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The Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) (Amendment) Order 2025

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2025-03-07

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Made: 7th March 2025

Laid before Parliament: 12th March 2025

Coming into force: 13th March 2025

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 41 and 166(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and extent

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(1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) (Amendment) Order 2025.

(2) This Order comes into force on 13th March 2025.

(3) This Order extends to the United Kingdom.

Amendment to the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014

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(1) The Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014[^f00002] is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1 (countries or territories whose nationals or citizens need transit visas), at the appropriate place, insert “Trinidad and Tobago”.

Transitional provision

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Nothing in article 2 applies in respect of a national or citizen of Trinidad and Tobago transiting through the United Kingdom who—

(a) arrives in the United Kingdom on or before 23rd April 2025, and

(b) before the date this Order comes into force already held a booking for that journey.

Signed

Seema Malhotra — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Home Office — 7th March 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2702) which requires certain passengers to hold a transit visa to pass through the United Kingdom without entering whilst transiting to another country.

Schedule 1 to that Order sets out a list of countries or territories whose nationals or citizens need transit visas, and this Order adds Trinidad and Tobago to that list.

Article 3 of this Order contains a transitional provision to disapply the requirement for a transit visa to people who at the time this Order comes into force had already booked travel to the United Kingdom to arrive on or before 23rd April 2025 and arrived on or before that date.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector or community bodies is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1999 c. 33.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/2702, amended by S.I. 2015/657, S.I. 2015/1534, S.I. 2022/524, S.I. 2023/824, S.I. 2023/980, S.I. 2024/922 and S.I. 2024/1218.

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