Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an archipelagic state in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, situated southeast of Saint Lucia and northwest of Grenada, with no land frontiers .

The State became party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1993—with a reservation to Article IV of the 1967 Protocol, joined in 2003—thereby accepting core international protection standards; it acceded to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons in 1999, but is not a party to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. No domestic asylum or statelessness legislation has been enacted. In the absence of national procedures, individuals expressing a fear of return are registered and have their status determined by the UNHCR’s Honorary Liaison through a local partner, with regional offices making final decisions; there is no formal appeal mechanism or dedicated reception centre, and asylum-seekers are routinely detained upon arrival under general immigration rules.