But, what it has done is create an opportunity for scammers who are now defrauding travelers with a bogus knockoff site. The fake site is named "belizetravelform.com" and though it is fake, it looks legit enough. But when it gets to the final step of filling out the form it requires what it calls a "mandatory migration and customs fee" - which is 15 US dollars. Travelers are then directed to enter their credit card information and they are charged - only to find out when they land in Belize, that nothing has been entered into the system here, no fee was required and they were scammed by a hoax site.

We spoke to the CEO in the Ministry of e-governance, Jose Urbina about it - and he told us they became aware of the fake site about 7 to 10 days ago. They have tried to get it taken down, but without much luck. So, he says they are focussing on educating travelers, simplifying the domain name and also using search engine optimization to bring the official form to the top of google searches. When we searched today, the fake form was at the top of the list - while the legit official form was at number three on the search results. Travelers are also offered a QR code at the airport - which leads them to the legitimate page.