Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Phillip Paulwell has officially received a visitor’s visa from the United States Embassy in Kingston, more than two years after it was initially revoked. 

Paulwell, immediate past chairman of the People’s National Party (PNP), was stripped of his visa in 2019 around the same time it was reported that Cabinet minister Daryl Vaz had also lost his US visa. 

Vaz, in September, was re-issued his US visa after former ambassador Donald Tapia claimed the onus was on the US Government to ‘right a wrong served’. 

Paulwell was today (November 24) quoted in the Jamaica Gleaner as saying he was in receipt of a 10-year visa, which expires in November 2031. 

The justification for the visa revocations was never disclosed by the United States, but both Paulwell and Vaz denied any misconduct on their parts.