
«Entry permits are granted on arrival by an Immigration Officer and may be valid as stated below:»

The administering department's own statement. The Immigration (Restriction) Act is the authority for it and is not published, so the periods below are the department's and cannot be traced to a section.

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The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMinistry of National Security, Passport and Immigration Department - Visitors' Permits
«• CARICOM Nationals – six (6) months • United Kingdom – six (6) months • Schengen Countries – six (6) months • U.S.A – six (6) months • Other International Countries – three (3) months»

Five lines, and the fifth is the general rule: three months for a passport from anywhere not named.

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The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMinistry of National Security, Passport and Immigration Department - Visitors' Permits
«There is a cost of EC$75.00 cash per month or part thereof.»

Cash, per month or part month. No ceiling on the total period is published.

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The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMinistry of National Security - Visa Requirements for St. Vincent and The Grenadines
«Persons from the named countries must apply to the Ministry of National Security in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, namely: **Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Syria.**»

A closed list of ten, published by the ministry that decides. It is the inverse of the usual Eastern Caribbean arrangement, where a schedule names the exempt and the list actually applied at the border is unpublished.

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The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMinistry of National Security - Visa Requirements for St. Vincent and The Grenadines
«All applications require a non-refundable fee of EC$200.00 (US$88.00)»
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About this source

The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2025, Act No. 15 of 2025 · Act No. 15 of 2025
«An Act to amend the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Revised Edition 2009 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.»

The most recent amendment, assented to on 30 September 2025 for the start of full free movement the following day.

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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.

Standing: Reports, establishes nothing

Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedGazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 158 No. 49, Government Notice No. 120
«S. R. & O. No. 19 of 2025:– Immigration (Passport Exemption) (Amendment) Regualtions, 2025.»

Saint Vincent has passport exemption regulations and amended them on 30 September 2025. Quoted with the Gazette's own spelling.

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The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedGazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 159 No. 19, Government Notice No. 42
«Act No. 5 of 2026:– Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record Act, 2026.»

Published 28 April 2026. Saint Kitts and Nevis introduced an electronic travel authorisation in 2025 through a portal with no statutory basis in its Immigration Act; Saint Vincent legislated first and has published no portal.

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About this source

The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedCARICOM Free Movement Regime - Information Note, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
«All Nationals from the four (4) participating Member States must present a valid CARICOM passport upon arrival at the port of entry. Nationals entering St. Vincent and the Grenadines can do so on a one-way ticket.»

The one-way ticket point is the practical one: an officer who may ordinarily ask for onward travel is told not to.

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The ministry that holds the CARICOM and CSME portfolio and the national CSME focal point. Publishes the Government's CARICOM Free Movement Regime information note of October 2025, which is the only published statement of how full free movement actually works here - indefinite stay on arrival, registration with National Security, schooling, health care, National Insurance, tools of trade and driving licences. Also hosts the Government's own copies of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre with its Protocol and the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, and an undated CSME skills brochure.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: The information note and the CSME pages describe a regime; they are not the implementing instruments, which are Acts 15 and 16 of 2025 and S.R. & O. 18 and 19 of 2025 and are not published. The skills brochure is undated, names the ministry under a former title and lists skills categories that may no longer match the law. Its visa requirements PDF of July 2020 is about Vincentians travelling abroad and must never be cited for who may enter Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Practical notes

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes a visa requirements list, but it runs the other way: it is what Vincentians need in order to travel abroad, not what a visitor needs to come here. The inbound requirement is published by the Ministry of National Security, on its entry visa application page.

No statutory basis could be read for any of the permit periods or the EC$75 extension fee. The Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, and the Immigration (Passport Exemption) Regulations are both sold at the Government Printing Office and published nowhere online; this was checked against the Government's Gazette archive for 2016 to 2026 and the House of Assembly's record of Acts from 1993 to 2025.

The Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record Act, 2026 was assented to and published on 28 April 2026. Nothing about it appears on the Passport and Immigration Department's pages, and no regulations under it appear in any 2026 Gazette, so whether it yet asks anything of a traveller is unknown.

Sources8 · all accessed 2026-10-05
  • administers
    Visitors' Permits, Passport and Immigration Department

    Ministry of National Security, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

    Standing: Applies the rule

    Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

    We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

  • administers
    Application for Entry Visa and Visa Requirements

    Ministry of National Security, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

    Standing: Applies the rule

    Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

    We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

  • administers
    Services of the Passport and Immigration Department

    Ministry of National Security, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    The department that stamps passports and issues entry permits. Publishes the periods of stay granted on arrival by nationality, the extension procedure and its charge, the list of countries whose citizens need an entry visa in advance, the visa application requirements and fee, and the list of services the department offers. Also the registration point for nationals exercising CARICOM full free movement.

    Standing: Applies the rule

    Cannot be cited for: Everything it publishes is a description of practice, not a citation of the Immigration (Restriction) Act, Chapter 114, which is not published anywhere. It must never be cited as the legal basis for a period of stay, a fee or a visa requirement - only as the administering department's statement of what it does. It is silent on residence and work permits beyond naming the office that decides them, silent on students, and silent on the driving licence exemption its own government announced for full free movement nationals.

    We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

  • issues
    Gazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 158 No. 49, 30 September 2025

    Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Official Gazette, Ministry of Legal Affairs and Justice

    About this source

    The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.

    Standing: Issues the instrument

    Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.

    We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

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    Gazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 159 No. 19, 28 April 2026

    Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Official Gazette, Ministry of Legal Affairs and Justice

    About this source

    The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.

    Standing: Issues the instrument

    Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.

    We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

  • reports
    Record of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2025

    House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.

    Standing: Reports, establishes nothing

    Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.

    We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source

  • reports
    Record of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2021

    House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.

    Standing: Reports, establishes nothing

    Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.

    We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source

  • administers
    CARICOM Free Movement Regime - Information Note, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment and Diaspora Affairs, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    About this source

    The ministry that holds the CARICOM and CSME portfolio and the national CSME focal point. Publishes the Government's CARICOM Free Movement Regime information note of October 2025, which is the only published statement of how full free movement actually works here - indefinite stay on arrival, registration with National Security, schooling, health care, National Insurance, tools of trade and driving licences. Also hosts the Government's own copies of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre with its Protocol and the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, and an undated CSME skills brochure.

    Standing: Applies the rule

    Cannot be cited for: The information note and the CSME pages describe a regime; they are not the implementing instruments, which are Acts 15 and 16 of 2025 and S.R. & O. 18 and 19 of 2025 and are not published. The skills brochure is undated, names the ministry under a former title and lists skills categories that may no longer match the law. Its visa requirements PDF of July 2020 is about Vincentians travelling abroad and must never be cited for who may enter Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

    We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source