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Do you speak English? For Bermuda Immigration, it’s not always so simple

First some housekeeping - I have redesigned and reorganised my website so that articles are organised by category. This will hopefully make it easier to search through what is becoming a large archive of articles and updates. As an experiment, I have also added a comments section for new articles.

Attorney General speaks to UK House of Lords

Kim Wilkerson today gave evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee on the relationship between the UK and the BOTs. She spoke about constitutional reform, clashes with the UK government, passports, migration, and "staying alert" to what the USA is getting up to around the world. I&

Very informative Senate exchange on Constitutional reform

Further to my previous post on constitutional reform, there has been a very interesting exchange in the Senate, involving the Attorney General, Kim Wilkerson. This is the most revealing exchange that I am aware of so far on this topic, although I have not seen it reported anywhere. I have

Should non-Bermudians do jury duty?

New work permit policies published

Following a consultation period, new work permit policies have been published. I wrote something about the consultation and the proposals previously.

Policy updates for permission to reside on an annual basis

The Minister has recently published an updated policy on people seeking permission to reside in Bermuda on an annual basis, without working. This has been an option for a long time, the digital nomad policy was a re-brand of it, and I expect to see many digital nomads changing to

The ins and outs of favouring Bermudians

I recently posted about some of the proposed changes to Bermuda's work permit policies. One thing that arises is the suggestion of a hiring hierarchy - favouring Bermudians first, then spouses, then divorced parents of Bermudians, then PRC holders, then other non-Bermudians with a 'qualifying connection'