The Government of Türkiye has canceled mutual visa waiver agreement for all St.Christopher (St.Kitts) and Nevis ordinary passport holders from May 1, 2025, according to Decision no 9782, signed by President Erdogan published in Official gazette.
With the new decision, citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis who hold ordinary passports will be required to obtain a visa to enter Türkiye as of May 1, 2025. St.Kitts citizens are not eligible for eVisas.
The Official website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also confirms “Nationals of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis holding diplomatic or official/service passport are exempted from visa for their travels up to 90 days. Ordinary passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye.”
The MOFA website also quoted, Citizens of St.Lucia, Antigua, Grenada are required to have visas but are eligible to apply for Turkish eVisas. Dominica Ordinary and official passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye.
According to VisaIndex, This move by Turkey comes on the heels of the vote to approve amendments to the European Union visa regulations by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) on March 19, 2025. The proposed amendments target third countries offering citizenship by investment programs.
Turkiye is also one among the countries operating investor citizenship scheme. Turkiye is actively pursuing visa liberalisation dialogue and accession with EU authorities.
Türkiye’s EU accession process was “frozen” by a recent EU vote on May 7. The Turkish government has failed to address fundamental democratic shortcomings, say MEPs in their report.
The EU launched the Visa Liberalisation Dialogue with Turkey on 16 December 2013, based on the Roadmap towards a visa free regime with Turkey for lifting schengen visa requirements. Türkiye has met 65 of the 72 benchmarks of the Roadmap. The negotiations are ongoing to conclude the Agreement between Türkiye and the EU on exchange of personal data between the Europol and the competent Turkish Authorities on fight against serious crimes and terrorism.
The Commission recently strengthened the Visa suspension mechanism (VSM) for abuse of the visa exemption through the operation of investor citizenship schemes by those third countries to counter threats to Member states.
