WORC and Immigration Appeals Tribunal facing another court challenge Loop Cayman Islands

Black Immigrant Daily News

A notice of a motion was filed in Court on August 12, 2022 requesting that the decisions of the director of Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman (WORC) and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT) be set aside as they relate to the refusal of the grant of Permission to Continue Work made by a man working in the construction industry.

The reasons for the request to set aside the decisions are that, allegedly, they were erroneous, unlawful, in breach of natural justice and at variance with the regulations, and in clear contravention of Sections 24(8) and 66 of the Immigration (Transition) law 2022.

The motion also says that the aforementioned decisions have placed the man’s employers in a predicament, being that the man heads up the works in relation to a school building contract and completion of work on the Court Building, situated in the old Scotia Bank Building. More specifically, the motion says that the “projects are now nearing completion and are therefore fraught with “breach of contract” implications” for the man and his employers.

In addition to setting aside the decisions of the director of WORC and the IAT, the man is seeking a declaration that the director of WORC and the IAT be “restrained and prohibited from any and all actions the objective of which is the detention of the Applicant, and or removal from the Cayman Islands, under any provision of the Border Control Law or the Immigration (Transition) Law (2022 Revision) until an Appeal is determined.”

The motion adds to a mounting number of challenges submitted in recent times in relation to the validity of the decisions of the immigration authorities in the Cayman Islands.

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