CARICOM / OECS libre circulación (estado de subciudadanía)
Ciudadanía en Granada
- Elegibilidad
- CARICOM Mercado Único (Tratado de Chaguaramas Revisado) y OECS La Unión Económica (Tratado de Basseterre revisado) confiere libertad de circulación y derechos nacionales cualificados a los granadinos y a los nacionales de los Estados miembros SIN conferir la nacionalidad granadina. Estado de subciudadanía; no conduce a la nacionalidad.
- Plazo
- n/a
Resumen
CARICOM Single Market (Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas) and OECS Economic Union (Revised Treaty of Basseterre) confer free-movement and skilled-national rights to Grenadians and to nationals of member states WITHOUT conferring Grenadian nationality. Sub-citizenship status; does not lead to nationality.
Plazos
Timeline: n/a. Document burden: low. Required: none of residency/language/presence/renunciation.
Base jurídica
Primary statute: Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas; Revised Treaty of Basseterre. Operative 2006-01-01–present. Authority: CARICOM Secretariat; OECS Commission.
Escenarios de ejemplo
Los escenarios de ejemplo se muestran en inglés.
nationality: Trinidadian (CARICOM national)
Free movement and labour-market access available — but it does NOT confer Grenadian nationality.
The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (CARICOM Single Market) grant Grenadians and member-state nationals free-movement and skilled-national rights WITHOUT conferring Grenadian nationality (GD-BIL-01: sub-citizenship status; pathway_to_nationality = false). The Trinidadian can live and work in Grenada under free movement, but to acquire nationality he must use a Grenadian nationality route — e.g., s.5 Commonwealth registration after 5 years (Trinidad and Tobago is Commonwealth) or s.7 naturalisation.
nationality: Grenadian
CARICOM/OECS status confers movement and economic rights only; it preserves her Grenadian nationality and confers no separate CARICOM nationality or passport.
GD-BIL-01 is treaty_rights, sub-citizenship status: rights_conferred = movement freedom, labour-market access, economic rights; preserves_original_nationality = true; pathway_to_nationality = false. There is no 'CARICOM citizenship' as a nationality — the treaties confer enforceable free-movement/skilled-national rights, not a passport or naturalisation pathway.
nationality: Barbadian (Commonwealth/CARICOM)
Residence accrued under free movement can count toward the s.5 Commonwealth registration 5-year residence test (Barbados is Commonwealth) — but the nationality comes from s.5, not from the treaty itself.
Free movement (GD-BIL-01) is the lawful basis for the residence, but it does not itself lead to nationality. The actual nationality route is Cap 54 s.5 (Commonwealth/Irish registration after 5 years' residence). A Barbadian is a Commonwealth citizen, so the 5 years of free-movement residence supports a s.5 registration application (EC$250). The treaty supplies residence rights; s.5 supplies the citizenship.
nationality: Trinidadian (CARICOM)
No — CARICOM (CSME) free movement confers movement, labour-market and economic rights only, not political/citizenship rights such as voting; those require Grenadian nationality.
GD-BIL-01's rights_conferred are movement freedom, labour-market access, and economic rights — it is sub-citizenship status that does NOT confer nationality (pathway_to_nationality false). Political rights like voting attach to Grenadian citizenship/registration on the electoral roll, not to treaty free-movement status. The Trinidadian would need to acquire Grenadian citizenship (e.g., s.5 Commonwealth registration after 5 years) to gain such rights.
Resumen informativo recopilado a partir de fuentes legales primarias: no es asesoramiento jurídico. La ley de ciudadanía cambia; verifica con la autoridad competente antes de actuar. Verificado por última vez el 2026-06-14.
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