Another post in my seemingly endless saga of doing a sea burial of my late husband's cremated remains in Jamaica. We have our hotel booked (SATP) and the hotel will arrange for a boat to take us out to do the burial. My understanding is that I need the death certificate and certification of cremation (both of which I have) and a transit permit. I cannot find any information on obtaining this transit permit for a case where a family member is bring the cremains rather than them going from a funeral home in the US to a funeral home in Jamaica. I currently have the remains in an urn in my home and they will be transported and buried in a TSA-approved biodegradable urn.
The Jamaican Consulate in Washington DC has an endless voice mail system that keeps taking me back to the same recording. The one in New York has no operator pickup. The instructions available for a transit permit assume a funeral home-to-funeral home transport. I have contacted the consulate in Jamaica via e-mail and have received no answer.
I don't want to end up with my husbands remains sitting somewhere in Kingston or Montego Bay and have to spend five days trying to straighten it out. Does anyone have any information on how I can do this? Thank you in advance if you do.