Work Permit Policy: New working categories following the end of free movement for European Union nationals

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A decision made on 16 November 2020

MINISTERIAL DECISION REFERENCE: MD-HA-2020-0074
Decision Date: 5 November 2020
DECISION SUMMARY TITLE: Publication of Work Permit Policy: new working categories following the end of free movement for European Union nationals.
DECISION SUMMARY AUTHOR:	Acting Director, Immigration & Nationality	IS THE DECISION SUMMARY PUBLIC OR EXEMPT? (if exempt state the relevant article/paragraph of the Freedom of Information Law/Regulations)		Public
REPORT TITLE: Work Permit Policy (General Agreement on Trade in Services: Mode 4)
REPORT AUTHOR OR NAME OF PERSON GIVING REPORT: (if different from Decision Summary Author)	Acting Director, Immigration & Nationality	IS THE REPORT PUBLIC OR EXEMPT (if exempt state the relevant article/paragraph of the Freedom of Information Law/Regulations)		Public
DECISION AND REASON FOR THE DECISION: The Minister for Home Affairs has approved amendments to the Work Permit Policy (“the Policy”) in relation to the employment of persons following the end of EU Free Movement on 1 January 2021 and decided to publish the Policy. The UK has now left the EU, and the UK’s Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill will end the free movement of EU nationals in the UK at the end of the transition period (31 December 2020). This means that the relationship with the EU that extended to Jersey via the UK, will also fall away and as such the Minister for Home Affairs has determined the basis for the Island’s Future Border & Immigration System (FBIS) and the Work Permit Policy as an intrinsic part of that system. The need to make amendments to the Policy is due to the previous Policy being in place to only account for a small number of positions that needed to be filled from outside of Europe, specifically as a result of local employers not being able to fill the roles from within the EU. The Policy has therefore been amended to account for the much larger volume of persons who would require to have immigration permission to work in the Island in a much wider range of vocations.
RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS: None as a consequence of this decision.
ACTION REQUIRED: Customs and Immigration Service to make the appropriate amendments to the Policy and publish it, having effect for any person requiring immigration permission who arrives in Jersey from 1 January 2021.
SIGNATURE:			POSITION: Connétable Len Norman Minister for Home Affairs
DATE SIGNED:			EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE DECISION: