http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/difference-between-us-green-card-us-citizenship.html

I think your point is that PRC holders are like green card holders. However, there is a fundamental difference, in that there is a path for green card holders to become US citizens. No such path currently exists for PRC’s to become status holders.

The man who claimed that no member or representative of the PLP ever made a racially hostile statement (EVER!) trying to rile up even more hate.

Isn’t your own family a fairly recent transplant from the Caribbean? (apologies if this is not the case but please clarify)

I can think of another 20 Bermudians who are now living in Australia
Another 20 who are living in Europe.

I know it may not fit your agenda but Bermuda is hurting for warm bodies.
Rilling up the xenophobic expatriate haters with baseless numbers and promoting tribal fear mongering does no good for Bermuda at all.
Putting aside the issues of morality with regards to deporting long time, tax paying, hard working contributing expatriates; the first people to be hurt by the fall off population will be those in the civil service.

• 1,237 Spouses of PRC holders;

• 2,960 Children of PRC holders;

• 7,500 persons on work permits; without a term limit.

Whether it be via removal of term limits or economic and emotional extortion, “the game is afoot”.

* 2010 Population and Housing Census

Anyone who can’t see this is truly narrow minded. The same sort of person who would think that everyone who arrived after 1609 is not a real Bermudian. Pathetic.

AMEND THE LAW OR take the PERMANENT out of PRC PLEASE.

What is the big problem with allowing those that want to work hard and be productive members of this society have PRC? ..and as long as they continue to be productive a path to status? How many are we talking about, a few hundred, and out of them how many really want status vs PRC? Promote from within, there are some very smart and capable expats on the island right now. Let them submit proposals on what they would do if granted PRC, allow them to grow the economy though new business development. They’re already here and many of them are being underutilized due to the singularity of work permits.

..and stop with the high-net-worth-crap, they-aint-coming-hur-cause-they aint-nofin-to-do-here! Color this island BORING! crap music, crap bars, crap stores, crap laws and frankly crap citizenry that complains about everything and is against anything not “Bermudian”. Get over it people, we need middle class jobs and middle class work ethics and middle class family values and middle class spending. It’s this desire to appear “rich” that is driving most of societies ills.

Lets stop chasing some end of the rainbow pot of gold dream. Realize that hard work and developing sustainable living programs and educating the youth, not about the past, but to prepare them for the future are what we need to be doing. After all, the water is rising.

Now, go put your work clothes on, go and leave your mark.

When you adopt a child you become the child’s parent – completely by choice. If one parent is Bermudian, the child should be able to have status at the age of 18.

Depending on your point of view this will either be a moral victory for human rights, or interference from outside.

Bermudians such as you ‘haha’ (above)are so self centered that you give the rest of us a bad name. You and people like you disgust me.

How do we address people who want the right to have a full life in Bermuda in exchange for being productive residents, but without ‘full citizenship or status’? What are the challenges with the current PRC process that needs to be changed?

Chris – November 13, 2013 at 10:21 pm

The problem isn’t just with those born here. I am a British citizen who works for a large Reinsurer here, and have lived here for 11 years. My team employs 12 Bermudians, my company many more. My wife and I have 3 kids, 2 of which were born here, the other was 18 months old, so this is all she knows. We want to stay, (stay not become Bermudian, I am proudly British) but if on my daughters’ 18th birthday she is asked to leave, then we all leave (of course). We’d do all we can to keep people here, but jobs would be lost and replaced (probably in New York), so we’d all lose, and that doesn’t seem sensible?

And then you’ll complain about how there is more unemployment, of course.

Of course another plan might be to have a repeat of LBE’s ‘fornicate in the bushes’ but I leave that up to our younger folk.

Fahy has yet to lose our trust. Until them I will trust him (well, as much as a politician can be trusted).

— RG July 30, 2013

Selling of status in other countries

• In St. Kitts the going rate is US$250;

• It is $4 million in Cyprus;

• A Dominican passport costs $100k;

• In the US, one would need to invest $1m in a US business in exchange for a visa, not citizenship;

• In Portugal, immigration is linked to the purchase of a property while in Hungary it is linked to the purchase of government bonds;

• In Ireland, 500,000 euros o buys you a residence permit.

How much is Bermudian status worth?

“And for goodness sakes, let’s not put a massive price tag on the application fee, but rather charge them the same administration fee that a spouse of Bermudian pays when applying for Bermudian status”

— Phil Barnett, Bermuda Sun, July 12 ,2012

So for $489, Mr Barnett is encouraging the OBA to sell Bermudian status?

“Another area of Immigration that we will be looking at this year will be the concept of Commercial Immigration. We expect to engage the community in a robust discussion around global trends that are being employed to facilitate direct inward investment. You will know that stimulating the economy continues to be the mission of this Government.

Just last month technical officers attended a Summit in the United Kingdom to better understand the concept of commercial immigration and to review the various models that countries all around the globe are using to drive investment, create jobs and stimulate hotel development.

Models being used by close to 20 countries were presented and studied. These included St. Kitts, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Malta, Mauritus, the US, the UK, Canada, Singapore, Monaco, Portugal, Latvia and many others.”