Resident Student Re-entry Exemption

Subject to this section, a person who satisfies the Principal Immigration Officer that he comes into any of the following categories shall be entitled to enter Tuvalu from any place outside Tuvalu without having obtained a permit under this Act —

(h) a student of any age both of whose parents are or whose only parent is resident in Tuvalu, who is re-entering Tuvalu on vacation from or on completion of studies at a university, university college, school or other educational establishment;

who is re-entering Tuvalu on vacation from or on completion of studies at a university, university college, school or other educational establishment;

(h) a student of any age both of whose parents are or whose only parent is resident in Tuvalu, who is re-entering Tuvalu on vacation from or on completion of studies at a university, university college, school or other educational establishment;

(a) When any person referred to in subsection (1) ceases to hold or enjoy the employment, appointment, status or privileges which entitled him under this section or those paragraphs (as the case may be) to enter Tuvalu without a permit, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a person seeking to enter Tuvalu with effect from the date when he ceases to hold such employment or appointment or enjoy such

status or privileges, as the case may be; and if on the expiry of 3 months from such date he shall not have been granted a permit under this Act, his presence and the presence of his family and dependants in Tuvalu shall thereupon become unlawful: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any dependant or member of the family of a person as aforesaid, if such dependant or member is in possession of a valid permit lawfully issued to him under this Act.