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New authority to fight financial crime
The government has established the Office for Strategic Action on Illicit Finance, a centralised authority to lead the fight against financial crime.
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Cayman Compass
Pandemic job loss at centre of permanent residency battle
A woman whose permanent residency application was turned down by the Immigration Appeals Tribunal has filed a writ challenging the decision on the grounds that she was not a visiting tourist as outlined in the reason for turning her down.
Allison Rene Manning, a partner of a Caymanian man and mother of a Caymanian child, had taken her case to the tribunal after the director of Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman, known as WORC, rejected her application.
Her original application had been turned down after the WORC director said she had failed to meet the ‘legal and ordinary resident’ test because she was considered to be a ‘tourist visitor’ after her work permit was cancelled at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020. Her next work permit had been granted on 10 Feb. 2022.
