Commencement of Cayman Islands Immigration and Customs Related Laws rescheduled
GRAND CAYMAN (GIS) – Legislative changes to facilitate the transition of various immigration-related powers to the Workforce Opportunities Residency Cayman (WORC) and Customs and Border Control (CBC) will now take effect in early 2019. Although New Year’s Day had previously been announced.as the…
Cayman Islands Bill aims to establish statutory framework for WORC
GRAND CAYMAN (GIS) – The Ministry of Human Resources and Immigration seeks to set the foundation for one of Government’s new departments, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), with the proposed Immigration (Transition) Bill, 2018. If approved in the Legislative…
Cayman Islands: Proposed legislation to facilitate WORC & CBC transition
GRAND CAYMAN (GIS) – The Ministry of Human Resources and Immigration today (Wednesday, 24 October 2018) gazetted for public consultation a number of bills central to the proposed creation of two new Government agencies on 1 January 2019. The public…
Former Cayman Islands Immigration Assistant Chief Officer named WORC Deputy Director of Compliance
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS; 26 September 2018 Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman (WORC) has announced the appointment of the former Assistant Chief Immigration Officer, Mr. Jeremy Scott, as Deputy Director of the new department. Mr. Scott has 21 years of…
Cayman Islands: WORC welcomes Deputy Director Sian Pairaudeau
Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman (WORC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Sian Pairaudeau as its new Deputy Director of Labour Needs and Supply. Mrs. Pairaudeau’s role will involve the implementation of strategies and procedures aimed to deliver…
Cayman Islands’ WORC appoints Joel Burke as Deputy Director
Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC) has appointed Joel Burke as Deputy Director of Finance, Administration and Customer Service. Mr Burke takes up his new role on 1 September 2018. He will be charged with responsibility for WORC’s accounting and…
Cayman Islands Immigration Legislation changes pave way for WORC
Amendments to legislation are paving the way for the Cayman Islands Government’s new department, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC). Deliberations in the Legislative Assembly took place in the last sitting, where lawmakers were presented with a new Immigration (Amendment)…
Cayman Islands WORC meets with community leaders
The first of a series of roadshows between the new department Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), and industry stakeholders was completed last week. Invited to the meetings were leaders of local business and industry associations; including the Cayman Islands…
Cayman Islands WORC accepting bids to build new tech platform
The Cayman Islands Government’s new department, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), has announced that the tender process is open for the technology platform that will underpin the new business processes. “It is fundamental to our new business processes to…
WORC announced as new Cayman Islands Government department
Taking steps toward fulfilling the campaign mandate of establishing a new department geared towards restructuring the country’s labor market, the Cayman Islands Government has announced WORC, “Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman,” as the name of the department that will take…