ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell will ship the function handle on the third Council of Immigration Ministers from the Group of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) on Wednesday.
The 2-day assembly, which can even be addressed by ECS Director Common Dr. Didacus Jules, will focus on key points, together with enhancing border safety personnel’s capability, addressing environmental catastrophe impacts, implementing the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) Arrest Warrant Treaty and Mannequin Invoice, and enacting Advance Passenger Info (API) and Passenger Identify File (PNR) laws for well timed passenger knowledge.
The API and PNR are passenger knowledge airways and governments use to handle and establish vacationers.
As well as, the assembly can even focus on the implementation of the free motion regime and the OECS Coverage on Rights Contingent on the Proper to Freedom of Motion, which grants residents the precise to remain, work, and entry to companies indefinitely with out discrimination.
The regime is a core part of the Japanese Caribbean Financial Union (ECEU), which was established on June 18, 2010, underneath the Revised Treaty of Basseterre (RTB).
In Might 2011, OECS leaders determined to grant a number of advantages related to shifting individuals to their residents and qualifying relations inside the ECEU.
These embrace indefinite keep, whereby OECS residents can stay in any protocol member state indefinitely and obtain an indefinite keep stamp upon arrival, and hassle-free journey, which permits residents to journey inside the ECEU with a legitimate government-issued image ID reminiscent of a driver’s license, nationwide identification card, or voter card.
As well as, OECS residents may drive inside any protocol member state utilizing a legitimate driver’s license issued by their residence nation. OECS residents and their third-country spouses can work in these states with out a work allow.
The OECS teams the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Montserrat.