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Ministry of Homeland Security of Trinidad and Tobago - Immigration Division

Applies the rule

The ministry that applies the Immigration Act. It took the immigration portfolio from the Ministry of National Security, whose address now redirects here. Its pages set out the work permit process, including the requirement that applications for one to nine permits go through the TTBizLink portal and that applications for ten or more use a single group form, the eVisa and eStudent Permit services with the fees charged for each, the list of countries whose citizens do not require entry visas, and the passport fees and documents.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

homelandsecurity.gov.tt/divisions/immigrationdivision

Cannot be cited for

It states practice and not law. Its visa-free list carries no date on its face - only the upload directory in its address - and two different lists are served from the site at once, a longer one from February 2024 and a shorter one from September 2024, with nothing saying which supersedes which. Neither includes the United States or any European Union state, so neither is a complete answer to who needs a visa, and the exemption those travellers use is in regulation 13(8)(b) for countries with Visa Abolition Agreements, which the Division does not publish. Its statement that full-time registered students of the University of the West Indies at St Augustine do not require student permits appears in no instrument. The link it labels Immigration Act of Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 18:01 on its work permit page does not serve the Act: it serves Legal Notice No. 493 of 2025, the fee regulations. Its Minister's Permit page publishes weekly collection lists and no statement of what is required to obtain one.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Static service pages changed without notice and without a revision date; collection lists posted weekly.

Re-check triggers

a new visa-free country list replacing the September 2024 one · a change to the eVisa or student permit fees away from the Fourth and Seventh Schedules · the registrant card or work permit exemption guidance changing as the 2026 Order approaches expiry · any page appearing about CARICOM skills certificates or free movement

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