Honourable Vaden Delroy Williams, Minister with responsibility for Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services, accompanied by his Permanent Secretary Mr. Desmond Wilson, Deputy Secretary Mr. James Astwood and the Commissioner of Labour Mr. Edwin Taylor, accommodated a fruitful introductory meeting with Senior members of th...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the department of Registration and Citizenship, are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales, at the numbers provided, as it relates to their Permanent R...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services in collaboration with the Employment Services Department and the Immigration Department would like to remind the General Public that in accordance with Sections 32 of the Immigration Ordinance (2018 revised), which states: A permit issued may authorized a person – If i...

The Immigration Department located at Sam Harvey Building, Providenciales, will be closed from Monday 2nd November, 2020, to facilitate the relocation of the Department to the former Sammy Been Plaza, which is located on Airport Road.   The Department will resume normal operation from 9 am on Wednesday 4th November, 2020. During the period of clo...

On the 16th October 2010, at approximately 2:45 pm, an illegal Haitian migrant vessel was spotted by the Coastal Radar Unit and subsequently intercepted by the Marine Branch of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force in our territorial waters just off the coast of Providenciales. At approximately 4:54 am, the Marine branch arrived at the S...

On the 9th October 2010, at approximately 9:28 pm, an illegal Haitian migrant vessel was spotted by the Coastal Radar Unit and subsequently intercepted by the Marine Branch of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force in our territorial waters just off the coast of Providenciales. At approximately 4am, officers of the Marine branch arrived a...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the department of Registration and Citizenship, are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales, at the numbers provided, as it relates to their Naturalizat...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the department of Registration and Citizenship, are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales, at the numbers provided, for the collection of BOTC passpor...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services, in collaboration with the Immigration Department would like to advise the general public that Haitian National, Neltha Jean-Francois Hosse, was charged and taken before the Magistrate Court on Providenciales to answer to the offence of harbouring in accordance with Section 10...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales as it relates to applications for BOTC Passports and Naturali...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales. The telephone numbers are (649) 338 2982 /4121 for Grand Tur...

On the 12th of September 2020, at approximately 10:30 p.m. the Enforcement Unit at Providenciales was informed by 911 that the Coastal Radar has spotted a migrant vessel and that the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Marine Branch Police had intercepted an illegal Haitian vessel. The Enforcement Unit responded accordingly. An hour later, the Royal Tu...

The public is hereby advised that the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services, Three Degrees, Grand Turk will be temporarily closed to the General Public on Friday, 28th August 2020. Normal operating hours will resume on Monday 31st August, 2020, at 9a.m. For urgent queries please contact: Desmond Wilson        – dmw...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales. The telephone numbers are (649) 338 2982 /4121 for Grand Tur...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship hereby wishes to invite members of the public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales via telephone numbers (649) 338 2982 /4121 or email infobordercontrol@gov.tc as...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship are hereby inviting the following members of the general public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales. The telephone numbers are (649) 338 2982 /4121 for Grand Tur...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services in collaboration with the Departments of Labour and Immigration would like to remind the General Public that in accordance with Section 32 and 33 of the Immigration Ordinance of the 2018 Revised Laws of Turks and Caicos, Permits are authorized by the Director of Immigrations a...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services, in collaboration with the Labour Department, are hereby reminding persons to Register as unemployed today. Are you unemployed or someone in your family is facing unemployment? Have you been recently laid-off or made redundant? Or maybe you are seeking better employment. The ...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship hereby wishes to invite members of the public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk via telephone numbers (649) 338 2939 / 2982 or email infobordercontrol@gov.tc as it relates to the...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship hereby wishes to invite members of the public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Providenciales via telephone numbers (649) 338 4121 / 4123 or email infobordercontrol@gov.tc as it relates to...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services in collaboration with the Immigration Department, is pleased to announce the successful repatriation of 271 Haitian migrants to Haiti. The illegal migrants comprising 219 males and 52 females, were all repatriated on Saturday June 6, 2020. Based on information received fro...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services, in collaboration with the Department of Registration and Citizenship hereby wishes to invite members of the public to visit or contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk via telephone numbers (649) 338 2939 / 2982 or email infobordercontrol@gov.tc as it relates to the...

On Sunday May 31, 2020, at approximately 9:06 p.m. the Department of Immigration received a telephone call from Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force Marine Branch informing that reliable information was received that a vessel carrying illegal migrants was in the territorial waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands and more specifically, close ...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services in collaboration with the Labour and Employment Services in particular, would like to remind employers of their obligations and employees of their rights with regards to Lay-offs and short–time. We are conscious of the economic strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has placed on ...

The Mission of the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services is to secure the borders of the Turks and Caicos Islands and promote full employment of citizens while providing comprehensive migration management to enable people to visit, work and live here lawfully thereby ensuring and contributing to the national security ...

The Department of Registration and Citizenship under the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services wishes to invite the following applicants to contact the Customer Service Center in Grand Turk and Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands as of May 13, 2020: BOTC PASSPORTS READY FOR COLLECTION IN GRAND TURK 1. ...

Emergency Powers COVID 19, Phased One (1) Re-opening of Turks and Caicos Islands – Expansion of Services and for the re-opening of Essential Public Service, Phase 1B, May 11th, 2020. The Public is hereby advised, pursuant to the Expansion of Services, the Labour Tribunal will re-open on Monday 11th, 2020, the office hours of operations shall be fr...

The General Public is hereby advised that in keeping strict compliance with the guidelines as set out by the Ministry of Health, with respect to COVID-19 and in particular, social distancing, the Ministry of Immigration and Departments shall be adhering to the following at all our service locations, throughout the islands all our locations, until f...

The General Public is hereby reminded that in accordance with Section 32 and 33 of the Immigration Ordinance 2018 Revised, Permits are authorized by the Director of Immigrations and the Board or Commissioner of Labour for persons to reside or engage in gainful occupations and these Permit are issued with conditions or restrictions set out in the Pe...

Mr. Speaker, Good Morning. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to command the general public so far in adhering to the guidance issued by the Government and the Ministry of Health, and continue working together as one nation to combat this terrible virus. Mr. Speaker, I would like to update this Honourable House and the General Pub...

The Turks and Caicos Islands Government and in particular, the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, join with the United States Coast Guard, to express serious concerns surrounding ongoing illicit maritime migration efforts and strongly warn against such dangerous ...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services continues the battle of illegal migrants breaching the borders of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This week, thus far, shows multiple landings and interceptions of illegal migrant vessels mostly within the Northwest area of Providenciales. During the past week, we had the US Co...

The Department of Registration and Citizenship under the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labor & Employment Services wishes to invite the following applicants to contact the Customer Service Center in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands as of March 24, 2020: BOTC PASSPORTS READY FOR COLLECTION 1.      ACELINE  DORVAL 2...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services along with the Office of the Director of Prosecutions and the Attorney General Chambers continues to meet its Anti-money laundering and human smuggling objectives through training in keeping with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. As part of The Immigration Department ...

The Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services is pleased to announce that we are in possession of the final draft of the Population Policy document, as mentioned by the Hon. Minister during the last House of Assembly meeting. By way of background the company Kairi Consultants Ltd was awarded the contract to develop a Popu...

The Ministry of Health wishes to provide the following Coronavirus- COVID-19 update as of Wednesday, 11 March 2020: There are currently no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Turks and Caicos Islands. There are currently 2 suspected cases whose samples have been sent for testing. Results are expected within a week. The suspected cases have been qua...

The general and travelling public is hereby being asked to take note of the following provisions of the Turks and Caicos Islands Public and Environmental Health (Control Measures) (COVID-19) Regulations 2020 which came into effect on March 10, 2020: Refusal of entry of direct flight to the Islands originating from infected country  No flight ori...