As of May 2023, Jamaican citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 103 countries and territories, ranking the Jamaican passport 47th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley visa restrictions index.

[2] Jamaica began issuing biometric passports, also known as e-passports, to Jamaican citizens on March 31, 2023.

The visa pages are blue and contain images of the coat of arms, an ackee plant, and a red-billed streamertail, the national bird of Jamaica.

These passports have an embedded chip encoded with the bearer's biographical data, including facial image.

The switch to electronic passports brings the Jamaican travel document in line with "more than 150 countries that use E-passports, including 11 of its CARICOM neighbours," according to PICA's CEO Andrew Wynter.