Work Permits: the Employer Applies and the Employer Is Punished, and the Fee Moved to Dollars in 2022
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda 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 Antigua and Barbuda to Suriname · Residency through work
The Wet Werkvergunning Vreemdelingen 1981 forbids an employer to make an alien work without a permit from the Director of Labour. The duty and the offence both sit on the employer, not on the worker. A permit is applied for jointly by employer and alien, names both the alien and the undertaking, and is treated as not applied for at all unless the alien already holds, or has applied for, a residence permit valid for work - so the immigration file comes first and the labour file second. A labour-market test applies: a permit may be refused where supply exists or can reasonably be expected. Two things sit outside the Act. Persons from whom a work permit may not be required under a treaty or a binding decision of an international organisation are excluded by article 2, which is where the CARICOM skilled national lands; and holders of PSA status may work without the permit by their own Act. Since 1 December 2022 the fee is USD 100 or the equivalent in Surinamese dollars, and the amending Act says why: the 2004 redenomination had turned the old charge into SRD 75.
At a glance
- Who must hold the permit
- The employer, who commits the offence if there is none
- Fee
- USD 100, or the equivalent in Surinamese dollarsas of 2022-12-01
Substituted for the earlier charge by S.B. 2022 no. 144. The same Act adds a power to set the charge by State decree in future.
- Decision time
- Thirty days, extendable once by thirty days
- Appeal
- To the Minister of Labour, within thirty days
- Penalty
- Up to six months' detention or a third-category fine, per worker and per dayas of 2022-12-01
The per-worker, per-day accumulation was added by S.B. 2022 no. 144.
- Outside the Act
- Persons covered by a treaty, and holders of PSA status
Requirements
- A joint application by the employer and the alien to the Director of Labour
- A residence permit valid for work, or at least an application for one, before the work permit application counts as made
- Payment of the fee by the employer, with no refund
- No reasonably expected supply on the local labour market for the work in question
In detail
The order of operations is fixed by statute
Article 4(6)(b) is the provision a reader needs most. An application for a work permit is deemed not to have been made at all unless the alien either holds a residence permit valid for work or has already applied for one. The immigration decision and the labour decision are therefore sequential and not parallel, and the authority that takes each is different: the Minister responsible for admission, settlement and expulsion of aliens for the first, the Director of Labour for the second. Suriname is unusual in making that dependency explicit in the labour statute rather than leaving it to practice.
The employer carries the offence
Article 3 prohibits the employer, article 12 punishes the employer, and article 9(b) requires the employer to tell the Director in writing if the permit goes unused. The alien is not the offender under this Act. The 2022 amendment sharpened it further by providing that a separate penalty is imposed for each person in respect of whom the breach was committed and for each day on which it was committed, which converts a flat fine for an undertaking into one multiplied by headcount and duration.
Country-level policy
The common-law countries covered here inherit the rule that a treaty does nothing domestically until Parliament enacts it, which is why Trinidad needed an Act giving the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas the force of law and Guyana needed one with a supremacy clause. Suriname inherits the Dutch rule instead. Article 103 of the Constitution requires the National Assembly to approve an agreement before it is ratified or enters into force; article 105 then gives provisions of such agreements that by their content can bind everyone binding force once published; and article 106 disapplies any Surinamese statutory rule whose application would be incompatible with such a provision, whether the agreement was entered into before or after the rule. The consequence runs through this whole country record. An absence of implementing legislation in Suriname is not the same fact that it is in Saint Kitts or Grenada, and it cannot be read as an absence of the right.
Suriname's laws are published by the National Assembly in four collections, and the boundary between them is a date. The first is Geldende teksten tot en met 2005, texts in force to 2005: the amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005 to produce consolidated texts. The second and third are the Acts passed after 2005 and the amendments made after 2005, published as facsimiles of the Staatsblad, one instrument at a time. The index page states in terms that the new Acts and amendments have not since been incorporated into the consolidated text. That is a cut-off stated by the publisher rather than inferred from an edition's name, and it is unusually honest: most revised editions in this comparison say nothing about their own staleness. The practical consequence is that reading a consolidated Surinamese Act is only half the work. The other half is the list of post-2005 amendments, where the Income Tax Act alone has ten entries.
Full free movement for any national of a participating state, rather than for a certificated skilled citizen, opened on 1 October 2025 between Belize, Barbados, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Suriname is not a party, and this is shown from its own statute book rather than asserted. The National Assembly publishes four collections of legislation. The collection of Acts passed after 2005 contains one CARICOM instrument, the skilled citizens Act of 2006. The collection of amendments after 2005 contains two, both to that Act, the later of which is of August 2023 and changes only the penalty provision. The treaty collection contains one, the 2006 Act approving the protocol on the Caribbean Court of Justice's original jurisdiction. There is no Act, amendment or treaty approval of 2025 or 2026 touching free movement. The administrative side says the same thing: the aliens department continues to describe a CARICOM national who is not a recognised skilled citizen as receiving a six-month short stay inside which a residence application must be lodged, which is the opposite of a right to enter and remain.
Suriname replaced the Surinamese guilder with the Surinamese dollar in 2004, and the consolidation of its statute book was done in 2005 without restating the amounts. Every money figure in a text from that collection is therefore printed in a currency that no longer exists: the naturalisation charge of Sf. 200,000, the work permit fee of Sf. 75,000, the income tax bands in millions of guilders, the fine of five hundred thousand guilders in the work permit Act. What the conversion did is stated in one place in the statute book, the explanatory memorandum to the Act of 1 December 2022 that replaced the work permit fee: the general rate was converted from Sf. 75,000 to SRD 75, a division by a thousand, and had since been thoroughly overtaken. Acts passed after 2005 are in Surinamese dollars from the start, which is why the skilled citizens Act of 2006 charges SRD 75 and the health insurance Act of 2014 prices cover in SRD. Nothing here converts a guilder figure on its own authority.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda
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
«Het is een werkgever verboden een vreemdeling arbeid te doen verrichten zonder
vergunning van de Directeur.»Our translation - not official
An employer is forbidden to have an alien perform work without a permit from the Director.
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«Deze wet is niet van toepassing op:
a. personen van wie ingevolge bepalingen, vastgesteld bij overeenkomst met andere
mogendheden dan wel bij een voor Suriname verbindend besluit van een
volkenrechtelijke organisatie, een werkvergunning niet mag worden verlangd;
b. personen, die behoren tot een bij staatsbesluit aangewezen categorie.»Our translation - not official
This Act does not apply to: (a) persons from whom, under provisions laid down by agreement with other powers or by a decision of an international organisation binding on Suriname, a work permit may not be required; (b) persons belonging to a category designated by State decree.
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
Paragraph (a) is the hinge for the Caribbean Community. Nothing in this Act names the Community; the exemption works through whatever treaty or decision binds Suriname.
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«b. indien deze een vreemdeling betreft, die niet beschikt over een voor het
verrichten van arbeid geldige vergunning tot verblijf, noch een zodanige
vergunning heeft aangevraagd.»Our translation - not official
(An application is deemed not to have been made) if it concerns an alien who holds neither a residence permit valid for the performance of work nor has applied for such a permit.
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«Een vergunning kan worden geweigerd indien voor het verrichten van arbeid, waarop de
gevraagde vergunning betrekking heeft, aanbod op de arbeidsmarkt aanwezig is of
redelijkerwijs te verwachten is.»Our translation - not official
A permit may be refused if supply is present on the labour market, or can reasonably be expected, for the performance of the work to which the permit applied for relates.
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
Replaced by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which keeps this ground as paragraph (a) and adds three more: obstruction of the investigation, false or forged documents, and an undertaking not found at the address given.
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«1. Tegen een beschikking tot weigering of intrekking van een vergunning kan zowel
de werkgever als de vreemdeling binnen dertig (30) dagen nadat het besluit ter
kennis van de aanvrager is gebracht of hij geacht kan worden daarvan kennis te
hebben genomen, in beroep gaan bij de Minister.»Our translation - not official
Against a decision refusing or withdrawing a permit both the employer and the alien may appeal to the Minister within thirty (30) days of the decision being brought to the applicant's notice or of the moment he can be deemed to have taken notice of it.
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«2. Bij de aanvraag en verlening van een werkvergunning dienen de kosten ad USD 100,- (Honderd Amerikaanse Dollar) of de tegenwaarde in Surinaamse Dollar, terstond voldaan te worden door dewerkever van welk bedrag er geen restitutie mogelijk is.»Our translation - not official
On application for and grant of a work permit the costs of USD 100 (One Hundred United States Dollars) or the equivalent in Surinamese Dollars must be paid immediately by the employer, of which amount no refund is possible.
This instrument is published only as an image. The wording above was read off that picture and checked by eye, so it did not pass the machine verbatim check the other quotations passed. Treat it as accurate but re-read the scan before relying on it.
«Het algemene tarief van de werkvergunningen werd alzo omgezet van Sf. 75.000 naar SRD 75 en inmiddels is dit zwaar achterhaald door de macro-economische ontwikkelingen.»Our translation - not official
The general rate for work permits was thus converted from Sf. 75,000 to SRD 75 and has meanwhile been thoroughly overtaken by macro-economic developments.
The explanatory memorandum to the amending Act, which is the clearest statement in the statute book that the 2004 redenomination divided guilder amounts by a thousand. It explains why money figures printed in the consolidated texts cannot be read at face value.
«1. Vreemdelingen aan wie het krachtens artikel 6 lid 2 van de Wet is toegestaan in
Suriname te verblijven en die arbeid gaan zoeken of arbeid gaan verrichten, zijn
verplicht daarvan onverwijld mededeling te doen aan het hoofd van de plaatselijke
politie.»Our translation - not official
Aliens who are permitted to stay in Suriname under article 6(2) of the Act and who are going to look for work or to perform work are obliged to notify the head of the local police of this without delay.
Sub-section (2) exempts the holder of an authorisation for short stay, a person who can show he came to work for at most three months from entry, a seaman signing on, and categories designated by the Minister.
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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Practical notes
The permit fee is the one figure here that moved recently, and the consolidated text still prints the old one in guilders. We quote the current figure from the amending Act rather than from the consolidation.
This record rests on the whole of the Wet Werkvergunning Vreemdelingen as consolidated to 2005, the whole of the amending Act S.B. 2022 no. 144, article 32 of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 1995 and articles 11 and 12 of the Vreemdelingenwet 1991.
- consolidatesWet Werkvergunning Vreemdelingen (S.B. 1981 no. 162)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname · consolidated to 2005
Known to be out of date. Amended after this consolidation by S.B. 2022 no. 144, which replaced the fee in article 4(2), added a new article 4(8), rewrote the refusal grounds in article 7 and replaced the penalty in article 12. That amending Act is read and cited separately.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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- consolidatesWet van 1 december 2022 tot nadere wijziging van de Wet Werkvergunning Vreemdelingen (S.B. 2022 no. 144)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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- consolidatesVreemdelingenbesluit 1995 (S.B. 1995 no. 85)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname · consolidated to 2005
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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- consolidatesVreemdelingenwet 1991 (S.B. 1992 no. 3)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname · consolidated to 2005
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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