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COUNTRY COVERAGE RECORD

Anguilla

destination authority catalogued · 28 distinct official sources
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Destination preparation

No guided preparation pathway available

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Destination authority

Immigration Department; Governor (including BOTC registration/naturalisation); Labour; Higher Education Licensing Board; Anguillian Status Commission; Attorney General's Chambers for published nationality services; Select Anguilla Agency catalogued

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Documents from this country

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DESTINATION PREPARATION

Preparation pathways for Anguilla

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No destination preparation pathway is available for Anguilla.

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DESTINATION AUTHORITY

Official authority record

This record identifies the government authority and current channel boundaries. It is independent from whether Wayfinder has released a preparation pathway.

Governed authority release

Immigration Department; Governor (including BOTC registration/naturalisation); Labour; Higher Education Licensing Board; Anguillian Status Commission; Attorney General's Chambers for published nationality services; Select Anguilla Agency

Active release 1; only the approved active release is public

Filing boundary

Anguilla has no universal immigration, work, status, nationality, business, or filing channel. Government-hosted revised-law PDFs show law at 31 December 2022. The official disclaimer calls them unofficial, potentially incomplete and delayed versions; confirm the purchased Revised Edition, Gazette, and authority before filing. eVisa strict TLS verification failed with an incomplete issuer chain on 2026-07-14. Do not transmit applicant data, automate the portal, or bypass certificate checks. An eVisa does not guarantee admission, and business travel does not authorize employment. Visitor permission may be granted for up to six months and extended only to a maximum of 12 months from entry. The enacted digital-nomad route allows up to 12 months and a possible further 12 months, but no verified current form, fee, or filing channel was found. Ordinary permanent residence is Governor-decided; work-permit duties remain. Paid course-connected student work needs Dean approval and a Board student-work permit. Work Permit Regulations 2023 repeal C105-1. New applications and renewals cost EC$300; variations and extensions also cost EC$300, replacement EC$100. A Notice of Grant is not a permit; occupation fee and levy are paid to Inland Revenue before Labour issues the certificate and Immigration endorses status. The Act makes the employer the authority payer. A regulation permits an agreed contribution up to 50% from a skilled or professional employee; collect none without Labour and Anguilla-counsel confirmation. Schedule 1 occupation fees and post-2023 amendments require a live check. Electronic-form recognition is not a public filing API. A business licence, entity registration, work permit, and immigration status are separate. ExCo records confirm restricted-sector policy and a 2026 moratorium direction, but complete gazetted Orders, implementing instrument, and effective date were not found. Anguillian status, BOTC, and British citizenship are separate. The ten-year Anguillian-status route has an Act/form absence-rule discrepancy. BOTC registration/naturalisation forms, fees, signatures, Governor channels, and review routes require authority confirmation. The Attorney General's Chambers page lists only its BOTC-naturalisation and British-citizenship-registration services, not every BOTC filing channel. Economic residence is authorised-agent-only. A 2024 amendment is confirmed as enacted, but its text and implementing regulations were not located; current business-property work claims, dependant rules, and changed fees remain research-only. Economic residence does not itself establish Anguillian status, BOTC, or British citizenship. No public API or automated end-to-end submission was verified. This release activates no workflow, form pack, eligibility decision, monitoring, representative filing, payment, portal action, email transmission, or government submission.

Representative participation

Paid preparation of legal documents falls within acting as a solicitor under the Legal Profession Act. Local counsel must be admitted and enrolled and hold a current annual practising certificate. Foreign counsel needs the prescribed Bar Council and High Court process, a valid work permit, and a matter-specific temporary practising certificate. A narrow exclusion for preparing a letter of power of attorney does not let a POA holder practise law, sign applicant declarations, or use an authority account. Route actors remain controlling: an employer applies for an employee work permit, a self-employed person applies for that permit personally, a licensed institution forwards student-permit material, and economic-residence applications go only through a currently authorised Select Anguilla agent. A third party may supply eVisa information where the portal permits, but that is not blanket representative authority and does not replace admission checks or required signatures. The Commission may grant an Anguillian-status application without a hearing. If it decides a hearing is necessary, the applicant ordinarily attends personally; representation, including counsel, is allowed only when the Commission accepts cogent inability to attend. Hearing evidence by email, video, or other technology does not create general e-filing or initial-application signature authority. BOTC and British-citizenship filings require the route's current signature, capacity, adviser, and local Governor or UKVI channel rules. Attorney status, hearing representation, authorised-agent status, or a collection letter for passport documents does not transfer across routes. Confirm the current practising roll, mandate, receiving authority, signature, capacity, and account rules before any representative action; never share or automate applicant, employer, agent, or authority credentials.

Official authority links

Current eVisa portal — applicant handoff only; automation blocked by TLS-chain failurehttps://evisa.gov.ai/
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Executive Council record confirming restricted-business policy — Gazette Order still requiredhttps://gov.ai/document/2024-04-10-125040_1579627602.pdf
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Government revised Higher Education Licensing Act — institution, Board, and student-permit actor ruleshttps://gov.ai/document/education/H4-Higher%20Education%20Licensing%20Act.pdf
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Official Gazette Work Permit Regulations 2023 — repeals C105-1https://gov.ai/document/labour/Work%20Permit%20Regulations%2C%202023%20-%20G.pdf
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Government revised Economic Residence Act through 2022 — superseded parts require 2024 texthttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Acts/A064-Anguilla%20Economic%20Residence%20Act.pdf
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Government revised Anguillian Status Act — ten-year absence-rule conflict cautionhttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Acts/A072-Anguillian%20Status%20Act.pdf
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Government revised Immigration and Passport Act through 2022 — current Gazette confirmation requiredhttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Acts/I005-Immigration%20and%20Passport%20Act.pdf
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Government revised Labour Relations Act — work-permit authority and labour-market ruleshttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Acts/L007-Labour%20%28Relations%29%20Act.pdf
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Government revised Legal Profession Act through 2022 — current roll and practising certificate requiredhttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Acts/L033-Legal%20Profession%20Act.pdf
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Government revised Economic Residence Regulations through 2022 — current amendment text missinghttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Regulations/A064-Anguilla%20Economic%20Residence%20Regulations.pdf
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Anguillian Status Regulations — prescribed forms, fees, and certificateshttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Regulations/A072-Anguillian%20Status%20Regulations.pdf
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Higher Education Student Permit Regulations — Board and Dean actor ruleshttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Regulations/H004-Higher%20Education%20%28Student%20Permit%29%20Regulations.pdf
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Government revised immigration regulations through 2022 — visitor forms and scheduled feeshttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Regulations/I005-Immigration%20and%20Passport%20Regulations.pdf
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Government revised ordinary permanent-residence regulations — economic-route legacy material excludedhttps://gov.ai/Legislation/Regulations/I005-Permanent%20Residence%20Permit%20Regulations.pdf
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Licensing of Businesses Act 2021 — business licence remains separate from immigrationhttps://ird.gov.ai/Content/documents/Act%2024%20-%20Licensing%20of%20Businesses%20Act%2C%202021.pdf
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Government law-library disclaimer — online revisions are unofficial and may be incompletehttps://laws.gov.ai/?selected_page=disclaimer
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Executive Council record of proposed business-licensing restrictions — Gazette Order still requiredhttps://www.gov.ai/document/2024-04-09-074728_334359413.pdf
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Executive Council record confirming 2024 economic-residence amendment — not substitute for enacted texthttps://www.gov.ai/document/2025-01-09-053455_1904299404.pdf
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Executive Council record of 2026 business-licence moratorium direction — implementing instrument and effective date requiredhttps://www.gov.ai/document/2026-04-14-031901_1947622840.pdf
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May 2026 Student Permit and Student Work Permit process — current Board handoff guidancehttps://www.gov.ai/forms/immigration/Student%20Permit%20and%20Student%20Work%20Permit%20Process%20May%202026.pdf
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Attorney General's Chambers — published BOTC-naturalisation and British-citizenship-registration services onlyhttps://www.gov.ai/service/attorney-generals-chambers
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Current immigration forms index — forms and process guidance require route validationhttps://www.gov.ai/service/forms-immigration-forms
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Current Resident Stamp guidance — spouse route and Immigration Department channelhttps://www.gov.ai/service/immigration--labour/resident-stamps
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Current UKVI BOTC naturalisation guidance — Governor-delegated decision frameworkhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/naturalisation-as-a-botc-nationality-policy-guidance/naturalisation-as-a-botc-at-discretion-accessible
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Current UKVI BOTC child-registration guidance — Governor-delegated functions and route distinctionshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/registration-as-a-botc-children-nationality-policy-guidance/registration-as-a-botc-children-accessible
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British Nationality Act 1981 — BOTC and British-citizenship legal frameworkhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/contents
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Current Select Anguilla authorised-agent list — programme filing onlyhttps://www.selectanguilla.com/authorised-agents/
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Current Select Anguilla residence programme — post-2024 claims remain research-onlyhttps://www.selectanguilla.com/permanent-residency/
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DOCUMENT-COUNTRY RULES

Rules for records from Anguilla

These rules are keyed to where a record was issued, residence or citizenship, and police-history facts. The destination pathway is stated on every pack.

Not published

No source-specific document rules are published for records from Anguilla.

This does not mean records from this country are accepted without review. The controlling destination checklist and official instructions still apply, and unsupported country-document scope remains held for source research.