Barbadian nationality law

Barbadian Citizenship Act
Parliament of Barbados
Long title An Act relating to Barbadian citizenship
Enacted by	Government of Barbados
Status: Current legislation

Barbadian nationality law is regulated by 1966 Constitution of Barbados, as amended; the Barbados Citizenship Act, as amended; and various British Nationality laws. ^{[1] [2] [3]} These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Barbados. Barbadian nationality is typically obtained under the rules of jus sanguinis , i.e. by birth to a father or in some cases, a mother, with Barbadian nationality. It can also be granted to persons with an affiliation to the country, or to a permanent resident who has lived in the country for a given period of time through naturalisation. ^[4] There is currently no program in Barbados for citizenship by investment, though they do have a special work visa program. ^[5] Nationality establishes one's international identity as a member of a sovereign nation. ^[6] Though it is not synonymous with citizenship, rights granted under domestic law for domestic purposes, the United Kingdom, and thus the Commonwealth, has traditionally used the words interchangeably. ^[7]

Acquiring Barbadian nationality

Barbadians may acquire nationality through birth, naturalisation, or registration. ^[8]

By birth

Birthright nationality applies to:

• Persons who were nationals of Britain (Citizens of the UK and Colonies) or were naturalised or registered in Barbados at the time of independence; ^[9]
• Persons born within the territory after 29 November 1966 to at least one Barbadian parent, which is interpreted to include a mother only, in the case of illegitimacy, as long as the parents were not immune from legal processes, or an enemy alien; ^{[10] [9] [11] [Notes 1]}
• Persons legitimately born abroad after 29 November 1966 to a father who was born in Barbados; or if illegitimate to a Barbadian-born mother; or ^{[9] [12] [Notes 2]}
• Persons born upon an aircraft or ship which is registered in Barbados or an unregistered aircraft or ship belonging to the government. ^[13]

By registration

Nationality by registration includes those who have familial or historic relationship affiliations with Barbados. ^[14] Persons who acquire nationality by registration include:

• Foundlings who have always been stateless and were born in the territory; ^[12]
• Adoptees at the issuance of an adoption order for a minor, but if it is a joint adoption, the child can only derive nationality from the father; ^[3]
• Persons who before 30 November 1966 were Commonwealth nationals and who had lived in Barbados for seven years; ^[15]
• Persons who are nationals of other Commonwealth countries or Ireland and who have lived in Barbados or worked in government service for at least five years; ^{[16] [17]}
• Women who were married to a national who acquired nationality at the time of independence, or but for death would have acquired nationality, upon taking an Oath of Allegiance; ^{[9] [Notes 3]}
• Post-independence, the wife of a national who acquired nationality after independence, provided she resides with her husband and takes an Oath of Allegiance; or ^{[9] [18]}
• Minor children of any national, at the discretion of the Minister for Immigration. ^[19]

By naturalisation

Ordinary naturalisation in Barbados can be obtained by adult persons of legal capacity, who in the 12 months prior to submitting an application resided in the territory, are of good character, and intend to be a resident of the territory. ^[20] Residency of a minimum of five years is required. ^[21] Applicants petition the Minister for Immigration, who evaluates whether the general criteria are met and whether the applicant poses a threat to national security or public policy. ^[9] Upon approval, applicants must take an Oath of Allegiance. ^[22]

Loss of nationality

Barbados allows its nationals to voluntarily renounce their nationality if they are possessed of 21 years of age and legal capacity. They must verify that they have other nationality, which is not derived from a country in a state of war with Barbados. Renunciation may not be allowed if such action would pose a threat to the nation. ^[23] Nationals may be deprived of their status through acts of treason or disloyalty, criminal offences, fraud in a naturalisation application, or performing services for a foreign military or government. ^[24]

Dual nationality

The constitution of 1966 recognised dual nationality. ^[9]

History

Colonial period (1536–1966)

The indigenous Arawak and Carib peoples had disappeared from the island when the Portuguese sailor, Pedro a Campos, landed on Barbados in 1536. British sailors claimed to have landed there in 1620, but it was not claimed by England until 1625. ^[25] In Britain, allegiance, in which subjects pledged to support a monarch, was the precursor to the modern concept of nationality. ^[26] The Crown recognised from 1350 that all persons born within the territories of the British Empire were subjects. ^[27] Those born outside the realm – except children of those serving in an official post abroad, children of the monarch, and children born on a British sailing vessel – were considered by common law to be foreigners. ^[28] Marriage did not affect the status of a subject of the realm. ^[29] In 1627, eighty settlers and ten slaves, led by William Courten, established a colony on the leeward side of the island. ^[25] During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the royal patent which had been issued by Charles I was suspended in 1652, when Oliver Cromwell's forces took control of the island. Upon restoration of the monarchy the patent holders agreed to exchange their patent, in 1660, for an entitlement to export fees, and Barbados passed into the realm of the crown. ^[30]

Unlike other colonial powers with slave societies in the Caribbean, the British did not have a single slave code. Each British colony was allowed to establish its own rules about the slave trade, and a code was established for Barbados in 1661. ^[31] The highly stratified society, separated by race, was significantly further divided by class distinctions with landowning elites dominating power structures. ^[32] By the late 18th century, the cultural model included in descending power, British Europeans; other Europeans; Euro-creole, people of European descent born on the island; free coloured persons; Afro-creole, people of African descent who were born and acculturated in Barbados; and recently arrived Africans. ^{[33] [34]} Married women were subjugated to the authority of their husbands under coverture, and the law was structured to maintain social hierarchies by regulating familial matters like, who could marry, legitimacy, and inheritance. ^{[35] [36]} Children in slave societies followed the status of the mother, thus if she was free her children would be free or if she was in bondage, her children would also be bound. ^[37]

Other than common law, there was no standard statutory law which applied for subjects throughout the realm, meaning different jurisdictions created their own legislation for local conditions, which often conflicted with the laws in other jurisdictions in the empire. ^{[38] [Notes 4]} Nationality laws passed by the British Parliament were extended only to the Kingdom of Great Britain, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ^{[27] [41]} In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, barring the Atlantic slave trade in the empire. ^[42] The Act did not abolish slavery, which did not end until the 1833 Emancipation Act went into effect in 1834. ^{[43] [44]} Under its terms, slaves were converted into apprentices and remained bound to their former owners for four years if they had worked in the home and for six years if they had been field labourers. ^[45] The system was difficult to administer and apprenticeship for all former slaves ended in Barbados in 1838. ^[46] Though free, there was never a British plan to give former slaves a voice in Parliament, leaving them as British subjects in a highly stratified system of rights. ^[47] Denied political and economic rights, former slaves were not entitled to formal recognition as nationals by other nations. ^[48]

In 1911, at the Imperial Conference a decision was made to draft a common nationality code for use across the empire. ^[49] The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914 allowed local jurisdictions in the self-governing Dominions to continue regulating nationality in their territories, but also established an imperial nationality scheme throughout the realm. ^[50] The uniform law, which went into effect on 1 January 1915, required a married woman to derive her nationality from her spouse, meaning if he was British, she was also, and if he was foreign, so was she. ^{[51] [52]} It stipulated that upon loss of nationality of a husband, a wife could declare that she wished to remain British and provided that if a marriage had terminated, through death or divorce, a British-born national who had lost her status through marriage could reacquire British nationality through naturalisation without meeting a residency requirement. ^[53] The statute reiterated common law provisions for natural-born persons born within the realm on or after the effective date. By using the word person, the statute nullified legitimacy requirements for jus soli nationals. ^[54] For those born abroad on or after the effective date, legitimacy was still required, and could only be derived by a child from a British father (one generation), who was natural-born or naturalised. ^[55] Naturalisations required five years residence or service to the crown. ^[56]

Amendments were enacted in 1918, 1922, 1933 and 1943 changing derivative nationality by descent and modifying slightly provisions for women to lose their nationality upon marriage. ^[57] Because of a rise in statelessness, a woman who did not automatically acquire her husband's nationality upon marriage or upon his naturalisation in another country, did not lose their British status after 1933. ^[58] The 1943 revision allowed a child born abroad at any time to be a British national by descent if the Secretary of State agreed to register the birth. ^[58] Under the terms of the British Nationality Act 1948 British nationals in Barbados were reclassified at that time as "Citizens of the UK and Colonies" (CUKC). ^[59] The basic British nationality scheme did not change overmuch, and typically those who were previously defined as British remained the same. Changes included that wives and children no longer automatically acquired the status of the husband or father, children who acquired nationality by descent no longer were required to make a retention declaration, and registrations for children born abroad were extended. ^[60]

In 1958, Barbados joined the West Indies Federation. ^[59] The federation, which included Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, and Trinidad and Tobago, was typically seen by its supporters as a means to use a federal structure to gain national independence and eventual recognition as a Dominion. The federation was unable to develop a unified nationality scheme, as member states tended to identify with their specific island, rather than by region. ^{[30] [61]} Jamaica withdrew from the federation in 1961 and that year Barbados became self-governing. ^{[61] [8]} Despite attempts by Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago to keep the federation together, it collapsed in 1962. ^[62] Statutes passed by the Barbadian parliament after 1960, transformed the economy, earning the country the confidence of the international monetary market. ^[63] The political and financial stability of the nation, led to an Independence Conference with the British government ^[64] and Barbados gaining full independence as of 30 November 1966. ^[8]

Post-independence (1966–present)

Generally, persons who had previously been nationals as defined under the classification of "Citizens of the UK and Colonies", in the 1948 Nationality Act, would become nationals of Barbados on Independence Day. Exceptions were made for persons to retain their British nationality and status if they (or their father or grandfather) were born, naturalised, or registered in a part of the realm which remained on 1 November part of the United Kingdom or colonies, had been annexed by such a place, or was a British protectorate. Divergences from the 1948 Act included that CUKCs by descent only acquired Barbadian nationality if their father was born in Barbados and that women retained or lost their Barbadian nationality based upon their spouse's status and were prohibited from maintaining British status as registered wives, if their spouse lost his CUKC status. ^{[8] [Notes 5]} From independence forward, women who married Barbadian men could choose to register for Barbadian nationality. ^[65]

Both the Constitution of 1966 and the 1966 Citizenship Act made distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children. In 1979, the Status of Children Reform Act eliminated the common law status of illegitimacy for children born after 1 January 1980. ^{[66] [67]} Other changes enacted, like the Domicile Reform Act 1980, giving married women the choice of where they lived; Income Tax Amendment Act 1980, granting women separate tax assessment; and Married Persons Act 1980, allowing married women to acquire property and bring suit by her own right for her property, removed gendered legal inequalities that still existed under coverture in Barbadian law. ^[68] The Domicile reform had implications for nationality as it no longer required married women to have the same permanent residence as their spouse. ^[69] Constitutional amendments in 2000 removed some of the gendered provisions; however, as of 2017, gender imbalances in the Constitution were still present and neither the amendment of 2019 nor 2020 rectified nationality inequality. ^[70] Barbados Minister of Home Affairs, Edmund Hinkson announced in 2020 that proposals to reform the Immigration Act were being drafted and should be considered by Parliament in 2021. ^[71] The ideas under discussion would broaden eligibility for nationality through descent to grand parents and great-grandparents, change length of residency requirements, and provide provisions for broader acquisition of permanent residency. ^{[72] [73]}

Notes

1. Unwed Barbadian fathers may not pass nationality to their children, according to section 10(2) of the Constitution. ^[11] Married Barbadian men have no restrictions on where they were born for their children to derive their nationality. ^{[11] [12]} For a Barbadian woman to pass her nationality to her illegitimate child, she must have been born in Barbados. ^[12]
2. If the mother of a child born abroad is married to a foreign man, her children are unable to derive her nationality unless she was born in Barbados. ^[12]
3. Foreign men who are married to Barbadian women are not allowed to derive nationality from a Barbadian spouse by registration. ^[3]
4. For example, in Barbadian law, slaves were considered to be part of the real estate. ^[39] As Britain had no slave code and a person could not be land in common law, a slave taken from Barbados to England and later wrongfully taken created debate as to how damages for taking were to be assessed. Chamberlain v. Harvey questioned whether slaves were marketable chattel, or whether trespass laws were violated, finally settling on a statute per quod servitium amisit dealing with the interference of an apprenticed labourer so as to render them unable to perform services to their employer. ^[40]
5. Fransman states, "CUKC women generally retained or lost that citizenship [status] if or when the husband did and the registration entitlement contained in s 6(2) of the BNA 1948 was withdrawn from women whose husbands ceased to be CUKC on 30 November 1966 or who would have so ceased had they lived". ^[8]

See also

• Barbados National Pledge
• British nationality law
• Citizenship
• Nationality law

References

Citations

1. Fransman 2011, p. 837.
2. Belton 2020, p. 1.
3. Equal Nationality Rights & Institute on Statelessness 2017, p. 4.
4. Belton 2020, pp. 2–3, 5.
5. Peddicord 2020.
6. Fransman 2011, p. 3.
7. Fransman 2011, p. 4.
8. Fransman 2011, p. 848.
9. Fransman 2011, p. 850.
10. Belton 2020, p. 3.
11. Equal Nationality Rights & Institute on Statelessness 2017, p. 3.
12. Belton 2020, p. 4.
13. Fransman 2011, p. 851.
14. Belton 2020, p. 8.
15. Fransman 2011, p. 849.
16. Belton 2020, pp. 16–17.
17. Elkins, Ginsburg & Melton 2021, p. 4.
18. Elkins, Ginsburg & Melton 2021, pp. 4–5.
19. Official Gazette 1982.
20. Belton 2020, pp. 6–7.
21. Belton 2020, p. 6.
22. Belton 2020, p. 7.
23. Belton 2020, p. 23.
24. Belton 2020, pp. 25–26.
25. Watson 1979, p. 4.
26. Fransman 2011, p. 129.
27. Fransman 2011, p. 130.
28. Fransman 2011, p. 131.
29. Baldwin 2001, p. 525.
30. Fransman 2011, p. 847.
31. Bush 1993, pp. 422, 433.
32. Watson 1979, pp. 31, 34.
33. Watson 1979, p. 72.
34. Jones 2003, pp. 214–215.
35. Lazarus-Black 1992, pp. 875, 877.
36. Elvy 2015, pp. 104–106.
37. Cousins 1935, p. 37.
38. Baldwin 2001, p. 526.
39. Wiecek 1974, p. 91.
40. Wiecek 1974, pp. 89–91.
41. Home Office 2017, p. 8.
42. Kelley 2020, p. 29.
43. May 1845, p. 7.
44. Morgan 1999, p. 1.
45. Latimer 1964, p. 52.
46. Campbell 1974, p. 21.
47. Cooper 2018, pp. 58–60.
48. Cooper 2018, p. 61.
49. Fransman 2011, p. 145.
50. Baldwin 2001, p. 527.
51. Llewellyn-Jones 1929, p. 123.
52. Fransman 2011, p. 151.
53. Baldwin 2001, p. 528.
54. Fransman 2011, p. 148.
55. Fransman 2011, pp. 150–151.
56. Fransman 2011, p. 155.
57. Fransman 2011, p. 149.
58. Fransman 2011, p. 163.
59. Fransman 2011, p. 814.
60. Fransman 2011, pp. 175–176.
61. Vasciannie 2016.
62. Knight 1989, p. 39.
63. Cox-Alomar 2004, pp. 674–675.
64. Cox-Alomar 2004, p. 683.
65. Georgetown University 2011.
66. Fransman 2011, pp. 848–849.
67. Cumberbatch 2017.
68. Denis 2003, p. 169.
69. Anderson 2003, pp. 34, 64.
70. Equal Nationality Rights & Institute on Statelessness 2017, pp. 3–4; Constitution Amendment 15 2019; Constitution Amendment 16 2019; Constitution Amendment 2020.
71. Alleyne 2020.
72. Alleyne 2019.
73. Sieh 2021.

Bibliography

• Alleyne, George (7 January 2020). "Barbados' Immigration Joy for New Yorkers". Caribbean Life. Brooklyn, New York. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• Alleyne, George (21 November 2019). "Nationality law changes are coming". Barbados Today. Bridgetown, Barbados. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• Anderson, Winston (2003). "2. Connecting Factors" (PDF). Elements of Private International Law. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randall Publishing. p. 34-103. ISBN   978-976-8167-38-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2021.
• Baldwin, M. Page (October 2001). "Subject to Empire: Married Women and the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act". Journal of British Studies . Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 40 (4): 522–556. doi:10.1086/386266. ISSN   0021-9371. JSTOR   3070746. OCLC   4637986477. PMID   18161209. S2CID   5762190 . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
• Belton, Kristy A. (April 2020). "Comparative Regional Report on Citizenship Law: Anglophone Caribbean" (PDF). cadmus.eui.eu. Badia Fiesolana: European University Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
• Bush, Jonathan A. (December 1993). "Free to Enslave: The Foundations of Colonial American Slave Law". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law School. 5 (2): 417–470. ISSN   1041-6374. OCLC   8091556650. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
• Campbell, P. F. (1974). An Outline of Barbados History. Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Graphics. OCLC   1583208.
• Cooper, Frederick (2018). Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-17184-5.
• Cousins, Winifred M. (January 1935). "Slave Family Life in the British Colonies: 1800–1834". The Sociological Review. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. 27 (1): 35–55. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.1935.tb01925.x. ISSN   0038-0261. OCLC   4798438910. S2CID   145215529. – via  SAGE Publishing (subscription required)
• Cox-Alomar, Rafael (October 2004). "An Anglo‐Barbadian Dialogue: The Negotiations Leading to Barbados' Independence, 1965–66". The Round Table Commonwealth Quarterly. Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis. 93 (377): 671–690. doi:10.1080/0035853042000300160. ISSN   0035-8533. OCLC   6894637847. S2CID   144761484. – via  Taylor & Francis (subscription required)
• Cumberbatch, Jeff (3 September 2017). "Musings: When Is a Man Single?". The Barbados Advocate . Fontabelle, Barbados. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
• Denis, Ann (2003). "Chapter 8: A Gendered Analysis of the Impact on Women's Work of Changing State Policies in Barbados". In Barrow-Giles, Cynthia; Marshall, Don D. (eds.). Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. pp. 165–183. ISBN   978-976-637-148-7.
• Elkins, Zachary; Ginsburg, Tom; Melton, James (9 February 2021). "Barbados's Constitution of 1966 with Amendments through 2007" (PDF). Constitute. Austin, Texas: Comparative Constitutions Project. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• Elvy, Stacy-Ann (May 2015). "A Postcolonial Theory of Spousal Rape: The Caribbean and Beyond Beyond". Michigan Journal of Gender and Law. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Law School. 22 (1): 89–167. ISSN   1095-8835. OCLC   8091574551. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
• Fransman, Laurie (2011). Fransman's British Nationality Law (3rd ed.). Haywards Heath, West Sussex: Bloomsbury Professional. ISBN   978-1-84592-095-1.
• Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights; Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (2017). "Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 29thSession of the Universal Periodic Review: Barbados". uprdoc.ohchr.org. New York, New York: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
• Jones, Cecily (June 2003). "Contesting the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Sexuality in Barbadian Plantation Society". Women's History Review . Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis. 12 (2): 195–232. doi: 10.1080/09612020300200355 . ISSN   0961-2025. OCLC   4901613228.
• Kelley, Sean M. (2020). "Precedents: The 'Captured Negroes' of Tortola, 1807-22". In Anderson, Richard; Lovejoy, Henry B. (eds.). Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. pp. 25–44. ISBN   978-1-58046-969-2.
• Knight, Franklin W. (1989). "Chapter 1: Regional Overview". In Meditz, Sandra W.; Hanratty, Dennis Michael (eds.). Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Regional Study (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 1–42. OCLC   18907861.
• Latimer, James (Winter 1964). "The Apprenticeship System in the British West Indies". Journal of Negro Education . Washington, D.C.: Howard University. 33 (1): 52–57. doi:10.2307/2294514. ISSN   0022-2984. JSTOR   2294514. OCLC   5545420065 . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
• Lazarus-Black, Mindie (1992). "Bastardy, Gender Hierarchy, and the State: The Politics of Family Law Reform in Antigua and Barbuda". Law & Society Review . Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. 26 (4): 863–899. doi:10.2307/3053821. ISSN   0023-9216. JSTOR   3053821. OCLC   5544358063 . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
• Llewellyn-Jones, Frederick (1929). "The Nationality of Married Women". Transactions of the Grotius Society. London: Grotius Society. 15: 121–138. ISSN   1479-1234. JSTOR   742756. OCLC   5544683551 . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
• May, Samuel Joseph (1845). Emancipation in the British W. Indies: An Address Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church in Syracuse, on the First of August 1845. Syracuse, New York: J. Barber, Liberty Intelligencer Office. OCLC   841410417.
• Morgan, Kenneth (1999). "The Tudway of Wells Antiguan Estate Papers 1689–1907: In Somerset Record Office" (PDF). East Ardsley, West Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
• Peddicord, Kathleen (27 July 2020). "Five New And Improved Residency And Second Passport Options—How The Covid-19 Pandemic Is Changing The Global Residency And Citizenship-By-Investment Marketplace". Forbes . New York, New York. ISSN   0015-6914. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
• Sieh, Rodney (19 January 2021). "Nationality Law Change Could See Barbados Grant Citizenship to Descendants of Settlers in Liberia". FrontPage Africa . Monrovia, Liberia. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• Vasciannie, Stephen (25 June 2016). "Jamaica's Brexit: Remembering the West Indian Federation". Jamaica Observer . Kingston, Jamaica. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
• Watson, Karl S. (1979). The Civilised Island, Barbados: A Social History, 1750–1816. Ellerton, Barbados: Caribbean Graphic Production Ltd. OCLC   8612281.
• Wiecek, William M. (Autumn 1974). "Somerset: Lord Mansfield and the Legitimacy of Slavery in the Anglo-American World". The University of Chicago Law Review . Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Law School. 42 (1): 86–146. doi:10.2307/1599128. ISSN   0041-9494. JSTOR   1599128. OCLC   5544348151 . Retrieved 29 March 2021.
• "Barbados Constitution of 1966". Political Database of the Americas. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University. 5 July 2011. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• "Citizenship Act, Cap. 186 (last amended 1982)". Refworld. Bridgetown, Barbados: Official Gazette. 1 March 1982. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• "Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2020" (PDF). Barbados Parliament. Bridgetown, Barbados: Official Gazette. 13 January 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• "Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2019–15" (PDF). Barbados Parliament. Bridgetown, Barbados: Official Gazette. 4 April 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• "Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2019–16" (PDF). Barbados Parliament. Bridgetown, Barbados: Official Gazette. 4 April 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
• "Historical Background Information on Nationality: Version 1.0" (PDF). Home Office . London: Government of the UK. 21 July 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
• Government of Barbados, Constitution, Chapter 2
• Barbados Law: CHAPTER 190 IMMIGRATION (1979 version), UNHCR
• On acquiring citizenship, Barbados Advocate, 14 January 2010