Trav­ellers en­ter­ing and leav­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be re­quired to com­plete im­mi­gra­tion ar­rival and de­par­ture cards on­line as au­thor­i­ties pre­pare to re­place the long-stand­ing pa­per-based sys­tem used at the coun­try’s ports of en­try.

A no­tice is­sued by the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty to stake­hold­ers in­di­cates that the On­line Ar­rival and De­par­ture Card Plat­form is sched­uled to go live on March 17.

Asked for con­fir­ma­tion yes­ter­day, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der said the min­istry will host a press con­fer­ence this morn­ing to pro­vide fur­ther de­tails on the ini­tia­tive.