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

Applies the rule

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.

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.

foreign.gov.vc/foreign

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.

Re-check every

45 days

Publication rhythm

The CSME pages were built for 1 October 2025 and carry a 2026 copyright line; otherwise static.

Re-check triggers

a further state joins full free movement · CARICOM amends the Protocol on Enhanced Cooperation or the Protocol on Contingent Rights · a revised information note is posted

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