St Kitts and San Marino has signed mutual visa waiver with San Marino on Feb 1, 2019. This was announced by Hon. Mark Brantley, Foreign minister.
According to the agreement, holders of diplomatic, official and ordinary passports are permitted without a visa into the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Republic of San Marino, for a period not exceeding 90 days within a 180 days period.
The brief ceremony took place in New York at the Permanent Mission of San Marino on 1st February 2019, where the Permanent Representatives further discussed areas for bilateral and multilateral cooperation. This step to further strengthen our bilateral relations comes shortly after the two countries established diplomatic relations in September 2018.
San Marino is the fifth smallest country in the world and the second smallest country in Europe, tucked within Italy. San Marino has the smallest population of all the members of the Council of Europe with a population of 33,000.
Delighted that today #StKitts and #Nevis signed mutual visa waiver arrangements with #SanMarino allowing hassle free travel between our two countries. This augurs well for continued people to people contact #DiplomacyMatters pic.twitter.com/e5VA5oXgLW
— Hon. Mark Brantley (@markbrantley3) February 1, 2019
In 2018, St Kitts has established diplomatic relations with San Marino. In 2018, the St Kitts Government signed 10 mutual and diplomatic visa waiver agreements and established diplomatic relations with 4 countries.
The SKN Government is prolific on expanding visa waivers and increasing the passport power for its citizens, aims of making SKN passport, best in the world.
The St Kitts and Nevis citizenship by investment program is the oldest and most popular CIP’s in the world.
As of 2019, SKN passport had visa free travel to 151 countries including Russia, UK, Schengen area etc. St Kitts also ranked third in the latest CBI passport rankings in the Caribbean region for 2019
