North and Central America and Caribbean

Insurance

 

We recommend that you obtain comprehensive travel and medical insurance, which includes medical evacuation, before travelling.  You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for all the activities you want to undertake.  Be especially careful about cover for recurring illnesses as they may not be include in all insurance policies.  For more general information see Travel Insurance.

If things do go wrong when you are oversees then this is How We Can Help.

Registration

Register with our LOCATE service to tell us when and where you are travelling abroad or where you live abroad so our consular and crisis staff can provide better assistance to you in an emergency.  More information about registering with LOCATE can be found here.

  

Package Holidays

 

If you are on a package holiday, you must travel on the specified return date.  If you fail to do so it is likely that you will have to pay for a return ticket yourself.

 

Passports

 

Keep a copy of the photo page of your passport and relevant entry stamp in case your documents are stolen.

 

In the event of loss of your passport, you will need to apply to the Passport Office at the British High Commission, Barbados for a replacement.  The British Honorary Consul in St Kitts can advise you how to do this.  Urgent applications  are sent to Bridgetown by courier, incurring courier costs, but even so the issue of a replacement passport will still take several days.