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\u201cWe have to be careful,\u201d Guyana Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo cautioned during a recent press conference as he related how the Immigration Department and the government by extension were now dealing with a bombardment of requests for Guyanese passports and citizenship.<\/p>

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\u201cSuddenly people coming in for passports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGetting Guyanese citizenship is now suddenly enormously valuable for many people.<\/p>

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\u201cSome people who would never look back to Guyana in all these years are now looking to find a great grandparent who had Guyanese blood to get a Guyanese passport because there is value in it,\u201d the Vice President related.<\/p>

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But the value Jagdeo speaks of has little to do with how the Guyanese passport is ranked internationally. It deals directly with how the benefits from the burgeoning oil and gas sector can be accessed by locals now that the government has enacted local content laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of this country must benefit from the industry,\u201d Jagdeo assured noting that the government will do what needs to be done to protect Guyanese individuals and businesses.<\/p>

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\u201cWe want to keep it like that and grow it in a way\u2026 not to be exclusionary but our people have to benefit and we will do whatever it takes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The local content law specifies clearly who a Guyanese is in order to benefit from the oil and gas proceeds. The law also spells out what a Guyanese company is and mandates the percentage of Guyanese that must serve in management and the wider organisational staffing.<\/p>

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That law was passed in December and came into force immediately, it is against this backdrop that Jagdeo spoke about the sudden rush for Guyanese citizenship and associate travel documents.\u00a0\u2014 News Room Guyana<\/em><\/p>

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\u201cWe have to be careful,\u201d Guyana Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo cautioned during a recent press conference as he related how the Immigration Department and the government by extension were now dealing with a bombardment of requests for Guyanese passports and citizenship. \u201cSuddenly people coming in for passports,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting Guyanese citizenship is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGuyanese passports, citizenship suddenly in high demand - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guyanese passports, citizenship suddenly in high demand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWe have to be careful,\u201d Guyana Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo cautioned during a recent press conference as he related how the Immigration Department and the government by extension were now dealing with a bombardment of requests for Guyanese passports and citizenship. \u201cSuddenly people coming in for passports,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting Guyanese citizenship is now […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-09T23:58:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Guyana-Passports-700x430-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"430\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Guyanese passports, citizenship suddenly in high demand\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-09T23:58:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-09T23:58:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":10,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:700\/h:430\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Guyana-Passports-700x430-1.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guyanese-passports-citizenship-suddenly-in-high-demand\/\",\"name\":\"Guyanese passports, citizenship suddenly in high demand - 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