{"id":5,"date":"2017-11-23T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadtobago\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:32:44","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to funding limitations, as of 31 August 2025, the UN Refugee Agency closed its physical office in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Operations are managed remotely from UNHCR\u2019s Multi-Country Office in Panama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&nbsp;wish&nbsp;to receive general information about the asylum procedures in Trinidad and Tobago, or if you are already an asylum seeker or refugee in Trinidad and Tobago and you have questions about procedures and services or you want more information, you can send a message to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:PANPAMCOPRC@unhcr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PANPAMCOPRC@unhcr.org<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;with concerns, questions and comments that you may have.&nbsp;Please note that&nbsp;registration services are no longer available due to the office closure. If you want to close your case or are planning to leave the country, please contact&nbsp;registration-mcop@unhcr.org<strong>\u202f<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your personal information is confidential and will not be shared with third parties without your prior consent,&nbsp;with the exception of&nbsp;UNHCR\u2019s partner organizations that may provide protection or&nbsp;assistance, if necessary. Under no circumstances will UNHCR share your personal data with the authorities of your country of origin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to funding limitations, as of 31 August 2025, the UN Refugee Agency closed its physical office in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Operations are managed remotely from UNHCR\u2019s Multi-Country Office in Panama.&nbsp; If you&nbsp;wish&nbsp;to receive general information about the asylum procedures in Trinidad and Tobago, or if you are already an asylum seeker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":118,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/trinidadandtobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}