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Information about moving to, living or retiring in Jamaica – including visas, working, healthcare and driving.

• Updated: 13 January 2026

FCDO travel advice for Jamaica. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 10 December 2025

• Warnings and insurance

  Hurricane Melissa Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a major hurricane in…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  Terrorism There is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting UK…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

Support for Jamaican nationals returning from the UK (reintegration services).

• Updated: 5 December 2025

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Jamaica for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 12 April 2023

Twelve-person team of GPs, nurses, midwives, and logistics experts are in Jamaica with first clinics opening today

• Updated: 17 November 2025

Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK

• Updated: 2 June 2023

Statement by the UK's Ambassador for Human Rights to the UN, Eleanor Sanders, at Jamaica's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

• Updated: 12 November 2025

Information and advice if a friend or family member has been a victim of murder, manslaughter or has died in suspicious circumstances in Jamaica.

• Updated: 22 September 2020

• Updated: 1 January 2005

• Updated: 1 January 2005