Increase in Immigration Fees to go into effect October 1, 2025
The department advises that amendments to various immigration-related fees, as outlined in the Immigration and Passport Amendment Regulations, 2025, dated June 30, 2025, will take effect on October 1, 2025.
All applications submitted on or after October 1, 2025, will be subject to the revised fees.
These adjustments are part of the department's ongoing efforts to ensure the sustainability of its operations.
The Cabinet, exercising the power conferred by Section 49 of the Immigration and Passport Act, Revised Edition 2013, established these regulations.
Based on the Immigration and Passport (Amendment) Regulations, 2025, which came into effect on June 27, 2025, the fees prescribed in Regulation 10(b) for Schedule 3, Part IV, will come into force on October 1, 2025.
Fee hike
The new fees are as follows:
1. Application for Residence and Belonger Status: - Processing fee: $250 - Grant fee: $2,500 (previously $500)
2. Certificate of Residence: - Grant fee: $1,500 (previously $300)
3. Replacement of a Card or Certificate: $50
4. Review of Residence: $150
5. Regularisation of Minors for Residence: $150
6. Special Consideration Fees: $10,000 - $20,000
After-hours service fees!
7. Services Rendered by the Department of Immigration under Regulation 26(3):
Between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., or at any time on Sundays or public holidays, for carriers (vessels or aircraft): - $20 per hour for each immigration officer (for vessels or aircraft carrying fewer than 15 passengers) - $50 per hour for each immigration officer (for ferries, vessels, or aircraft carrying 16 or more passengers)
Landing & Entry Permits
8. Extension to Landing Permit: - First Extension: $50 - Subsequent Extensions: $100 - All Extensions for Children or Spouses of a BVIslander/Belonger: $25
9. Entry Permit: - Issuance of Entry Permit Form & Stamp: $50 - Extension of Entry Permit: $50 - Duplicate Entry Permit Form: $50
10. Application for Business Visitor Permit (Work Permit Exempt under Labour Code Order 2017 & 2024): $100
11. Application Fee for all Requests to Reside: $100
12. Extension to Approval of Request to Reside: $50
13. Conditional Permit Application Fee: $100
14. Request for Entry Without a Valid Entry Permit (Extenuating Circumstances): $50
15. Request for Extension Letter for Previously Endorsed Child (Section 18(4) of the IPA): $250
16. Application Fee for Appeal to the Immigration Appeals Board: $850
17. Immigration Services – Late/Early Clearances (Regulation 26(3)): - $20 per hour for each immigration officer (for vessels or aircraft carrying fewer than 15 passengers) - $50 per hour for each immigration officer (for ferries, vessels, or aircraft carrying 16 or more passengers)
18. Special & Remote Clearance Services: - VIP/Jet Facility for members of the House of Assembly, their spouses, and visiting government officials (no cost to utilize the facility) - Zone 1 (up to 10 pax, Tortola, Virgin Gorda - Valley): $500 - Zone 2 (up to 10 pax, JVD, Peter Island, Norman Island, Cooper Island): $800 - Zone 3 (up to 10 pax, Virgin Gorda – North Sound, Saba Rock, Mosquito Island, Necker Island): $2,000 - Zone 4 (up to 10 pax, Anegada): $1,000 - Each additional traveler (up to 25 pax): $100 - Each additional traveler (up to 149 pax): $50 - VIP/Jet Facility at Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport: $15 per pax
19. Request for Documents, Reprint of Documents, or Copies: $10 per document
20. Work Permit Card: $75 21. Application for Reissue of Work Permit Card: $75
22. Non-Refundable Bond (Repatriation Fee): - Non-Belonger Entity: $250 - Locally Owned Entity: $250
When asked for a comment on the fee increase, Mrs Nadia Demming-Hodge, the Acting Chief Immigration Officer and Director General of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Immigration Department, stated that any official information regarding the fee increase would be communicated through the Government of the Virgin Islands.
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11 Responses to “Increase in Immigration Fees to go into effect October 1, 2025”
you & me can pay 50 cents however the rich folks comes into this territory and 500 dollars
Back in the days you could have purchased peace of Land for a modest sum of money now with the so called real estate companies the price of land in BVI out of your reach
This is high day r@&3 and the weak AgCIO cannot answer a simple question. This is ridiculous. God send help.
You see, when our former Premiers and Trade Ministers discouraged certain industries from conducting business here, many of us saw those actions as xenophobic, instead of what they were about , the securing of the country for the future of our people!
We have now had a few college grads for leaders, and now, if you're not deep pocketed, or is tied to families with large land -holding interests, land ownership, is out of the reach for many of our people!
Oh, how our ancestors are turning over in their graves,; for the mistakes of a few, have affected the futures ,of so many!