Revocation of Permanent Residence

The Caymanian Status & Permanent Residency Board may declare that any person who has been granted permission to remain permanently in the Islands has ceased to enjoy such permission where:

• he organises or engages in subversive political activity, or organises, causes or promotes racism within the Islands;
• the Board is satisfied that information given in his application for permission to remain permanently in the Islands was false in a material particular or concealed a material fact;
• he has been convicted of an offence against the laws of the Islands;
• he was convicted of an offence under the laws of another country, the nature of which offence would, in the opinion of the Board, make his continued presence in the Islands contrary to the public interest;
• he becomes destitute;
• he becomes mentally disordered or mentally defective as defined in the Mental Health Law (1997 Revision);
• he is medically certified to be suffering from a communicable disease that makes his continued residence in the Islands dangerous to the community;
• he is reasonably believed-
  • to be a prostitute and to have come to the Islands for the purposes of prostitution; or
  • to be living on, or receiving the proceeds of prostitution; or
• he is deemed by the Governor to be an undesirable inhabitant of the Islands; or
• he has been ordinarily resident outside the Islands continuously for a period of one year or more.

Last Updated: 2008-01-07