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2nd & 3rd readings of Immigration & Passport (Amendment) Act ‘deleted’
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Second and Third Readings for the Bill entitled Immigration and Passport (Amendment) Act has been pulled from the Order Paper at the Third Sitting of the First Session of the Fourth House of Assembly (HoA) of the Virgin Islands today, May 17, 2019.
Hundreds descend on RT Police Station for Police Clearance Certificates
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As the Department of Immigration prepares to receive applications from persons residing 15 years or more in the territory and wishing to regularise themselves through the Government's ‘fast track initiative’, which closes on May 31, 2019, the rush is on to get the necessary required documents, including police clearance certificate.
'We have to speak, show & act love'- Hon Wheatley
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI- “We are really trying to help persons who have lived among us. They have been here for some 30, some 40 years but absolutely no status. There are kids who have been born here, lived all their lives in the BVI, know no place else besides the BVI. We want to make sure that these persons feel at home. They are our wives, our cousins and so forth…We want to spread the love. We must not only speak love, we must also show and act love.”
‘Where you born is where you from’- Julian Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Two simple solutions to one big problem currently plaguing the Virgin Islands (UK)- that of expats children born in the territory becoming "stateless" if they do not get a passport from the country of origin of their parents- are a referendum or a change of immigration laws.
‘End the lip service’- Rajah A. Smith tells Hon Walwyn
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate in the 2015 General Election, Rajah A. Smith has called for an end to the “lip service” by the Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) as it relates to children born to expatriate parents in the Virgin Islands getting a difficult time to receive status in the territory.
Expats children’s birthrights up for Constitutional Review talks- Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – It has been a ‘hot’ topic recently in the House of Assembly about expatriates’ children ‘born here’ being deprived immediate citizenship because of the British Nationality Act.
Can we & should we silence non-born-here voices??
By Alred C. Frett
Research is not yet completed but below are some Follow-ups to date:
The end of citizenship through stay in the Virgin Islands
By Dickson Igwe
This second of three stories on migration into the Virgin Islands states that the end of residency, citizenship, and belonger status, through length of stay, is on the horizon. This narrative begins by alluding to the debut of a wonderful stage performance of Virgin Islands art and culture.
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