The aim of the document is to make travel easier for CARICOM citizens from the participating states: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Each country would have to pass legislation to make CARIPASS legal.
The CARIPASS will allow CARICOM citizens and legal residents of participating states over the age of 16 years to access a safe and secure automated self-processing gate within selected airports.
Cardholders will benefit from the ease of expedited processing through immigration checkpoints when using the CARIPASS, which is the size of a credit card.
A statement from the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown said, “The CARIPASS will also assist the region in the global fight against identity theft and illegal migration, given that the document is matched to the cardholder using both biometric and biographic data captured upon enrolment.”
The document is another step in the movement towards standardized border control facilities within CARICOM, including training, entry and exit procedures and travel documents.
For more information, visit www.caripass.org.
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