Barbados

Requisite Documents and Fees

Name: Barbados

Tourist / Business

• Indian Nationals require a visa to enter Barbados.
• Visa can be obtained from the Barbados High Commission in London, UK or Washington, USA.
• For obtaining the visa from London, the personal presence of the traveler is required unless he is a well-traveled and frequent visitor or a commercially important person.
• It can also be obtained on arrival at the Grantley Airport with prior written confirmation. For this, the traveler must send advance information to the address mentioned below with details of the passport, date of arrival, flight number and destination. This is conveyed to the Grantley Airport so that the passport is endorsed on arrival.
• The validity and fee for the visa varies, but it can be processed the same day if the application is submitted in the morning.
  
  

Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade

1 Culloden Road, St.Michael,
Barbados, W.I.
BB14018
Tel: (246) 431-2200
Fax: (246) 429-6652 / (246) 228-0838
Email: barbados@foreign.gov.bb.bb

Or Documents can be sent by Federal Express, DHL or LIAT Quikpak with a Prepaid Return International Airway Bill to the following address:

Barbados Immigration Department:
Careenage House, Wharf Road, Bridgetown,
Barbados
Tel: (246) 4344100
Fax: (246) 4260819
E-mail ID: imm-dept@caribsurf.com

OR Grantley Adams International Airport
Christ Church,
Barbados
Tel: (246) 4184180
Fax: (246) 4207180
E-mail: imm-dept@caribsurf.com

The following mentioned documents must be sent for visa:

• Copies of passport pages with endorsements (STAMPS/VISAS etc.)
• 2 Visa Forms duly filled and signed by the traveler (photocopy allowed).
• Two recent passport size photographs.
• Covering letter from the applicant stating his name, designation, passport number, purpose, duration of visit and bearing a return address.
• Persons residing in a country other than their place of birth must submit proof of legal resident status in the adoptive country.
• Marriage certificate (for persons seeking to visit on honeymoon).
• If Employed an Employment letter must be enclosed.
• Visa processing takes 10 working days approximately.

Kindly call the above mentioned telephone numbers or the given e-mails to get the current Visa Fee.

Transit

• Passengers in transit from Airport to Cruise terminal and vice versa do not required Visa.
• Regular passengers transiting at Barbados to another destination within 12 hours, such passengers are treated as Direct Transit Passengers and will be accommodated in the arrival terminal until he/she is escorted to the departure lounge for his/her onward flight.

Seamen

• Seamen arriving at airport and transiting to vessel within 12 hours do not need visa.
• However, in the case where over-night stay is necessary, a visa must be obtained.