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Ten more added to BVI immigration stop list.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
ROAD TOWN , BVI: Ten more persons have been added to the BVI's immigration stop list.
Director of Communications Sandra Ward said the ten were added by Executive Council after they were convicted in the Territory of offences including overstaying, unlawful possession of a Virgin Islands passport, burglary, possession of unlicensed firearm, drug possession and malicious wounding.
Ward said the ten persons previously resided in or travelled to the Territory but are currently abroad.
“Their return is deemed not to be in the best interest of the Territory. It is therefore considered prudent that steps be taken to prohibit their re-entry,” she said, adding that the Executive Council decision was taken this month.
Persons listed on the official stop list are prohibited from re-entering the Territory.
The latest additions to the Territory’s immigration stop list are natives of the US Virgin Islands, Guyana, Trinidad, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, the Dominican Republic and the United States of America.
The names were added in accordance with the Territory’s Immigration and Passport Act, which gives Executive Council authority to maintain a stop list of persons whose presence in the Territory is deemed undesirable.
“Executive Council’s decision may be based on the person’s past behaviour in the Territory, or on advice from a reliable source,” Ward explained.
The immigration stop list is one of the border security tools at the Territory’s disposal. Names are put forward for inclusion by the Immigration Department’s intelligence and surveillance unit, based on information provided by the courts and other law enforcement agencies in the Territory and region.
On a related matter, Ward also announced that Executive Council has approved the Immigration and Passport (Amendment) Bill, 2006. “Executive Council agreed that this amendment will be introduced at a sitting of the
Legislative Council in the coming weeks,” she said.
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