I know that a foreigner can stay for 6 months, but is this 6 months total in a year or can you leave for a few days and return?

You can apply for an extension in Mo Bay (it is the closest I ever found). You need a passport that is still valid and will not expire in the amount of time that you are asking, there is a fee, and you may have to prove that you have enough money to sustain you time, and proof of your address while in Jamaica. They will also ask you why you want to stay, and a battery of other questions.

I have friends who just booked a cheap flight to Florida (via cheap Spirit Airlines) and then returned. That is another way.

I believe that you can leave for a day and return.

Imagine if we started to accept refugees from up north.

We did after the American revolution. Royalists where welcomed and assisted in patenting land by contributions from the public purse.

One Mr Frog, a tailor from Charleston was given land on the Black River. When he complained of the swampy and croc risk area he was heard by the powers that were.

Thanks to Dr John Cross for the above info.

if you are of jamaican parent you can get unconditional landing. go to the immigrations in kingston and take your parents birth certicate
and you should be cool, along with your passport.

do you know how long this process takes for your child to get landed in Jamaica. Once you have done the above

Jamaica do not say Landed. That is the Canaidan thing.I think it is permanent resident like the good old USA> Just guessing. Please get it from the Authorities.

Canada if you are in Canada go to the nearest Jamaican Consulate and they can help you with the process

Canada, You may get Jamaican citizenship for a child of Jamaican lineage who was born outside of Jamaican soil. You can do so at the Jamaican Consulate nearest to your home if you reside abroad. It takes over a year to receive a response, I have been waiting in excess of one year five months. As stated above; you can get an unconditional landing for a child of Jamaican parent(s) in Kingston and you receive it the same day provided you have all the necessary documents. Best of luck!

Thanks so much hooked on TB, they told me 6 months to a year to get my daughter landed in Jamaica. Will try and make it to Kingston.

Make sure you get ALL the correct information from the Canadian High Commission BEFORE you proceed. When I lived there with my daughter (Jamaican father, but she was born in Canada), her father and I were married and living in Jamaica with our child. To avoid having to leave with her every 6 months, or getting extensions to stay in Jamaica, I looked into her getting "landed" status. In Kingston, I was advised that I would have to surrender her Canadian passport to proceed with landed status. For travel we could get her a Jamaican Passport.
That, to me seemed like a bad thing to do. She has more ability for travel, etc. in her life with Canadian citizenship and passport. Make sure you get all the correct info so that you do not compromise the child's Canadian status and priviledges.

That is very good advice Canadian also. Is it possible to have dual citizenship with Canada and Jamaica? That is what I have being a citizen of both Jamaica and America.

By unconditional landing I mean no limit on the amount of time you are permited to stay in the country. Citizenship by lineage is a separate issue. Canada, when you use the term "landing", what do you mean? Want to make sure we are speaking about the same thing. I was in Kingston last year where they were willing to give my five year old "an unconditional landing" without any stipulations of surrendering documents. She is a US citizen, and currently awaiting her Jamaican citizenship while residing in the US. for further clarification you may contact Jamaican authorities

Immigration, Citizenship & Passport Division
25c Constant Sprin Road
Kingston 10
tel:876-906-1497
876-906-5092
876-906-5249
Fax: 876-906-4372
Citizenship by descent 876-908-0142 Mrs. Spencer's desk. hope all goes well.

Hi Rebecca

Yes, it is possible to have dual citizenship. If born in Canada, the only way to lose your citizenship is to request to have it cancelled.

Canadian also, I would have been very nervous about that. It doesn't seem like you were given the correct or full information

I am a british citizen living in jamaica for a long time now, and i always travel all over with out any problem until the last two times, they bug me in montego bay air port, i am of jamaican parentage, so i went to immigration in kingston and now have unconditional landing with out any problem, all i did was produce my ()doc).
me never born ya but me orn ya. jha know jamaica nice.

I would like to get dual citizenship (US & Jamaica).
I am a US citizen by birth. I am married to a Jamaican but we currently reside in the US. We own land in Jamaica.

I need to be living in Jamaica for how long to apply?

courious, this is a number for the Jamaica Consular General in New York City 212-935-9000
if you are near this area. there is also a website but i am not sure what it is.

Hi curious, do you have jamaican parent.

Curious, I would suggest you either contact the nearest Consulate General of Jamaica to your home in the US or contact the Immigration, Citizenship and Passport Division in Kingston as I listed earlier on this thread.

Thank you all.

I do not have a Jamaican parent.

I am married to a Jamaican. We do own land in Jamaica.

Am I eligible for dual citizenship?

Do I have to be living in Jamaica ?(I plan to eventually spend the winter in Jamaica and summer in the US.

Curious, I was married to a Jamaican, and own land in Jamaica, and still had to come and go, or get extensions (I do not have a Jamaican parent, and I did not go for dual citizenship). However, people like Rebecca, have made a living in Jamaica, and put in their hard work and time getting to know and love the country, and then become dual citizens. I still remember how proud Rebecca looked in the pictures from her citizenship ceremony aposted a while back! As stated by her earlier in this thread, she has dual citizenship (US/Jamaican)

Curious, this is for you:
JA Consulate General
767 3rd Avenue
New York, NY 10007
4,5,6,7 Trains into Grand Central Station
Exit on Lexington Avenue
Walk over to 3rd Avenue
Corner of 48th Street

I have friends who work there, so if you need assistance, please don't hesitate to say so.

Thanks you so much Cuz>

Hi curious,just wanted to tell you what we were told by the friendliest immigration officer ever at Mo Bay in Feb.I am a UK citizen married to a Jamaican born UK citizen.My husband asked about unconditional landing and,as has been mentioned previously,was told just to go to Kingston with his birth certificate and his passport would be stamped unconditional.When I asked where I stand as his wife, she said I am entitled to the same rights as my husband. We plan eventually to spend longer periods in Jamaica so this proved to be brilliant advice.Hope that helps.

Yes that is very help full. Thank you so much Englang girl.

We are going to the Jamaican Embassy in Miami this week (I accidently washed my step son's passport). He needs a new one to go a yard and spend the summer with his mother.

I'll ask about it there.

england girl, do you have jamaican parent, if so you cool girl.

My daughter was born in the us both me n her father are jamaicans how do i go about apply for an unconditional landing? and by obtaining the this does she loose her us citizenship or does she has dual citizenship

I don't have the answers to your other questions but I can say both the US and Jamaica allow dual citizenship. I know as I am a dual citizen!

No I just got ours done.All you have to do it go in to kingston with your jamaican passport and your child us passport and birthpaper two passport pictures and the form filled out and noterize if your are married make sure you bring it along with you and 500.000 ja dollars that the fee for each person for ja citizenship it take six week to get it I hope this will help.

im a canadian permanent resident. i am thinking of getting a dual citizenship with jamaica is that possible?i was born in jamaica. so were my parents but my dad is now a canadian.