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Shadow Minister of Immigration Walton Brown has called on Michael Fahy to apologise for comments he made about the Ombudsman. However, Sylvan Richards, the Junior Minister of Home Affairs, said in a statement today that the One Bermuda Alliance rejec...

Senator Michael Fahy is the Minister of Home Affairs While I applaud MP Walton Brown’s efforts to educate Bermudians about immigration matters through a series of public meetings, the first of which was held early this week, I cannot help but be conc...

Walton Brown, the Shadow Minister for Immigration and External Affairs, said his party is to initiate an Island-wide conversation about the future of Bermuda’s immigration policy. Mr Brown held a public forum at the Allen Temple AME Church, Sandys, ...

The Progressive Labour Party will hold a public forum on immigration in Sandys today. The meeting at Allen Temple AME Church at 7.30pm will be hosted by Sandys South Central MP, Kim Wilson. Walton Brown, the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Extern...

As the nations of Europe struggle to cope with a tide of refugees from the Middle East, Bermuda’s own Jimmy Diep can reflect on the fears and hardship that come with the search for a new home. “I feel so sorry for them, because the situation now is g...

With very few options to boost the economy, Bermuda has missed an opportunity by putting the idea of commercial immigration on hold. This is the view of Don Mills, chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian company Corporate Research Associates...

The introduction of commercial immigration to Bermuda has been put on the back burner according to Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs. Senator Fahy told The Royal Gazette the Bermuda Government does not have the appetite to proceed with the c...

An Iranian-born British citizen who was denied a permanent residency certificate has won an appeal against the decision in the Supreme Court. Mehyrar Sharifi moved to the Island in September of 1998, but was forced to leave the Island in April 2008 a...

Progressive Labour Party MP Derrick Burgess has labelled economist Bob Stewart “out of touch” for writing an opinion piece criticising Bermuda politicians who “play on irrational fears about immigrants”. The article, ‘The Ambivalence of Bermuda Immig...

Requests for express passport renewal will only be accepted in cases of medical emergency, the Department of Immigration has advised. The public is reminded to check the expiration dates of their passports. If they have expired, they should be renewe...

Wakefield Quin barrister Peter Sanderson explores some of the implications of the recent judgment confirming that naturalised British Overseas Territories citizens are not subject to work permit restrictions. A recent judgment has confirmed that natu...

Dear Sir, It was good to learn of Chief Justice Kawaley’s sagacious decision to award status to British Overseas naturalised citizens, thereby erasing longstanding errors on the part of the Department of Immigration. Perhaps the good Chief Justice c...