St. Lucian's and Dominican nationals UK visa's waived
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2011 | 1:06 PM
Nationals of St. Lucia and Dominica wishing to travel to the United Kingdom will not be required to obtain a visa. But at the same time they will be required to be in possession of a machine readable passport by mid 2012.
The announcement was made yesterday by St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Stephenson King at a press conference.King, said his administration is working towards meeting the 2012 deadline for the complete elimination of hand written travel documents.
Just over a year ago, London announced plans for a waiver visa test for St. Lucia and Dominica assessing the risks nationals of these two Eastern Caribbean countries posed to the United Kingdom in terms of illegal immigration, crime and security.
The former labour administration had written to both governments on the issue indicating that nationals from St. Lucia and Dominica had been identified as posing a sufficiently high risk.