Jamaican passport
The Jamaican passport is the travel and identification document for Jamaican citizens. It is issued by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) in Kingston, which handles all applications, including those from Jamaicans living abroad. Jamaica issues CARICOM passports as a member of the Caribbean Community.
A standard passport has 48 pages and a blue cover. On the front is Jamaica’s Coat of Arms in gold, with the CARICOM logo above and the words “JAMAICA Passport” and the e-passport symbol below. The visa pages feature the coat of arms, an ackee plant, and the Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (the national bird), with the CARICOM CC logo in the bottom corner inside.
Security features include microprinting, holograms, UV images, latent images, watermarks, and more. The holder’s photo and signature are digitally added to the biodata page, which ends with the machine readable zone.
Jamaica began issuing biometric, or electronic, passports on March 31, 2023. These e-passports have an embedded chip with the holder’s biographical data and photo, and they are still 48 pages long. As of May 2023, Jamaican citizens could travel visa-free or with visa on arrival to about 103 countries, ranking 47th in travel freedom. E-passports align Jamaica with more than 150 countries that use electronic passports, including several CARICOM neighbors.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 10:12 (CET).