Marrying a Jamaican

The ministry leading Jamaica's constitutional reform, which publishes on its Road to Republic site a clean consolidated text of the Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962 updated to 2024, with amendment references in the margins. It is the only readable consolidated Constitution the Government publishes: the Ministry of Justice copy is a recognition of a scan whose Chapter II pages were authorised in 2001.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for a cut-off in the Constitution's own words. The file carries no page-authorisation notices and no statement of the date it is current to; the latest amendment in its margins is Act 10 of 2023 and the only claim to currency is the name of the file. It is published for a reform programme rather than as the statute book, so it should be read beside the Ministry of Justice edition rather than instead of it.

We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source

The agency that admits travellers, extends stays, grants permanent residence and unconditional landing, and processes citizenship applications. It publishes the only complete country-by-country visa table Jamaica issues, its immigration and citizenship fee tables, and the requirement lists applicants actually work from.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what the law requires. Its published maximum of six months for a non-Commonwealth visitor has no counterpart in the Aliens Act, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure is in the statute twice. Permanent residence and unconditional landing are its own constructs: neither immigration Act names either status, and the agency does not say what it grants them under. Its pages contradict each other - citizenship by descent is twenty-five working days in the procedure text and ninety in the fee table on the same page - and its categories page omits registration of Commonwealth nationals and naturalisation, both of which appear on its own fee table. Many of its internal links are broken, pointing at https:/.jm/ paths. Its /immigration page serves the fee table rather than an immigration overview.

We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source

The agency that admits travellers, extends stays, grants permanent residence and unconditional landing, and processes citizenship applications. It publishes the only complete country-by-country visa table Jamaica issues, its immigration and citizenship fee tables, and the requirement lists applicants actually work from.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what the law requires. Its published maximum of six months for a non-Commonwealth visitor has no counterpart in the Aliens Act, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure is in the statute twice. Permanent residence and unconditional landing are its own constructs: neither immigration Act names either status, and the agency does not say what it grants them under. Its pages contradict each other - citizenship by descent is twenty-five working days in the procedure text and ninety in the fee table on the same page - and its categories page omits registration of Commonwealth nationals and naturalisation, both of which appear on its own fee table. Many of its internal links are broken, pointing at https:/.jm/ paths. Its /immigration page serves the fee table rather than an immigration overview.

We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source

The ministry that issues work permits and work permit exemptions under the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Employment) Act, issues and verifies Certificates of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills under the Free Movement of Skilled Persons Act, and issues Marriage Exemption Certificates.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for the list of qualifying Caribbean Community occupations: it publishes agricultural workers and private security officers, neither of which is in the Act's First Schedule as published. It states that the Caribbean Community has thirteen member states. It publishes no work permit fee at all, only that one is payable by the employer on approval. Its page is built of collapsed accordions, so an extraction service captures the headings and none of the content; it has to be read by a direct request.

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The ministry that issues work permits and work permit exemptions under the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Employment) Act, issues and verifies Certificates of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skills under the Free Movement of Skilled Persons Act, and issues Marriage Exemption Certificates.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for the list of qualifying Caribbean Community occupations: it publishes agricultural workers and private security officers, neither of which is in the Act's First Schedule as published. It states that the Caribbean Community has thirteen member states. It publishes no work permit fee at all, only that one is payable by the employer on approval. Its page is built of collapsed accordions, so an extraction service captures the headings and none of the content; it has to be read by a direct request.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

The agency that admits travellers, extends stays, grants permanent residence and unconditional landing, and processes citizenship applications. It publishes the only complete country-by-country visa table Jamaica issues, its immigration and citizenship fee tables, and the requirement lists applicants actually work from.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what the law requires. Its published maximum of six months for a non-Commonwealth visitor has no counterpart in the Aliens Act, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure is in the statute twice. Permanent residence and unconditional landing are its own constructs: neither immigration Act names either status, and the agency does not say what it grants them under. Its pages contradict each other - citizenship by descent is twenty-five working days in the procedure text and ninety in the fee table on the same page - and its categories page omits registration of Commonwealth nationals and naturalisation, both of which appear on its own fee table. Many of its internal links are broken, pointing at https:/.jm/ paths. Its /immigration page serves the fee table rather than an immigration overview.

We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source

The agency that admits travellers, extends stays, grants permanent residence and unconditional landing, and processes citizenship applications. It publishes the only complete country-by-country visa table Jamaica issues, its immigration and citizenship fee tables, and the requirement lists applicants actually work from.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what the law requires. Its published maximum of six months for a non-Commonwealth visitor has no counterpart in the Aliens Act, where the twelve-month Commonwealth figure is in the statute twice. Permanent residence and unconditional landing are its own constructs: neither immigration Act names either status, and the agency does not say what it grants them under. Its pages contradict each other - citizenship by descent is twenty-five working days in the procedure text and ninety in the fee table on the same page - and its categories page omits registration of Commonwealth nationals and naturalisation, both of which appear on its own fee table. Many of its internal links are broken, pointing at https:/.jm/ paths. Its /immigration page serves the fee table rather than an immigration overview.

We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source