CARICOM Passport is a passport document issued by 15 member states of the Caribbean Society (CARICOM) for its citizens. It can be used both for intra-regional and international travel. Passports were created to facilitate intra-regional travel; however, OECS citizens who are citizens of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines may use the issued Member State License, national identity card, voter registration card or social security card to travel in the OECS region.
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In early 2009, twelve member states have introduced CARICOM passports. These countries are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Lucia Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. CARICOM members who have not issued public passports are Bahamas, Haitians, and Montserrat. Since Montserrat is Britain's Foreign Territory, Montserrat citizens became full-fledged citizens of the United Kingdom in 2002, so that public passports are unlikely to be introduced to them.
CARICOM passports create an awareness that CARICOM citizens are citizens of the Community, as well as certain countries.
Passport design
Passport all members have the same color scheme:
- Dark blue for civilians,
- Green for government officials, and
- Red for diplomats.
In the case of Suriname, the passport is emblazoned with a national symbol for the Republic of Suriname, as well as the CARICOM badge on its cover. President of the Republic of Suriname Ronald Venetiaan received the first of this new CARICOM passport.
The design of Antigua and Barbuda is to display the state and country symbols, as well as the CARICOM logo.
Passports to Suriname are made by Canadian Banknote Company Ltd (CBN) under a five-year program with a price tag of US $ 1.5 million. Believed other CARICOM member countries will now soon follow with the introduction of their own version of the national 'CARICOM' passport.
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History
On Friday, January 7, 2005, the Republic of Suriname became the first full member country to officially launch the new block "CARICOM Passport". New passports boast better security and also machine readability. The full Member States of the Caribbean Community have agreed to establish a common passport to make intra-regional and international travel easier for its citizens. Passports are also considered to be saving additional costs for member countries by using the same cover design, the design will also follow the new international standards updated on the design of the passport.
The second country that released the national CARICOM passport is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: SVG began issuing new CARICOM passports around April 2005. On October 25, 2005, Kitts and Nevis became the third CARICOM member state to bring CARICOM passports into operation. , kept his promise to launch it before the end of the year and began issuing the document to its citizens on November 14, 2005.
Antigua and Barbuda announced that they will begin using the new CARICOM passport format in mid 2005.
St. Lucia proposed introducing a public passport in early 2007 and actually introducing it on January 16, 2007.
Trinidad and Tobago announced that they would begin issuing new CARICOM passports in June 2006, and then indicated that they would introduce their passports in July 2006 with Guyana, but only introduce passports on January 24, 2007.
Grenada plans to start publishing a public passport in mid-2006, but began publishing it on January 29, 2007.
Barbados had planned to switch to a general format at the end of 2006, but was later proposed to introduce it on December 31, 2007. Barbados launched a new public format passport on October 1, 2007.
Guyana also announced that it would start using the new CARICOM passport format in mid-2005, but the introduction was postponed and a new target date was set in July 2006. However, Guyana finally officially launched its passport on July 13, 2007.
Jamaica is expected to institute passports by the end of 2007; However, this deadline is over, and Jamaica is then expected to introduce a passport in January 2009, finally launching a passport on January 2, 2009.
Belize is expected to introduce a passport on December 31, 2007 after the current stock runs out, but Belize finally introduced a passport on March 17, 2009. In doing so Belize became the twelfth and final state on CSM to introduce passports and its introduction is the reason why Belize people have trouble updating or get a new passport when the Belize Ministry of Immigration and National Security awaits the arrival of a new travel document.
Introduction in the future
The hope is that all member countries will introduce CARICOM passports in 2008 when their old passport stock is exhausted. This deadline is missed a year, and in 2009 all CSME participating countries have introduced the design of a public passport.
The Bahamas had not yet launched a machine-readable passport, and instead launched a passport e on December 5, 2007.
Montserrat is not expected to change the design of his passport because the island is a British overseas territory.
Passport Ranking
Passport rankings based on the number of countries and territories that can be visited by the holder without a visa or by obtaining a visa upon arrival in 2018 are as follows:
Gallery general design passport CARICOM
See also
- CARIPASS
- Commonwealth Citizens
References
Note
- " ' What is the destination that the Caricom passport provides? ' ". Jamaica Observer . January 30, 2013 . Retrieved February 10 2012 .
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