s.20Categories of Caymanians
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Section 20Part 3 — Provisions Relating to Caymanians

Categories of Caymanians

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20. (1) A person shall, for purposes of this Law, be deemed to possess the right to be Caymanian if —
he is Caymanian at the 1st January, 2004;
he is Caymanian as of right as defined in section 21;
he is Caymanian by grant of the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board under section 22;
he has obtained the right by entitlement; or
the Cabinet, acting on the recommendation of the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board, grants such right to him and that grant is subsequently ratified by the Legislative Assembly; save that the Cabinet shall not make more than four such grants in any calendar year, Section 21 Immigration Law Page 28 Revised as at 2nd day of July, 2015 c and he shall continue to possess and enjoy the right to be Caymanian unless and until he loses it under section 27.
A person who believes that he possesses the right to be Caymanian under subsection (1) may apply in the prescribed form to the Chief Immigration Officer for the formal acknowledgement of that right in his passport, and the Chief Immigration Officer shall, within fourteen days, either provide the acknowledgement or give written reasons for his refusal to do so.
Where, by application of law, a person loses his right to be Caymanian, the Chief Immigration Officer may cancel the passport acknowledgement referred to in subsection (2).
A person aggrieved by the Chief Immigration Officer’s decision under subsection (2) or (3) may, within seven days of that decision having been communicated to him, appeal to the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board.
Notwithstanding subsection (1)(b) and (d), where a Caymanian holds himself out to be the father of a child born out of wedlock, the status or domicile of the Caymanian shall not be taken into account unless —
he is able to prove to the satisfaction of the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board that he is in fact the father of the child;
under the Affiliation Law (1995 Revision), he has been adjudged to be the putative father of the child; or
he has been ordered to pay a weekly sum of money for the maintenance and education of the child.

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