Immigration Position Paper provides lack of meaningful commitments

The Minister responsible for Immigration and Labour has recently published a Position Paper on Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population. As with any formal announcement from Immigration, long-term residents will be interested in what this might mean for them. This paper recites population projections that have been known for…

Can public service employees naturalise as BOT citizens?

In order to naturalise as a BOT citizen, the key requirement is to be free from time restrictions on a person's period of residence in Bermuda. One group of people where there is a good argument for this is public service employees. Section 25 of the Bermuda Immigration…

Hazards of renouncing American citizenship

I speak to various American citizens who tell me that, once they have British Overseas Territories (BOT) and British citizenship, they would like to renounce their American citizenship - usually due to the almost uniquely American practice of demanding taxes from non-resident citizens. I tell them that is something to…