Do­mini­ca is rein­tro­duc­ing on­line em­barka­tion and dis­em­barka­tion forms as it aims to stream­line the en­try process for vis­i­tors. First in­tro­duced in 2023, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Dis­cov­er Do­mini­ca Au­thor­i­ty, the ini­tia­tive now goes back in­to ef­fect to­day, Oc­to­ber 18th. Phys­i­cal ED cards are still be­ing ac­cept­ed as the sys­tem tran­si­tions to be­ing ful­ly on­line.

Vis­i­tors to the is­land can sub­mit their de­tails on the on­line ED card form avail­able at https://ed­card.do­mini­ca.gov.dm. Once the form is sub­mit­ted, they will re­ceive con­fir­ma­tion and a QR code which must ei­ther be print­ed out or saved on a mo­bile de­vice to present at the port of en­try along with their pass­port. The form should be sub­mit­ted no more than three (3) days be­fore trav­el to Do­mini­ca.

Tourism Di­rec­tor Mar­va Williams said, “by in­tro­duc­ing on­line im­mi­gra­tion forms, we are tak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step to­wards mod­ern­iz­ing our trav­el process­es and en­hanc­ing the over­all vis­i­tor ex­pe­ri­ence. We be­lieve this ini­tia­tive will sim­pli­fy en­try in­to Do­mini­ca and show­case our com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing ex­cep­tion­al ser­vice to our guests.”

Sev­er­al Caribbean na­tions of­fer on­line em­barka­tion/dis­em­barka­tion forms in­clud­ing Bar­ba­dos, St Lu­cia, St Kitts & Nevis, and Ja­maica. Trinidad & To­ba­go still us­es phys­i­cal forms al­though there are plans for on­line forms to be in­tro­duced. On Sep­tem­ber 30th Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert an­nounced the gov­ern­ment’s plan for a le­gal team to be­gin work­ing on the frame­work for dig­i­tal dis­em­barka­tion/em­barka­tion cards. The project is ex­pect­ed to be­gin in 2025.