Our local host/landlord picked up our J6 licenses, paid the administrative fees, and sent them to our stateside contact for US postal distribution to the team.  Normally this would be a two-stop process in St Lucia at the NRTC (National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) in Castries. Previous ham applicants have said to "plan at least a good part of a day" to complete this administrative task ("island time 'mon").  One agency stop is to receive you TAN (Taxpayer Account Number - an ec50 fee) and then to a second building to obtain your actual license (a 10 page "booklet") at the NRTC for an ec25 fee ( $1= ec2.65 where ec is for the Eastern Caribbean dollar).  The license also includes your NRTC approved ("stamped") Customs Inspection form that was one of the application forms for pre-clearance approval of our "telecom equipment", i.e. our radio transceivers, through  St Lucia Customs. 

To have a local host provide this level of service in our behalf minimizes the risks of "license snafu's" and will certainly allow us to get on the air much sooner than planned.  And it was advantageous to have the license booklet in hand for several reasons:

1)  We noticed in the License Conditions section that we did not get authorization for 30m or 60m band operation.  Our team License Regulatory point, Mike/KC4VG, will follow up with his contact within the NRTC for clarification.  The point is to review carefully the license for any problems or issues in order to resolve them before arriving.

2)  The last page of the booklet (Annex B) contains a "short form of licence".  We intend to make a photocopy then laminate to have on our person for portable, field operations while on St Lucia.

3)  Make a photocopy of the booklet including all receipts and the Telecom Customs Inspection form as backup documentation in the event the original is "misplaced" for whatever reason.

4)  We did receive the ITU designator for St Lucia, J6, as part of our first year call, e.g. J6/N7UN.  Previous applicants received calls like J68/homecall or even more challenging, homecall/J68.  So this is a welcome relief as it makes our DX exchange much easier.