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Naturalisation mentioned in the Throne Speech

The Throne Speech delivered today makes mention of the process for naturalising as a British Overseas Territories citizen, and an intention to seek changes over how the process works. Currently, an application for naturalisation is submitted via the Department of Immigration, which carries out the vetting process. Upon conclusion of

Futurecare subsidy for long term residents

Is it unlawful to charge non-Bermudians three times the amount of Bermudians for FutureCare?

A reminder on the perils of registering children as BOT citizens

I have spoken with some people lately saying their friends have registered their children as BOT citizens, thinking that this will benefit them. With some exceptions, it is usually a very bad idea for non-Bermudians to register their child as a BOT citizen. Only naturalised BOT citizens count as

Government back-pedalling on PRC proposals

In a ZBM interview last week, the Minister responsible for Immigration, Jason Hayward, indicated that plans to roll out more flexible PRC options may be put on hold. I include below a link to the video recording, the segment starts at the 2m 30s mark, and I also include some

Parliament on recess

Immigration news

In the past few months, Immigration processing times have improved dramatically, with the backlog of applications being mostly cleared, and new applications being processed in a matter of months rather than 18 months plus. It remains to be seen whether this will sustain itself if numbers of applications increase substantially.

Impact of the reinstatement of BMU passport code on non-Bermudian BOT passport holders

With much fanfare, the government has announced that the BMU code is returning to the Bermuda passport. The background to this is that Bermuda passport holders have historically been able to travel to the USA without any visa or even a visa waiver. However, when the UK took over the