A Barbadian national is eligible for more ease with Freedom of Movement in the Caribbean Community-bloc, and therefore may be entitled to the similar rights as other CARICOM citizens.

[23] Nationals may be deprived of their status through acts of treason or disloyalty, criminal offences, fraud in a naturalisation application, or performing services for a foreign military or government.

[9] The indigenous Arawak and Carib peoples had disappeared from the island when the Portuguese sailor, Pedro a Campos, landed on Barbados in 1536.

[29] In 1627, eighty settlers and ten slaves, led by William Courten, established a colony on the leeward side of the island.

[25] During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the royal patent which had been issued by Charles I was suspended in 1652, when Oliver Cromwell's forces took control of the island.

[31] The highly stratified society, separated by race, was significantly further divided by class distinctions with landowning elites dominating power structures.

[50] The uniform law, which went into effect on 1 January 1915, required a married woman to derive her nationality from her spouse, meaning if he was British, she was also, and if he was foreign, so was she.

[53] The statute reiterated common law provisions for natural-born persons born within the realm on or after the effective date.

[54] For those born abroad on or after the effective date, legitimacy was still required, and could only be derived by a child from a British father (one generation), who was natural-born or naturalised.

[57] Because of a rise in statelessness, a woman who did not automatically acquire her husband's nationality upon marriage or upon his naturalisation in another country, did not lose their British status after 1933.

[58] The 1943 revision allowed a child born abroad at any time to be a British national by descent if the Secretary of State agreed to register the birth.

The federation was unable to develop a unified nationality scheme, as member states tended to identify with their specific island, rather than by region.

[62] Statutes passed by the Barbadian parliament after 1960, transformed the economy, earning the country the confidence of the international monetary market.

[68] The Domicile reform had implications for nationality as it no longer required married women to have the same permanent residence as their spouse.

[70] Barbados Minister of Home Affairs, Edmund Hinkson announced in 2020 that proposals to reform the Immigration Act were being drafted and should be considered by Parliament in 2021.