Tag: Immigration Appeals Tribunal
Number of work permit holders reaches new record
(CNS): After a slight decline at the end of last year, the number of work permit holders in the Cayman Islands, as of 11 March, reached a new record high of 36,972. According to a freedom of information request made by local attorneys HSM, this is an increase of 1,529 new permit holders since the […]
New line-ups for immigration boards and tribunal
(CNS): Cabinet has approved the appointment of numerous new members to the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board (CSPR), the Business Staffing Plan Board (BSP), and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT). The processing of PR and status applications, in particular, has been delayed significantly because these boards barely met this year, and then their terms […]
Ex-robber fights removal after lifetime in Cayman
(CNS): A 38-year-old former inmate of HMP Northward who has lived here in the Cayman Islands since he was five years old is fighting the removal of his Caymanian status and possible deportation by the court. Brandon Liberal claims that both the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT) and the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board (CSPRB) […]
Convicted cocaine dealer fights deportation
(CNS): A Colombian man who was convicted of drug smuggling in 2019 and given a four-year jail term made a successful step in preventing his deportation when the Grand Court ruled that the Immigration Appeals Tribunal should re-hear his case. Alan Lawrems Taylor Dominguez (49) was jailed for his central part in a 2017 conspiracy […]
AG proposes centralised public appeals system
(CNS): Attorney General Samuel Bulgin has asked the Law Reform Commission to examine the idea of consolidating the public appeals tribunal system into one body. Instead of several quasi-judicial separate panels dealing with challenges to decisions made by the Central Planning Authority, as well as the immigration, labour and other public authority boards, he has […]
Family rights trump ex-con’s deportation
(CNS): A case decided in the Grand Court last month could have lasting implications for the immigration department’s ability to deport people convicted of crimes. Justice Richard Williams found that a Jamaican national, who was the getaway driver in a 2013 supermarket robbery, should not be deported because of his right to a family life. […]
Victims of drug cartel lose refugee court fight
(CNS): A family that was targeted and tortured by a violent Mexican drug cartel and is seeking political asylum in the Cayman Islands lost their fight in the Grand Court Tuesday after a judge dismissed a judicial review application. He found the Immigration Appeals Tribunal had not made any error in law that could lead […]
Change to definition of marriage not needed for appeal
(CNS): Although there are apparently no grounds to reject the appeal, the Immigration Appeals Tribunal has still made no decision in the case of Dr Leonardo Raznovich and his husband, a lawyer with Maples and Calder, six months after the couple appealed an immigration decision not to allow Dr Raznovich to be listed a dependent […]
Supergrass challenges removal of residency right
(CNS): The man coined as a “supergrass” by his own lawyers after giving evidence for the crown in three major trials against a dangerous gang of robbers as well as the gunman in a murder case is challenging the removal of his permanent residency and employment rights following his own conviction. Marlon Dillon, who was […]
Gay couple begin appeal over permit refusal
(CNS): A former professor from the law school who was denied the right to remain in the Cayman Islands as a dependent of his lawful husband has said the couple have begun their appeal process. Dr Leonardo Raznovich and his husband, who are the first to begin a legal challenge relating to the rights of […]
CJ highlights list of problems with immigration appeals
(CNS): The chief justice has ordered the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT) to rehear two cases after describing a catalogue of problems in the points given to two women whose applications for permanent residency were refused. In a judgment likely to impact many more future cases, Anthony Smellie pointed to a substantial wrong and a miscarriage […]
