What immigration status and rights result, how long do they last, can family be included, and what happens if the special qualifying circumstance ends?
Result: entry to Tuvalu without a permit. When the person ceases to hold the employment, appointment, status or privileges that entitled them to enter Tuvalu without a permit, they are deemed a person seeking to enter Tuvalu from that date; if no permit has been granted within 3 months, their presence and that of their family and dependants becomes unlawful, except for a family member or dependant who holds their own valid permit.
See recorded sources
Limits of the record- The Act sets no fixed duration or renewal procedure for this exemption; it follows the qualifying status.
- https://tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1968/1968-0010/1968-0010_2.pdf
(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
- https://tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1968/1968-0010/1968-0010_2.pdf
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.
