Where you can go as a visitor if your passport is from Suriname

The general rule it sits on

Six months, and it is the statute that says so rather than an officer. The Immigration and Passport Act 2014 defines a bona fide visitor as a person arriving for a period of not more than six months, and section 24 requires the visitor to hold an onward ticket, to take no gainful occupation, to behave and to be able to maintain themselves and their dependants throughout. Beyond that the Act splits travellers into classes: a citizen of any member state of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States gets six months as of right, a citizen of an OECS Protocol state enters with no limit on time at all, a national of a CARICOM member state named in Schedule 1 gets six months, and an EU service provider gets a period that depends on what kind of service provider they are. An extension is a separate application to the Chief Immigration Officer, and since 2023 a visitor who intends to stay on for work, study, marriage or retirement must formally change status instead.

The general rule it sits on

A tourist is admitted for up to 90 days and can extend once by up to 180 further days, and South Americans start at 180 days with another 180 available - numbers that were rewritten on 14 July 2025 by a protected-areas law that also amended the migration statute. Most of the ministry's own pages still quote the old rule of 90 days within a year extendable by 90, so the published guidance and the statute disagree, and the statute is the one that governs. Most Western nationalities need no visa; a published ministry list names the nationalities that do.

The general rule it sits on

The Immigration Act gives an immigration officer two lengths and nothing in between: a permit of up to three months for most nationalities, and six months for a national of one of the thirteen countries in Part B of its Schedule I - the Commonwealth Caribbean plus Suriname and Montserrat, and without Haiti. Either can be extended, but only up to three years from the date of entry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs works to shorter numbers than the Act allows: a visa issued on arrival runs one month and may be extended twice by a month each, at US$25 a time. Which passports need a visa is published as a numbered list of 71 countries and territories, which is a real list rather than a search box; the trap is that the same page carries a second list, for where Guyanese may travel without a visa, and losing the headings turns the two into one. Separately, every alien aged sixteen or over who enters must register with the police within three days.

The general rule it sits on

Jamaica runs two entry statutes side by side, and which one you meet depends on whether your country is in the Commonwealth. A Commonwealth citizen is dealt with under the Immigration Restriction (Commonwealth Citizens) Act, which lets an immigration officer grant leave for up to twelve months and caps extensions at twelve months from the date of entry. Everyone else is an alien under the Aliens Act, which sets conditions for being let in at all - support for yourself, a work permit if you mean to work, a visa unless there is a mutual abolition agreement - and then leaves the length of stay entirely to whatever conditions the officer attaches. There is no six-month ceiling for aliens in the Aliens Act. The Agency publishes one anyway: it tells travellers that non-Commonwealth citizens get a maximum of six months, and that figure has no counterpart in the statute, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure does. Whether you need a visa is answered by a full country-by-country table, dated entry by entry, which is more than most of the region publishes. One entry on it is worth reading twice: Haiti is a member of the Caribbean Community and its ordinary passport holders need a Jamaican visa.

The general rule it sits on

Trinidad and Tobago answers the visa question by rule rather than by list. Regulation 13(5) of the Immigration Regulations requires a visa in the passport of everyone seeking to enter; regulation 13(8) then takes the requirement away from citizens of Commonwealth countries, from nationals of countries with which Trinidad and Tobago has concluded Visa Abolition Agreements, and from two classes of transit passenger. Regulation 13(11) puts it back for the countries in the Second Schedule, and that Schedule names four: Cuba, Macedonia, North Korea and Vietnam. There is no statutory period of stay for a visitor. Section 9(1) of the Immigration Act lets an immigration officer admit tourists or visitors on such conditions and for such periods as may be fit and proper in the particular case, and the certificate the officer issues carries whatever period he wrote on it. Extending it means submitting to a fresh examination even though you are already in the country. A stay longer than one year requires a medical certificate on Form 40 before entry. Visas are now bought online: the Immigration Division charges TT$800 for a multiple-entry visa, which is the figure the Seventh Schedule to the Regulations has prescribed since 1 January 2026.