{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"LC","name":"St. Lucia","slug":"st-lucia"},"destination":{"code":"BM","name":"Bermuda"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-09-28","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"pass415-bm-2026-controlled-nationalities-required-authorization","title":"Bermuda: current controlled nationalities need qualifying travel authorization","summary":"Listed ordinary visitors need qualifying Canadian, UK or US multiple re-entry authorization. The passport-only baseline remains visa-required, not an assertion that Bermuda issues its own visitor visa.","status":"visa_required","announcedOn":"2026-09-03","effectiveFrom":"2026-09-17","conditions":["Authorization must permit entry and re-entry and remain valid for 45 days after intended Bermuda departure. The separate spouse/belongs Government-letter exception is outside this ordinary visitor baseline.","Immigration guidance additionally requires the passport and MRV to remain valid for 45 days beyond the visitor stay; that is document validity, not permitted stay.","Applicable incorporated UK exceptions remain separate. No work-permit, school-party, residence or special-document exception is generalized; the revoked 2025 work-permit footnote is not carried forward.","The two Ivory Coast names identify one CI passport; Northern Cyprus is outside the catalog. Meeting document requirements does not guarantee admission."],"sourceIds":["pass415-bm-prohibition-entry-order-2026","pass415-bm-september-immigration-announcement","pass415-uk-visitor-exceptions-incorporated-by-bermuda","pass415-bm-entry-visas-document-validity"]},{"id":"bermuda-unlisted-nationals-visa-free-bona-fide-visits","title":"Bermuda: unlisted nationals visa-free for bona fide short visits (historical)","summary":"Section 28 of the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act removes the need for specific permission for a bona fide visitor who fulfils its conditions. Order No. 2 of 2025 supplies the exhaustive nationality exception by prohibiting only the named Schedule nationals. The resulting unlisted ordinary-passport baseline is visa-free, not an ETA, eVisa or visa-on-arrival route.","status":"visa_free","effectiveTo":"2026-09-16","conditions":["This is limited to a bona fide ordinary-passport short visitor whose nationality is not in the current Order No. 2 Schedule; it does not cover special passports, residence, work, study, crew, transit, or individual permission routes.","Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR passport rows follow the Order's express asterisk incorporation: the current UK Immigration Rules exempt PRC nationals holding those specific passports from the visa-national rule.","At landing and throughout the visit, the visitor must not be an exceptionable person and must hold a passenger ticket for departure to a country where the visitor has a right of entry.","The unrestricted period is six months or 180 days, whichever is greater, within a 12-month period, but the Minister may shorten or end it by written notice.","This statutory exemption from specific permission does not guarantee admission; other Immigration Act requirements and final border assessment remain applicable."],"sourceIds":["bermuda-immigration-protection-act-1956-consolidated","bermuda-prohibition-entry-no2-order-2025","uk-home-office-current-visitor-visa-national-exceptions"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"pass415-bm-prohibition-entry-order-2026","title":"Bermuda Immigration and Protection (Prohibition of Entry) Order 2026, BR 99/2026","url":"https://www.bermudalaws.bm/Laws/Consolidated%20Law/2026/Bermuda%20Immigration%20and%20Protection%20(Prohibition%20of%20Entry)%20Order%202026","publisher":"Bermuda Laws Online / Minister of Economy and Labour","jurisdiction":"Bermuda","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"pass415-bm-september-immigration-announcement","title":"Immigration Updates: new visa-controlled-national Order announced","url":"https://www.gov.bm/news/immigration-updates","publisher":"Government of Bermuda Ministry of Economy and Labour","jurisdiction":"Bermuda","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"pass415-uk-visitor-exceptions-incorporated-by-bermuda","title":"Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor: Visa national list, VN 2.2(a)-(b)","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-visitor-visa-national-list","publisher":"UK Home Office","jurisdiction":"United Kingdom","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"pass415-bm-entry-visas-document-validity","title":"Bermuda entry visas: passport and multiple re-entry visa validity","url":"https://www2.gov.bm/articles/bermuda-entry-visas","publisher":"Government of Bermuda Department of Immigration","jurisdiction":"Bermuda","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"bermuda-immigration-protection-act-1956-consolidated","title":"Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1956 (current consolidated law)","url":"https://www.bermudalaws.bm/Laws/Consolidated%20Law/1956/Bermuda%20Immigration%20and%20Protection%20Act%201956","publisher":"Bermuda Laws Online","jurisdiction":"Bermuda","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"bermuda-prohibition-entry-no2-order-2025","title":"Bermuda Immigration and Protection (Prohibition of Entry) (No. 2) Order 2025, BR 59/2025","url":"https://www.bermudalaws.bm/Laws/Consolidated%20Law/2025/Bermuda%20Immigration%20and%20Protection%20%28Prohibition%20of%20Entry%29%20%28No.%202%29%20Order%202025","publisher":"Bermuda Laws Online / Minister of Economy and Labour","jurisdiction":"Bermuda","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"uk-home-office-current-visitor-visa-national-exceptions","title":"Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor: current visa-national exceptions","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-visitor-visa-national-list","publisher":"UK Home Office","jurisdiction":"United Kingdom","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}