Amended Immigration Policy St. Maarten
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On Thursday, April 29th 2021, the Minister of Justice published, in the National Gazette (‘Landscourant’), a Ministerial Decree that constitutes a number of enhancements to the Guidelines of 2012 (‘Richtlijnen 2012’) pertaining to the application of the National Ordinance on Admittance and Expulsion (‘Landsverordening toelating en uitzetting / Ltu’). The aim of this adaptation of the Immigration Policy is to emphasize and give further content to the policy point of departure that St. Maarten, being a small and fragile economy, must apply a restrictive Immigration Policy.
Though it is common knowledge that immigration policy in particular is a fluid issue that needs to be adapted to the ever-changing socio-economic factors of society, the Immigration Policy as reflected in the Guidelines of 2012 had not been updated by previous Justice Ministers in the past
Published: 29 April 2021
PHILIPSBURG: - On Thursday, April 29th, 2021, the Minister of Justice published, in the National Gazette (‘Landscourant’), a Ministerial Decree that constitutes a number of enhancements to the Guidelines of 2012 (‘Richtlijnen 2012’) pertaining to the application of the National Ordinance on Admittance and Expulsion (‘Landsverordening toelating en uitzetting / Ltu’). The aim of this adaptation of the Immigration Policy is to emphasize and give further content to the policy point of departure that St. Maarten, being a small and fragile economy, must apply a restrictive Immigration Policy.
Though it is common knowledge that immigration policy, in particular, is a fluid issue that needs to be adapted to the ever-changing socio-economic factors of society, the Immigration Policy as reflected in the Guidelines of 2012 had not been updated by previous Justice Ministers in the past nine years. The devastating effects of Hurricane Irma in S