Guyana: Information on the situation of ethnic Chinese and on how to obtain permanent resident status
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1993 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GUY14591 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Guyana: Information on the situation of ethnic Chinese and on how to obtain permanent resident status, 1 June 1993, GUY14591, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac0360.html [accessed 19 May 2023] |
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According to a consular officer at the High Commission of Guyana in Ottawa, Guyana does not have a strictly defined and uniform system for granting permanent residence (22 June 1993). To obtain a visa that would allow residence in Guyana, a foreigner must first arrive in Guyana as a visitor, and once in Guyana, must approach the Ministry of Home Affairs to request a new visa or a visa extension (Ibid.). Visas that allow residence in Guyana cannot be obtained abroad (Ibid.). The visas that enable a foreigner to reside in Guyana can be valid for a definite or an indefinite period (Ibid.). A foreigner can request Guyanese nationality and be naturalized after residing in Guyana for five years (Ibid.).
Current information on a specific treatment of ethnic Chinese in Guyana could not be found among the available sources. However, please find attached some recent documents that refer to ethnic relations in Guyana in general. These documents refer mostly to politically-related conflicts between Indo- and Afro-Guyanese and demography, but without reference to a specific treatment of ethnic Chinese.
Additional and/or corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB.
Reference
High Commission of Guyana, Ottawa. 22 June 1993. Telephone Interview with Consular Officer.
Attachments
Americas Watch. October 1990. Electoral Conditions in Guyana. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. 18-20.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 418-419.
Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA). 1990. Guyana Human Rights Report 1989. Georgetown: GHRA, pp. 10-11.
Kurian, George Thomas, ed. 1992. Encyclopedia of the Third World, 4th ed. Vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, pp. 757-758.
