{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"BS","name":"The Bahamas","slug":"the-bahamas"},"destination":{"code":"PR","name":"Puerto Rico"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"us-territories-bahamian-preclearance-visitor-no-visa","title":"Federal territories: Bahamian preclearance visitor no-visa route","summary":"The federal regulation creates a route-conditioned visitor no-visa exception for Bahamian nationals inspected by a U.S. immigration officer in the Bahamas before or at embarkation.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["A passport is required. Before or at embarkation on a vessel or aircraft, the traveller must satisfy the examining U.S. immigration officer in the Bahamas that they are clearly and beyond doubt otherwise admissible.","This is not an unqualified waiver: other origins, travel modes, work, residence, transit and final admission remain outside the policy."],"sourceIds":["us-ecfr-current-nonimmigrant-document-requirements"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"us-ecfr-current-nonimmigrant-document-requirements","title":"8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants","url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-212/section-212.1","publisher":"eCFR, Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security","jurisdiction":"United States","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}