{"id":111941,"date":"2020-06-11T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=111941"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:27:49","slug":"immigration-department-meets-with-jamaican-honorary-consul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/immigration-department-meets-with-jamaican-honorary-consul\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Department meets with Jamaican Honorary Consul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jamaican Honorary Consul in Antigua and Barbuda, Onika Campbell-Foie, paid a courtesy call on Immigration Department for a meeting with Chief Immigration Officer (CIO), Katrina Yearwood, and her senior staff.<\/p>

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The meeting, at the department\u2019s request, served as an introduction to the CIO and her staff and to give the diplomat an understanding of the workings of the department and some of the concerns as they relate to the large Jamaican community resident in Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

CIO Yearwood congratulated the honorary consul on her appointment, and she expressed her department\u2019s desire to resolve many of the issues of concerns regarding Jamaicans.<\/p>

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\u201cThe Jamaica community in the country is perhaps the largest and it is good that we now have someone with whom we can discuss the varied immigration issues that come up from time to time. Some of the laws on immigration have been updated and this information needs to be communicated not just to the Jamaicans but to every other nationality group resident here,\u201d Yearwood stated.<\/p>

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Campbell-Foie, in her response, said she recognizes that the Jamaicans afforded an extension of stay are here as a courtesy and not a right and that she is willing to work along with the department to solve whatever problems may have existed in the past between the department and Jamaicans.<\/p>\n

The meeting then went into a lengthy discussion on some of the problems with which the department has had to contend over the years. One of the main ones relates to the growing issue where minors travel from Jamaica to Antigua ostensibly in the company of a family member coming to meet a mother or father in Antigua.<\/p>

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\u201cWe don\u2019t know if the person with whom the child is traveling is truly a relative, and quite often, we get reports that the parent back in Jamaica may be unaware of the fact that the child is traveling. These issues border on human-trafficking and it is something that we don\u2019t want to encourage or to be a part of,\u201d Senior officer in charge of headquarters, Nigel Emmanuel stated. Additionally, these children end up in the school system and therefore become a burden on the country.<\/p>\n

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Another problem deals with sports; this is where local football clubs contract Jamaicans to play in the football competition. However, at the end of the season, these players quite often remain in the country illegally as they never return to the immigration department to have their status upgraded.<\/p>

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After listening to the concerns and the issues, both Yearwood and Campbell-Foie agreed to meet again to further discuss the matter and to agree on a set of recommendations that would lead to solutions.<\/p>

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The other senior staff in attendance were the head of enforcement, including VC Bird International, Wesley Simon, head of Intelligence, Teresa Thomas and head of extensions, Donalie Hunte-Daley<\/p>\n

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