Ministry of Home Affairs, Guyana
Applies the ruleThe 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.
The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.
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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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