Exemption From Work Permit Requirements For Certain Activities

A person arriving in the Islands for the purpose of engaging in any activities listed below for a period not exceeding seven days is not required to obtain a work permit provided that only such activities are engaged in and no other activity is carried out that would otherwise require a work permit.

The exempted activities are as follows:

• attendance at meetings or trade fairs and making purchases from Cayman Islands businesses;
• attendance at conferences and seminars as an ordinary participant;
• the receiving of training, techniques and work practices employed in the Islands, where that training is confined to observation, familiarisation, and classroom instruction and only if the person is employed by a company or organisation carrying on business outside the Islands;
• being a representative of an overseas educational institution, to promote, or to interview applicants for places at, such institution;
• being a guest speaker at a conference or seminar where that event is a single or occasional event and not part of a commercial venture;
• the organising or supervising of a conference or seminar for up to seven days duration where it is a single or occasional event-
  • involving a specialist subject;
  • attracting a wide audience; and
  • open to participants from outside the Islands;
• the participation in sporting events, or trials or auditions in connection with such events;
• the covering of a specific news assignment as a newspaper, magazine, radio or television journalist representing a recognised news organisation;
• working for short periods on behalf of or for a non-profit or cultural organisation based in the Islands;
• the giving of professional or expert testimony in court proceedings; and
• working as a non-executive director of a business being carried on in the Islands where the person is not involved in the day to day operations in the Islands but is visiting in his capacity as a director only.

Last Updated: 2007-12-05