CARICOM Movement into Trinidad and Tobago: Who Issued the Certificate Decides
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Belize to Trinidad and Tobago · Residency under a regional treaty
Trinidad and Tobago splits the skills certificate by who issued it, and since 2023 it has swapped which section does which. Under section 3 of the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act as it now stands, a national presenting a certificate issued by the Government of another qualifying Member State in a form equivalent to Part C of Schedule II is admitted for six months, stamped FREE MOVEMENT SIX MONTHS ENTRY RIGHT TO WORK VERIFICATION REQUIRED, and must apply within those six months to have the certificate verified. Under section 4, a national presenting a certificate issued by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in the Schedule II form is admitted for an indefinite duration and gets the freedoms of movement, employment and property that a citizen has. The verification route does not lead to indefinite entry: section 3(6) says the Chief Immigration Officer grants permission to remain for a period to be determined by the Chief Immigration Officer, which is a discretion and not a status. Anyone may apply to the Trinidadian Minister for the Schedule II certificate under section 6, so the shortest path to indefinite entry is to get Trinidad and Tobago's own certificate before travelling. The twelve occupations are the full CARICOM list. The right of establishment is enforceable, but through the Caribbean Community Act rather than through the hook the Immigration Act offers. Trinidad and Tobago is not one of the four states in the 2025 full free movement arrangement and has legislated nothing for it.
At a glance
- Certificate issued by another Member State
- Six months
- Certificate issued by Trinidad and Tobago
- Indefinite duration
- Where the line is drawn
- By which government issued the certificate
- What verification leads to
- A period determined by the Chief Immigration Officer
Section 3(6). Not indefinite entry, and no criterion is stated.
- Deadline to apply for verification
- Six months from arrival
- Time the Minister has to answer
- 14 days from receipt
Section 3(5) as substituted prints it in words - within fourteen days from the date of receiving the application - which is the quotation on this record.
- Can a national of another Member State get Trinidad and Tobago's certificate
- Yes
Section 6 lets any national of Trinidad and Tobago or of a qualifying Member State apply to the Minister for it.
- Qualifying occupations
- Twelve
Artiste, musician, sports person, media worker, professional nurse, teacher, artisan with a Caribbean Vocational Qualification, University Graduate, holder of an Associate Degree, domestic worker with a Caribbean Vocational Qualification, agricultural worker, security guard.
- Member States in Schedule I
- Fourteen, including Montserrat and Trinidad and Tobago itself
- Skills certificate fees in Schedule V
- Not in force
Section 20 of the 2022 Act was proclaimed only as to Schedules III and IV. Schedule V, which prescribes $750, $400 and $1,000, was not.
- Spouse's right to work without a permit
- Not in force
Section 13 of the 2022 Act, which would insert section 10(2A), was omitted from the proclamation.
- Act implementing the 2025 full free movement protocol
- None - Trinidad and Tobago is not a party
Requirements
- Nationality of a qualifying Caribbean Community State listed in Schedule I
- A passport issued by a qualifying Member State, or any other State together with the certificate
- A Certificate of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills Qualification, issued either by Trinidad and Tobago or by another Member State in an equivalent form
- For six-month entrants: an application to the Minister within six months to have the certificate verified, on the form in Part B of Schedule II
- Not being the subject of a deportation order and not afflicted with an infectious or dangerous infectious disease under the Public Health Ordinance
In detail
The fifth answer to the same Treaty obligation
Five countries in this comparison have the same obligation under the Revised Treaty and five different domestic answers. Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines split by who issued the certificate: their own, indefinite; the home state's, six months. Grenada and Saint Lucia split by which form it is on. Barbados splits by whether it has been verified: any Member State's certificate gives six months and the right to work from day one, and the same certificate verified by the Barbados Accreditation Council gives indefinite entry stamped in the passport. Trinidad and Tobago combines the first test with a weaker version of the third. The line is drawn by the issuing government - section 4 requires a certificate issued by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, section 3 a certificate issued by the Government of another qualifying Member State - and verification exists, but it does not promote you. Section 3(6) says that where the certificate has been verified as valid the holder comes before the Chief Immigration Officer to be granted permission to remain for a period to be determined by the Chief Immigration Officer. In Barbados the verification produces an indefinite entry stamp; here it produces a discretion with no criterion attached to it.
Which section is which, and when it changed
Before 2023 section 3 of Chapter 18:03 was the indefinite section and section 4 was the six-month section. Act No. 9 of 2022 repealed and substituted both and swapped them over, so section 3 is now six months and section 4 is now indefinite, and it amended section 10A to follow - deleting indefinite duration from paragraph (a) and six months from paragraph (b) and substituting each for the other. The consolidated Chapter published by the Law Revision Commission is the pre-2022 text, updated to 31 December 2016, and it still prints the old order. Anyone reading only the Chapter will cite the right proposition to the wrong section number, which is a trap peculiar to this country because the amendment did not just change the rule, it moved it.
The door that opens the shorter route
Section 6 lets any national of Trinidad and Tobago or of a qualifying Caribbean Community State apply to the Minister responsible for CARICOM affairs for a certificate in the Schedule II form, and section 7(1) obliges the Minister to grant it to any applicant who satisfies the qualification requirements and is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago or a national of a qualifying Member State. The Minister may refuse only on a conviction for an offence under section 15 or a similar offence elsewhere. That means a Jamaican or a Guyanese does not have to arrive on a home-state certificate and take the six months: they can apply to Port of Spain for Trinidad and Tobago's own certificate first, and arrive within section 4 for an indefinite stay. The difference between the two sections is a matter of which office issued the paper, and section 6 makes that office available to everyone.
The right to work, and where it is written
Section 4(3) gives the indefinite entrant freedom from restrictions on movement, on acquiring property for residence, on gainful employment in accordance with the certificate, and on acquiring property for business. Section 3(3) gives the six-month entrant freedom from restrictions on movement and nothing else. The right to work in the first six months is not in any operative subsection; it appears in the words of the stamp that Schedule IV Part A prescribes - FREE MOVEMENT SIX MONTHS ENTRY RIGHT TO WORK VERIFICATION REQUIRED - and in regulation 10(15) of the Immigration Regulations, which exempts a national exercising rights under this Act from the work permit requirement. The clearest statement of it, section 13 of the 2022 Act, would have inserted a section 10(2A) giving the spouse the right to work without a work permit, and the President's proclamation left section 13 out. So the spouse's right to work is not in force, and the principal's rests on a stamp and an exemption rather than on a section.
Right of establishment: enforceable, but not where the Act says
Trinidad and Tobago implemented the right of establishment by making the Treaty itself the law, and it is not alone here in doing so. Section 3(1) of the Caribbean Community Act gives the Revised Treaty, printed in full as the Schedule, the force of law; section 8 provides that where the Act and any other law are inconsistent the Act prevails. The Act commenced on 23 May 2005 by Legal Notice 110 of 2005, a date printed on the face of the Chapter. Articles 32 to 37 are therefore directly enforceable here, and against the Immigration Act. Barbados did the same thing in its own Caribbean Community Act, Cap. 15, whose section 3(1) gives the Treaty the force of law and whose First Schedule prints it in full; it also wrote an exemption into section 17(1) of its Immigration Act. Grenada is the contrast: its implementing Act of 2006 was deferred to a Notice apparently never made. What does not work is the mechanism the Immigration Act offers for it. Section 9(1B), inserted in 2005, obliges an immigration officer to admit a national seeking to exercise the right of establishment conferred on him by the Caribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act, and regulation 10(16) exempts the same person from the work permit requirement. There is no Act of that name in the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago. The Act that inserted both references is the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act, Act No. 2 of 2005, which was presumably introduced under the other title and renamed before passage without the cross-references being corrected.
Enhanced cooperation: not a party, and nothing in the statute book
Full free movement among Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines began on 1 October 2025. Trinidad and Tobago is not one of the four, and its domestic law shows it rather than merely failing to mention it. Schedule I of Chapter 18:03 still lists all three of the partner states that are also CARICOM members here, where Belize deleted them from its own equivalent Schedule in 2026. No Act of 2025 or 2026 in the Digital Legislative Library's alphabetical register names free movement or contingent rights. No legal notice in 2024, 2025 or 2026 - 254, 497 and 822 of them respectively - carries either phrase. The most recent immigration instruments the country has made are a doubling of fees and a work permit exemption for holders of Minister's permits, both of which point the other way.
Country-level policy
Every page of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago published on the Ministry of the Attorney General's site carries two lines of its own: UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016. Both are true and both matter. The Law Revision Act makes the Law Revision Commission responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the revised edition; section 5 says the Laws shall be published in loose-leaf form or in such other form as the Commission may determine; section 6 provides that every page must be authorised for inclusion by Order and that every page so authorised, and no other, shall form part of the Laws; and section 15 makes those authorised pages, in all Courts and for all purposes, the proper Statute Book. The web PDFs do not claim to be those pages. Their Current Authorised Pages table has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. and the column is empty. In May 2026 Parliament passed an Act to fix this - the Law Revision (Amendment) Act, which would let the Minister designate a website as the sole official website and make a download from it deemed official and authoritative, prevailing over the loose-leaf where they differ. It was assented on 15 May 2026 and comes into operation on such date as is fixed by the President by Proclamation. No such Proclamation appears among the 822 legal notices of 2026.
Act No. 9 of 2022 was brought into operation on 28 February 2023 by Proclamation, and the Proclamation is partial. It names sections 1 through 10, section 11(a), (b) and (c) limited to the subparagraphs (2)(a) and (2A)(b), section 12, sections 14 through 19, and section 20(a) and (b) as to Schedules III and IV. What it does not name is section 13, which would have given the spouse of a six-month entrant the right to work without a work permit, and it does not name the part of section 20(b) that inserts Schedule V, which prescribes the skills certificate fees of $750 to apply, $400 to renew and $1,000 to replace. The holes line up: section 11(c) was proclaimed only as to the subparagraphs that do not mention Schedule V, so the fee machinery was held back as a piece. The consequence is a live dangling reference - section 7C(2), which is in force, requires an applicant for a replacement certificate to pay the fee prescribed in paragraph (c) of Schedule V, and paragraph (c) has not commenced.
The Immigration (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 revoked and substituted four Schedules to the Immigration Regulations with effect from 1 January 2026. Set against what they replaced, every figure that survived is exactly twice what it was. The work permit application went from TT$600 to TT$1,200 and the monthly charge from TT$450 to TT$900 with the minimum from TT$1,350 to TT$2,700; the Certificate of Residence from TT$400 to TT$800 for a CARICOM national and from TT$1,000 to TT$2,000 for everyone else; the Student's Permit from TT$200 to TT$400; the Visa Waiver from TT$400 to TT$800; the Change of Status from TT$100 to TT$200; ship clearance from TT$100 to TT$200 for the first three hours. One item did not double: the Certificate for Facilitation of Entry, which had cost TT$100 for a CARICOM national and TT$500 for anyone else, was dropped from the Schedule entirely and the remaining items renumbered. The half-rate for citizens of CARICOM countries survived, and its cross-references were correctly updated to the new numbering.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Belize
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«(2) This section applies to a national
who presents on entry to Trinidad and
Tobago, a passport issued by a qualifying
Caribbean Community State, or any other
State together with a certificate issued by
the Government of a qualifying Caribbean
Community State in a form which is of a
nature equivalent to the form prescribed in
Schedule II Part C of Schedule II, certifying that the
national is recognised by the Government
of that qualifying Caribbean Community
State as holding qualifications which
satisfy the conditions for recognition of
Caribbean Community skills qualification.»Quoted as printed: the publisher sets the Schedule II marginal reference inside the text column. This is the six-month limb, and the issuing government is another Member State.
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«Tobago, a passport issued by a Caribbean
Community State, or any other State
together with a certificate issued by the
Government of Trinidad and Tobago in the
Schedule II form set out in Part C of Schedule II,
certifying that the national is recognised
by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago
as holding qualifications which satisfy the
conditions for recognition of Caribbean
Community skills qualification.»The indefinite limb. The only difference from section 3(2) is which government issued the certificate and whether it is in the Schedule II form or merely equivalent to it.
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«(3) For the period of the duration of
the permission under subsection (1), a
person to whom this section applies shall
not be subject to any restriction on freedom
of movement, including the freedom to
leave and re-enter Trinidad and Tobago
without further permission, which would
not apply if that person were a citizen of
Trinidad and Tobago.»The six-month entrant is freed from restrictions on movement and nothing else. The right to work appears on the stamp in Schedule IV and in no operative subsection.
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«(c) any restriction on the right to
engage in gainful employment
or occupation in accordance
with the certificate issued under
subsection (2); or»The indefinite entrant gets employment, residential property and business property as well as movement.
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«(4) Subject to subsection (1), where a
person to whom subsection (2) applies
enters Trinidad and Tobago, that person
No. 9 Immigration (Caribbean Community 2022 5
Skilled Nationals) (Amendment)
shall, within six months from the date of
his arrival, submit to the Minister an
application to have his certificate verified.»The sentence runs across a page break in the publisher's PDF, so the running head of page 5 appears inside the quotation.
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«(6) Where a certificate has been
verified under subsection (5) as being
valid, the holder of the certificate shall
within fourteen days of being notified,
come before the Chief Immigration Officer
to be granted permission to remain in
Trinidad and Tobago for a period to be
determined by the Chief Immigration
Officer.»This is the provision that separates Trinidad and Tobago from Barbados. Verification does not produce indefinite entry; it produces a period the Chief Immigration Officer chooses, on no stated criterion.
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«Stamp to be affixed in passport of a person entering Trinidad and
Tobago for a period of six months
FREE MOVEMENT
SIX MONTHS ENTRY
RIGHT TO WORK
VERIFICATION
REQUIRED»About this source
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«Stamp to be affixed in passport of a person entering Trinidad and
Tobago for a period of indefinite duration
FREE MOVEMENT
INDEFINITE ENTRY
RIGHT TO WORK»About this source
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«QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS DEEMED TO HAVE
BEEN SATISFIED
(a) an artiste;
(b) a musician;
(c) a sports person;
(d) a media worker;
(e) a professional nurse;
(f) a teacher;
(g) an artisan qualified with the Caribbean Vocational
Qualification or equivalent;
(h) a University Graduate;
(i) a holder of an Associate Degree or equivalent;
(j) a domestic worker with Caribbean Vocational Qualifications;
(k) an agricultural worker; or
(l) a security guard.»Twelve categories, which is the full CARICOM list. The five that existed before 2023 were artiste, musician, sports person, media worker and the university graduates reached by section 8.
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«6. Any national— Application for
a Ministerial
(a) of Trinidad and Tobago; or certificate.
[2 of 2005].
(b) of a qualifying Caribbean Community State,
may apply to the Minister for a certificate in the form set out in
Schedule II, with such supporting evidence and accompanied by Schedule II.
the payment of such fees, as may be prescribed by the Minister.»Known to be out of date. Section 8 of Act No. 9 of 2022, in force since 28 February 2023, renumbered this as section 6(1), replaced the words after Schedule II with the words Part C of Schedule II, and added a subsection requiring the application to be on the form in Part A of Schedule II.
Quoted as printed: the marginal note and the Schedule reference sit inside the text column. The point survives the amendment - a national of any qualifying Member State may apply to the Trinidadian Minister for the certificate that earns indefinite entry.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«QUALIFYING CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY STATES
1. Antigua and Barbuda.
2. Barbados.
3. Belize.
4. Dominica.
5. Grenada.
6. Guyana.
7. Haiti.
8. Jamaica.
9. Montserrat.
10. St. Christopher and Nevis.
11. St. Lucia.
12. St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
13. Suriname.
14. Trinidad and Tobago.»Fourteen entries, including Montserrat, which Barbados omits, and Trinidad and Tobago itself, which the definition in section 2 expressly excludes from the expression the Schedule is headed with. Belize, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are still listed, as they are in Barbados and are not in Belize.
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«And whereas it is expedient that sections 1 through 10, section 11(a),
(b), (c) (“(2)(a) and (2A)(b)”), section 12, sections 14 through 19
and section 20(a) and (b) Schedules III and IV of the Act come into
operation:»A partial proclamation. Section 13 and the part of section 20(b) that inserts Schedule V were left out, and section 11(c) was brought in only as to paragraphs (2)(a) and (2A)(b).
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its consolidated Acts are the same edition as the Law Revision Commission's, updated to 31 December 2016, and it labels its own post-2006 versions Unofficial Update; it must not be cited for the current text of any Act. Its Unproclaimed Acts page is captioned Acts not in operation as at December 2015 and must not be read as current. Its download addresses are opaque numeric identifiers with no relation to the Act or Notice number, so an instrument cannot be reached without going through a listing first, and the year filter on the legal notices page works only by HTTP POST - a year in the query string is silently ignored and the current year is served instead, which is how a reading can appear to cover 2023 and in fact cover 2026. Its full-text search returns results in a sidebar without the document, so an apparently empty result is not evidence of absence.
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«do
hereby fix the 28th day of February, 2023, as the date on which sections
1 through 10, section 11(a), (b), (c) (“(2)(a) and (2A)(b)”), section 12, sections
14 through 19 and section 20(a) and (b) Schedules III and IV of the Act
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its consolidated Acts are the same edition as the Law Revision Commission's, updated to 31 December 2016, and it labels its own post-2006 versions Unofficial Update; it must not be cited for the current text of any Act. Its Unproclaimed Acts page is captioned Acts not in operation as at December 2015 and must not be read as current. Its download addresses are opaque numeric identifiers with no relation to the Act or Notice number, so an instrument cannot be reached without going through a listing first, and the year filter on the legal notices page works only by HTTP POST - a year in the query string is silently ignored and the current year is served instead, which is how a reading can appear to cover 2023 and in fact cover 2026. Its full-text search returns results in a sidebar without the document, so an apparently empty result is not evidence of absence.
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«3. (1) Subject to this Act, the Treaty, the text of which is
force of law—
Schedule. set out in the Schedule, shall have the force of law in Trinidad
and Tobago.»Quoted as printed: the marginal note sits inside the text column. The whole Revised Treaty is printed as the Schedule to this Chapter, which runs to 297 pages.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«8. In the event of any inconsistencies between the
with other
legislation. provisions of this Act and the operation of any other law, the
provisions of this Act shall prevail to the extent of the
inconsistency.»Quoted as printed: the marginal note sits inside the text column. This is the provision that makes the Treaty's right of establishment enforceable against the Immigration Act and anything else.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«(a) a national of a Member State who is seeking to
exercise in Trinidad and Tobago the right of
establishment or the right to provide a service
conferred on him by the Caribbean Community
(Movement of Factors) Act;»No Act called the Caribbean Community (Movement of Factors) Act appears in the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago. The Act that inserted this reference was the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act, Act No. 2 of 2005.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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Practical notes
The certificate fees in Schedule V - $750 to apply, $400 to renew, $1,000 to replace - are not in force. The proclamation brought in section 20(a) and (b) only as to Schedules III and IV, and brought in section 11(c) only as to the subparagraphs that do not mention Schedule V. Section 7C(2) of the Act, which is in force, requires a replacement fee to be paid under paragraph (c) of Schedule V, a paragraph that has not commenced.
The CSME booklet the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs publishes says the definite-entry stamp should read FREE MOVEMENT DEFINITE ENTRY - RIGHT TO WORK - VERIFICATION REQUIRED. The words Trinidad and Tobago's own Schedule IV prescribes are SIX MONTHS ENTRY, not DEFINITE ENTRY.
The same booklet says that where the certificate was issued by the host country the national may apply to Immigration for indefinite stay which shall be granted unless refused on Treaty grounds. Trinidad and Tobago's section 3(6) does not say shall be granted; it says for a period to be determined by the Chief Immigration Officer.
Schedule I of Chapter 18:03 lists Trinidad and Tobago as a qualifying Caribbean Community State, while the definition in section 2 defines that expression as a Member State other than Trinidad and Tobago which is listed in Schedule I. The two have contradicted each other since 2003 and the 2022 Act did not touch the Schedule.
This record rests on Chapter 18:03 as published, on Act No. 9 of 2022 in full, on Legal Notice No. 70 of 2023, on Chapter 81:11 including Article 46 of the Treaty as printed there, on section 9 of the Immigration Act and regulation 10 of the Immigration Regulations, on Act No. 2 of 2005, on the Digital Legislative Library's registers of Acts and legal notices, and on the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs' CSME free movement booklet.
- issuesImmigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act No. 9 of 2022)
Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
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The legislature's own site, publishing every Bill and every Act as printed in the Legal Supplement Part A to the Gazette, with the assent date, the Act number, the commencement section and the dates of passage in each House on the face of the document. Files sit under a WordPress uploads path named a<year>-<number>.pdf, sometimes with a g suffix where the Gazette imprint is included. Act No. 9 of 2022 and the Law Revision (Amendment) Act, 2026 were read here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and does not consolidate, so an Act read here is the amending Act and its section numbering is its own rather than that of the law that results. It must never be cited for the current state of a provision. It says nothing about whether an Act whose commencement is left to Proclamation has been proclaimed - for that the Legal Notices are the record - and an Act on this site is therefore not evidence that any of it is in force. The upload directory in the path bears no relation to the date of the Act, so a document cannot be found by constructing its address from the Act number and year.
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- issuesProclamation bringing parts of the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) (Amendment) Act, 2022 into operation (Legal Notice No. 70 of 2023)
Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its consolidated Acts are the same edition as the Law Revision Commission's, updated to 31 December 2016, and it labels its own post-2006 versions Unofficial Update; it must not be cited for the current text of any Act. Its Unproclaimed Acts page is captioned Acts not in operation as at December 2015 and must not be read as current. Its download addresses are opaque numeric identifiers with no relation to the Act or Notice number, so an instrument cannot be reached without going through a listing first, and the year filter on the legal notices page works only by HTTP POST - a year in the query string is silently ignored and the current year is served instead, which is how a reading can appear to cover 2023 and in fact cover 2026. Its full-text search returns results in a sidebar without the document, so an apparently empty result is not evidence of absence.
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- consolidatesImmigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act, Chapter 18:03
Law Revision Commission, Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago · consolidated to 2016-12-31
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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- consolidatesCaribbean Community Act, Chapter 81:11, with the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas as its Schedule
Law Revision Commission, Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago · consolidated to 2016-12-31
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 18:01, with the Immigration Regulations
Law Revision Commission, Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago · consolidated to 2016-12-31
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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- issuesCaribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act, 2005 (Act No. 2 of 2005)
Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its consolidated Acts are the same edition as the Law Revision Commission's, updated to 31 December 2016, and it labels its own post-2006 versions Unofficial Update; it must not be cited for the current text of any Act. Its Unproclaimed Acts page is captioned Acts not in operation as at December 2015 and must not be read as current. Its download addresses are opaque numeric identifiers with no relation to the Act or Notice number, so an instrument cannot be reached without going through a listing first, and the year filter on the legal notices page works only by HTTP POST - a year in the query string is silently ignored and the current year is served instead, which is how a reading can appear to cover 2023 and in fact cover 2026. Its full-text search returns results in a sidebar without the document, so an apparently empty result is not evidence of absence.
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- administersSingle Market and Economy Free Movement - Travel and Work, 3rd Edition
Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago
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The ministry responsible for CARICOM affairs, and the ministry whose Minister issues the Certificate of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills Qualification under section 6 of the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act. It hosts the CSME Unit and publishes the regional free movement handbook and the skills certificate application form covering the twelve categories.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Nothing it publishes is an instrument. Its free movement handbook is the CARICOM Secretariat's account of the regional arrangement and in two places states something Trinidad and Tobago's own statute does not: that the definite entry stamp reads FREE MOVEMENT DEFINITE ENTRY where Schedule IV prescribes SIX MONTHS ENTRY, and that after verification indefinite stay shall be granted where section 3(6) gives the Chief Immigration Officer a period of his own choosing. It must not be cited for what Trinidad and Tobago law provides, only for what the Ministry says the regional arrangement is. Its document addresses are numeric and unstable: the visa requirements table it used to serve at /documents/232/ now returns 404.
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