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Where a treaty gives you residence if your passport is from Barbados

One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 4 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 28 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.

Where it changes for you
4
Where it does not
28
Blocs you are in
3

Where your nationality changes the answer

BelizeVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-05

Barbadian nationals: full free movement, not a Skills Certificate

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Belize is a CARICOM member and gives CARICOM free movement domestic effect through two separate statutes, which is why the answer depends on which passport you hold. The older one, the Caribbean Community (Free Movement of Skilled Persons) Act, Chapter 17:02, is the Skills Certificate regime: a national of a qualifying member state is admitted for six months on arrival, and if they hold a Skills Certificate issued by their own state they may apply within that six months for indefinite stay to work or be self-employed, decided in thirty working days. Once granted, they may not be restricted in movement, in acquiring property, or in working, in any way a Belizean would not be. The newer one covers Barbados, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is not about skills at all - it is full free movement, recorded separately.

DominicaVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-05

Nationals of Barbados: full free movement since 1 October 2025

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Three regimes overlap here and they confer three different things. The CARICOM skills regime, enacted in 1995, gives a certificate holder from a qualifying member state entry for an indefinite period and the same freedom as a Dominican to move, work and buy property - but only if he holds one of the recognised qualifications, which in Dominica still means graduates, artistes, musicians, media workers and sports persons. The OECS Economic Union is different in kind: Dominica gave the Revised Treaty of Basseterre and its Protocol the force of law in 2013, so Article 12's freedom of movement for citizens of Protocol Member States is Dominican law directly, without being transposed into the Immigration Act. And since 1 October 2025 Dominica, Barbados, Belize and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines have operated full free movement among themselves - a fourth thing again, which we can describe from CARICOM and from Belize's implementing Act but not from any Dominican instrument, because none has been published.

Saint LuciaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-05

From Barbados: a skills certificate, but not free movement

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Saint Lucia has implemented more of the regional free movement architecture than any other country in this comparison, and it has dated every piece of it. The Economic Union Treaty and its Protocol have had the force of law here since 18 August 2014, and freedom of movement for citizens of Protocol member states is Article 12 of that Protocol. On the same day a Ministerial Order exempted them from the work permit requirement, and four months later Act 22 of 2014 exempted them from the visitor's driving permit. For the wider Caribbean Community, the Skilled Nationals Act admits a certificate holder for an indefinite period and the Movement of Factors Act of 2006 - in force on the day it was passed, with no commencement Order to wait for - gives a national of a member state the right of establishment, the right to provide services and the right to move capital. Grenada's equivalent Act was never brought into effect and Saint Vincent's has no proclamation on record. Saint Lucia's has a date printed on its face. What Saint Lucia has not done is join full free movement: a Caribbean Community national who is not a skilled national still holds an ordinary permit and still has to extend it, which is exactly what the September 2025 fee-waiver Order assumes.

Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-05

Nationals of Barbados: full free movement since 1 October 2025

written for your nationality by name

The general rule it sits on

Three regimes overlap, and Saint Vincent is the only country in the records here that has legislated for all three - a claim that rests on an absence in Dominica's record, which Dominica's own record marks as possibly the publisher's gap rather than Parliament's. The CARICOM skills regime came first, as Act No. 4 of 1997, and still works by category: hold a recognised qualification, hold a skills certificate, enter. The OECS Economic Union came next: Act No. 22 of 2011 gave the Revised Treaty of Basseterre and its Protocol the force of law and was brought into operation by proclamation on 10 August 2011, so a citizen of another Protocol state is given indefinite stay at the desk. And since 1 October 2025 Saint Vincent has been one of four CARICOM states - with Barbados, Belize and Dominica - operating full free movement, which drops the skills condition entirely. No Dominican instrument for it appears in the published law collection; Saint Vincent's is on the record. Parliament passed two Acts and two statutory orders on 29 September 2025 and the Governor-General assented to them the next day, the day before the regime began.

Where the general rule applies to you unchanged

Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Barbados differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.

Antigua and Barbuda

Moving to Antigua and Barbuda Under the OECS or CARICOM

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time
OECS Protocol Member States in Schedule 1 Part C:
7, including Antigua and Barbuda
OECS member states in Schedule 1 Part B:
6, and Montserrat is not among them
Argentina

Mercosur Citizenship-Based Residency

Duration:
Up to 2 years, renewable
Entries and exits:
Multiple, unrestricted
Income test:
None
Bolivia

Residency Under a Regional Treaty

Blocs Bolivia belongs to:
Andean Community and Mercosur, both as a full member
Temporary stage, either route:
2 years
Permanent stage:
Indefinite, applied for in the 90 days before the temporary permit expires
Brazil

Residency Under the Mercosur Residence Agreement

Temporary residence:
Up to two years
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Conversion to permanent residence:
Applied for in the 90 days before expiry
Chile

Mercosur Reciprocity Residency in Chile

Open to:
Nationals of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Associated states:
Not named by the Chilean migration service for this subcategory
Statutory hook:
Ley 21.325 art. 70 N° 13, reciprocity and treaties
Colombia

Mercosur Residency in Colombia

Costa Rica

No Central American Free Movement, and the Numbers Prove It

Regional residency route:
None
Is Costa Rica in the CA-4 free movement area?:
No
Entry group for Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize:
Second group - no visa, 30 days, extendable to 90
Cuba

No Treaty Route to Residence

Treaty-based residence category:
None
Effect of a visa-waiver agreement:
The visa requirement only
List of visa-waiver countries:
Not published in any instrument read
Dominican Republic

No Free Movement: the Caribbean Country Outside the Caribbean Scheme

CARICOM membership:
Not a member
Treaty-based residence route:
None found
Nationality-based residence category:
None
Ecuador

Treaty Routes: Ecuador Runs Three of Them

Routes the ministry runs:
Mercosur Residence Agreement, Andean Migration Statute, and the Ecuador-Venezuela migration statute
Statutory basis:
Residente por convenio, a category of temporary residence in its own right
Means of support:
Governed by the treaty, not by the ministry's general rules
El Salvador

Central Americans: Free Movement on an Identity Card, and a Shorter Road to Everything Else

Countries in the group:
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Document needed to cross:
Identity card, not a passport
Air travel inside the group:
Also on an identity card, since 1 November 1997
Grenada

Moving to Grenada Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: period granted:
Indefinite
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
OECS Protocol: economic citizens excluded:
Yes, unless the Minister approves the programme
Guatemala

The Central American Route Into Guatemala

Temporary residence needed first:
1 year
Everyone else:
5 years
The test is:
Place of birth, not nationality
Guyana

CARICOM Rights in Guyana: Two Acts, Both Commenced, Both Wired Into the Immigration Act

Where the line falls:
By who issued the certificate, with a statutory route across
Guyana's own certificate:
Indefinite duration of entry
Another member state's certificate:
Six months
Haiti

CARICOM and Haiti: Three Member States Name It in Their Schedules, Four Do Not, and Haiti Names Nobody

Member states whose skills certificate schedule names Haiti:
Barbados, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago
Member states whose schedule does not name Haiti:
Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia
What Haitian law gives a Community national:
Nothing we found
Honduras

CA-4 Moves You Around the Region; It Does Not Let You Settle

Member states:
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Founding instrument:
Convenio de Creación de la Visa Única Centroamericana, signed 30 June 2005, in force 31 August 2005
Who the manual regulates:
People who are not nationals of the four states
Jamaica

Moving to Jamaica from the Caribbean Community

Entry under section 3:
Indefinite period
Entry under section 4:
Not exceeding six months
What distinguishes them in the Act:
Nothing - the conditions are identical
Mexico

Regional and Treaty Routes to Residence

A bloc-wide residence agreement:
None
Mobility instruments:
Recognised, and they lead to a temporary residence or student visa only
Quota:
Each instrument carries its own, and the consulate must check it is not exhausted
Nicaragua

CA-4 and Central American Residence in Nicaragua

What the Single Central American Visa governs:
Third-country nationals, not the four countries' own nationals
What it confers:
Movement. Expressly not residence
Direct permanent residence for Central Americans:
Available, subject to reciprocity
Panama

Panama Has No Bloc Residence Route

Bloc residence route:
None
Nationality-based routes that do exist:
2
Mercosur Residence Agreement:
Not applied by Panama
Paraguay

Mercosur Residency in Paraguay

Countries covered:
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador
Term of the Mercosur temporary residency:
Two years, not renewable
Window to convert to permanent:
The 90 days before the temporary card expires
Peru

Residency Under International Agreements

Temporary stage:
2 years, not extendable
Application window for the indefinite stage:
The 90 days before the temporary residence expires
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Moving to Saint Kitts and Nevis Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Permit to enter and remain for indefinite duration
OECS Protocol Member States:
7, including Saint Kitts and Nevis
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
Suriname

CARICOM Rights in Suriname: the Line Is Drawn at the Labour Market, Not at the Border

Where the line falls:
At labour-market access, with the issuer deciding only whether the Minister issues a certificate or authenticates yours
Duration of entry conferred by the Act:
None; the Act confers no entry right at all
Stay granted at the border in practice:
Six months
The Bahamas

CARICOM and The Bahamas: a Member State With No Free Movement Law At All

Caribbean Community membership:
Yes, by accession in 1983
CSME participation:
No
Skills certificate regime:
Not implemented in Bahamian law
Trinidad and Tobago

CARICOM Movement into Trinidad and Tobago: Who Issued the Certificate Decides

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
Uruguay

Mercosur Residency in Uruguay

Venezuela

Regional Agreements and Residence in Venezuela

Mercosur:
Full member, suspended in all rights and obligations
Andean Community:
Not a member
Residence route for Mercosur nationals under Venezuelan law:
None found