Section 54Part 5 — Gainful Occupation of Non-Caymanians
Business visitors’ permit
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54. (1) Any person duly carrying on business in or from within the Islands who regularly throughout each year employs persons not legally and ordinarily resident in the Islands on a temporary basis, may make a single application in each calendar year to the Chief Immigration Officer for the issue, in each calendar year, of one or more business visitors’ permits and for more than one visit.
An application for business visitors’ permits shall be in respect of such number of persons and visits as the company, partnership or firm wishes to have granted and shall contain, in respect of each such person, such information as may be prescribed.
An application shall state the maximum number of times it is desired that each business visitor be admitted to the Islands in such year, his occupation and the maximum duration of the stay of each such business visitor during each visit.
No business visitors’ permit shall be issued for more than fourteen days on any one visit or in respect of a person who is ineligible to be granted a work permit by virtue of section 52(1).
The Chief Immigration Officer, in considering an application under this section, shall take into account such of the matters set out in section 44(2) to (4) as he considers relevant and, when granting business visitors’ permits, may impose such conditions and limitations as he thinks fit.
The annual fee, in respect of such business visitors’ permits, shall be such as may be laid down by regulations and shall be determined by the number of persons in respect of whom application is made and the number of visits per person in the relevant calendar year. 54A. Visitor’s Work Visa 54A. (1) A person, except a professional employee, other than a person who is ineligible for the grant of a work permit by virtue of section 52(1), who —
is employed full time by a company, individual or institution outside the Islands;
is coming to the Islands for up to five calendar days for the purpose of engaging in commercial activity with one or more persons or entities licensed to trade in the Islands under the Trade and Business Licensing Law (2007 Revision) or any other law; Immigration Law (2015 Revision) Section 54A c Revised as at 2nd day of July, 2015 Page 77
would otherwise require a work permit for the activity referred to in paragraph (b); and
is being sponsored in accordance with paragraph (b), may apply to an immigration officer upon arrival at a port of entry for the grant of a visitor’s work visa.
An immigration officer of the rank of Senior Immigration Officer or above, upon being satisfied that the applicant under subsection (1) —
is formally sponsored by one or more persons or entities licensed to trade in the Islands under the Trade and Business Licensing Law (2007 Revision) or any other law by virtue of a letter or letters (in the event that the applicant is conducting business with more than one local entity) of sponsorship in the prescribed form having been received by the Immigration Department prior to his arrival at the port of entry;
possesses a valid entry visa, if required;
is not a prohibited immigrant; and
has paid the prescribed non-refundable fee, may approve the grant of a visitor’s work visa valid for five calendar days.
A person granted a visitor’s work visa under this section shall be entitled to engage in commercial activity only with his sponsor or sponsors.
An application under subsection (1) may be refused on the ground that —
the applicant is required to have and does not possess a valid entry visa;
no letter or letters of sponsorship in the required form have been received by the Immigration Department in respect of the applicant;
the applicant is a prohibited immigrant;
in the opinion of the immigration officer the sponsorship of the applicant is not genuine; or
in the opinion of the immigration officer the applicant’s presence in the Islands is not conducive to the public good.
A visitor’s work visa issued under this section shall not be extended or renewed unless the Chief Immigration Officer is satisfied that there are exceptional circumstances and only then for a further five calendar days after which the holder shall leave the Islands unless authorised to remain under any other section of this Law.
A person may not hold more than one visitor’s work visa for the same sponsor or sponsors in the same calendar month. Section 55 Immigration Law Page 78 Revised as at 2nd day of July, 2015 c