Broad changes to the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law
2012 (the Law) were approved by the States
Assembly on 30 March 2022.
The Law controls access to housing and employment in Jersey. It
affects everyone who wants to live, work and employ people in the
Island, regardless of their nationality.
The current system of Entitled, Entitled for Work, Registered
and Licensed permissions will be replaced with long-term and
short-term permissions to give the Government more control over the
number of migrants receiving permission to work and live
permanently in Jersey.
The existing permissions will be replaced with nine-month,
four-year, 10-year and long-term permissions. The amendment will
also remove the ability for a business to "recycle" a
permission between employees and tighten the criminal record checks
required.
