Becoming Guyanese: Five Ways In, and a Discretion No Court May Review
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Lucia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Saint Lucia to Guyana · Becoming a citizen
Chapter IV of the Constitution and the Guyana Citizenship Act between them give a closed list: you are a citizen by birth in Guyana, by birth abroad to a Guyanese parent, by entitlement on marriage to a citizen, by registration, or by naturalisation. Registration is for Commonwealth citizens and citizens of Ireland after five years of ordinary residence or government service; naturalisation is for everyone else and asks for twelve months in Guyana immediately before the application plus five years in the preceding seven. Neither asks about money, a language or a test. What they do have is section 7(2), which says the Minister need give no reason for refusing and that no exercise of the power may be appealed or reviewed in any court - an ouster of unusual breadth. The Ministry of Home Affairs adds requirements of its own: four sworn recommendations from Guyanese of good standing, a notice of your intention published in two separate issues of a local newspaper, a tax liability statement and a social-insurance compliance statement.
At a glance
- Residence for naturalisation
- Twelve months immediately before the application, and five years in the preceding seven
- Residence for registration (Commonwealth or Irish citizens)
- Five years
- Residence after marriage to a citizen
- None stated
The residence conditions in the Citizenship Act are in the Second Schedule, quoted here, and they govern naturalisation. The marriage route is article 45 of the Constitution, which states none.
- Language or civics test
- None in the Act
- Investment or contribution route
- None
The ways in are birth and descent under articles 43 and 44 of the Constitution, marriage under article 45, registration under section 4 of the Citizenship Act and naturalisation under section 9. Sections 4 and 9 are quoted here and none of the five turns on a payment.
- Recommendations required by the Ministry for naturalisation
- Four, stampedas of 2026-10-06
- Newspaper notice for naturalisation
- Two separate issues of a newspaper circulating in the applicant's districtas of 2026-10-06
- Review of a refusal
- None. The Minister need give no reason and no exercise of the power is subject to appeal or review in any court
- Dual citizenship
- Not automatically lost, but the President may deprive a citizen who voluntarily acquires another citizenship
Article 46(1) expressly excludes acquisition by marriage. It is a discretion, not an automatic forfeiture.
Requirements
- For naturalisation: twelve months' residence in Guyana immediately before the application, five years of residence in the preceding seven, good character, and an intention to reside in Guyana if the certificate is granted
- For registration as a Commonwealth citizen or citizen of Ireland: five years of ordinary residence in Guyana, service of the Government of Guyana, or a mixture, ending with the application
- The oath of allegiance in the First Schedule
- Application forms in duplicate, sworn before a Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or other official
- Four stamped recommendations from Guyanese nationals of good standing, with copies of their identity documents
- A notice of your intention to apply, published in two separate issues of a newspaper circulating in your district
- An income tax liability statement and a National Insurance Scheme compliance statement
- Copies of your passport showing all stamped pages including the date of first entry, your birth certificate, and your spouse's and children's documents
In detail
Two routes, chosen by your present nationality
Guyana sorts applicants by what passport they already hold. A Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of Ireland uses section 4(1) of the Citizenship Act and needs five years of ordinary residence or Government service. Everyone else is an alien for the Act's purposes and uses section 9 and the Second Schedule, which is stricter in shape though not in length: twelve months in the country immediately before applying, and five years in the aggregate in the seven years before that twelve-month period. The Minister may relax every limb of the Second Schedule, including by counting residence anywhere in the Commonwealth, which means the two routes converge in practice far more than they do on paper.
The discretion, and the absence of review
Section 7(2) is the provision to read before anything else. It says the Minister is not required to give a reason for registering, naturalising or certifying citizenship, and that no exercise of any such power is subject to appeal or review in any court. Ouster clauses of that breadth are rare in the countries covered here, and they change what the residence periods mean: meeting them creates no entitlement. The one place where an entitlement does exist is article 45 of the Constitution, on marriage to a citizen, which says a person "shall be entitled" to be registered. That is a constitutional right rather than a statutory discretion, and the difference is the whole of it.
What the counter adds
The Act asks for residence, good character and an intention to reside. The Ministry of Home Affairs asks for four stamped recommendations from Guyanese nationals of good standing, with copies of their identity documents; a notice of the intention to apply published in two separate issues of a newspaper circulating in the applicant's district; an income tax liability statement; and a National Insurance compliance statement. The newspaper notice is the kind of requirement that used to appear in the Act itself in Commonwealth nationality statutes, and here it does not: the Citizenship Regulations prescribe forms, not publication. A reader who plans from the Act alone will be surprised by it.
No investment route, and the closed list that shows it
Guyana is a CARICOM member, is not an OECS member, and runs no citizenship-by-investment programme. The grounds for citizenship are exhaustively set out: articles 41 to 45 of the Constitution for continuation, birth, descent and marriage, and article 48 letting Parliament provide for acquisition by those who do not qualify under the Chapter. What Parliament provided is the Citizenship Act, whose operative grants are registration under sections 4 and 5 and naturalisation under section 9 and the Second Schedule. Not one of those provisions refers to a payment, a contribution, a fund, a bond or a property purchase.
Country-level policy
Guyana's statute book is published under the Law Revision Act, which establishes a Law Revision Commission chaired by the Attorney-General, lets it publish in loose-leaf or any other form it determines, and makes every authorised page bear the number of the Law Revision Order that put it there. Section 9 then says those pages are, in all courts and for all purposes, the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The authority is therefore the L.R.O. number printed at the foot of every page, and on mola.gov.gy two different numbers are in circulation. The first three volumes carry L.R.O. 1/2022; everything from volume four onwards carries L.R.O. 1/2012, which the Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 shows the law as it stood on 31 December 2012. Immigration, citizenship, aliens, the CARICOM Acts, income tax, customs and road traffic are all in the older half.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Lucia
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«9. The Minister may, at his discretion, if application
of aliens and
therefor is made to him in the prescribed manner by any alien
British
protected
or British protected person of full age and capacity who»The words set off on their own lines inside this quotation are the section's marginal note and the amending-Act references, which the publisher prints down the left-hand edge of the page; the extraction places them inline. The sentence completes on the next page: "satisfies him that he is qualified under the Second Schedule for naturalisation grant to him a certificate of naturalisation".
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«that he has resided in Guyana
throughout the period of twelve
months immediately preceding the
date of the application;»Paragraph 1(b) adds "that during the seven years immediately preceding the said period of twelve months he has resided in Guyana for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than five years". Paragraph 2 lets the Minister relax any of it, including by counting residence anywhere in the Commonwealth.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«4. (1) A Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the
certain persons Republic of Ireland, being of full age and capacity, may, on
as citizens.
making application therefor under this subsection to the
Minister in the prescribed manner, be registered at the
discretion of the Minister as a citizen of Guyana if he satisfies
the Minister that he—»The words set off on their own lines inside this quotation are the section's marginal note and the amending-Act references, which the publisher prints down the left-hand edge of the page; the extraction places them inline. The condition is five years of ordinary residence in Guyana, service of the Government of Guyana, or a mixture of the two, ending with the application, or a shorter period the Minister accepts in special circumstances.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«(2) The Minister shall not be required to assign any
reason for the exercise of any discretionary power conferred
on him as to the registering as a citizen, the naturalizing, or
certifying the citizenship, of any person and no exercise of
any such power shall be subject to appeal or review in any
court.»About this source
Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«46. (1) If the President of Guyana is satisfied that any
citizenship on
acquisition of, or citizen of Guyana has any time after 25th May 1966, acquired by
exercise of right registration, naturalisation or any other or other voluntary and
of, another
citizenship. formal act (other than marriage) the citizenship of any country
other than Guyana, the President may by order deprive that
person of his or her citizenship.»The words set off on their own lines inside this quotation are the section's marginal note and the amending-Act references, which the publisher prints down the left-hand edge of the page; the extraction places them inline. The repeated "any other or other" is the publisher's. The power is discretionary and expressly does not reach citizenship acquired by marriage.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«47. (1) Every person who under this Constitution or any
citizens.
Act of Parliament is a citizen of Guyana or under any enactment
for the time being in force in any country to which this article
applies is a citizen of that country shall, by virtue of that
citizenship, have the status of a Commonwealth citizen.»The words set off on their own lines inside this quotation are the section's marginal note and the amending-Act references, which the publisher prints down the left-hand edge of the page; the extraction places them inline. Paragraph (3) lists the countries, which is the list that decides who may use the five-year registration route under section 4(1) of the Citizenship Act.
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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«Four (4) stamped recommendations from Guyanese nationals of good
standing attesting to the applicant's character and copy of their
Identification card (ID card)/ Passport»The sheet is a scan with a recognised text layer and its heading is garbled by the recognition; the body text is legible.
«Applicant must advertise in two (2) separate issues of any newspaper
circulating in the district in which the
applicant resides notice of his/her
intention to apply to the Minister of
Citizenship for Naturalisation.»This requirement appears on the naturalisation sheet only. Neither registration sheet carries it.
Practical notes
The arrangement of sections in the Citizenship Act jumps from 11 to 13, but section 12 is printed in the body of the Act. The omission is in the arrangement, not in the text.
All three Ministry of Home Affairs citizenship sheets ask for an income tax liability statement and a National Insurance compliance statement, which an applicant who has never been employed in Guyana will have to obtain as nil statements.
This record rests on articles 41 to 49 of the Constitution in the 2022 revised edition, the whole of the Guyana Citizenship Act including both Schedules and the Citizenship Regulations in the 2012 revised edition, and three Ministry of Home Affairs requirement sheets.
- consolidatesConstitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana Act, Chapter 1:01
Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers, Guyana · consolidated to 2022-12-31
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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- consolidatesGuyana Citizenship Act, Chapter 14:01
Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers, Guyana · consolidated to 2012-12-31
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Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.
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- administersNaturalisation as a Citizen of Guyana
Ministry of Home Affairs, Guyana
About this source
The ministry that runs immigration in Guyana through its Immigration Support Services unit, and the only publisher of what a foreign worker, student, business visitor or citizenship applicant actually has to produce. It publishes one-page requirement sheets for the Employment Visa on Arrival, the Landing Permits for employment, business and student status, and for naturalisation and the two kinds of registration as a citizen, together with the application forms.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Nothing it publishes has a statutory source. The phrase "work permit" appears in no Guyanese statute, the three-month newspaper advertisement of a vacancy appears in no instrument, and study is not among the purposes the Immigration Act allows a permit to be issued for. Its sheets must therefore be cited as what the Ministry requires and never as what the law requires. Every requirement sheet is a scanned page with a poor embedded recognition layer - the headings come out as nonsense - so a reading of one is a recognition of a picture and must be stored and quoted as ocr. The sheets carry no date; the ones read here sit in the Ministry's December 2021 upload directory. The Ministry links from its applications page to at least one address that answers 404.
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- administersRegistration as a Citizen of Guyana
Ministry of Home Affairs, Guyana
About this source
The ministry that runs immigration in Guyana through its Immigration Support Services unit, and the only publisher of what a foreign worker, student, business visitor or citizenship applicant actually has to produce. It publishes one-page requirement sheets for the Employment Visa on Arrival, the Landing Permits for employment, business and student status, and for naturalisation and the two kinds of registration as a citizen, together with the application forms.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Nothing it publishes has a statutory source. The phrase "work permit" appears in no Guyanese statute, the three-month newspaper advertisement of a vacancy appears in no instrument, and study is not among the purposes the Immigration Act allows a permit to be issued for. Its sheets must therefore be cited as what the Ministry requires and never as what the law requires. Every requirement sheet is a scanned page with a poor embedded recognition layer - the headings come out as nonsense - so a reading of one is a recognition of a picture and must be stored and quoted as ocr. The sheets carry no date; the ones read here sit in the Ministry's December 2021 upload directory. The Ministry links from its applications page to at least one address that answers 404.
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