Montserrat adds ordinary permanent residence after 15 years

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Possible change

Montserrat’s Immigration (Permanent Residence Permits) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 create an ordinary permanent-residence path after 15 years of ordinary residence, with employment and savings/property criteria.

Field	Triage result
Jurisdiction	Montserrat
Impact	eligibility
Confidence	medium
Primary source needed	No
Discovery tier	verification

Discovery source

S.R.O. 2 of 2026 — Immigration (Permanent Residence Permits) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Reviewer checklist

• Locate and cite the current primary legal or government source.
• Classify this as editorial/navigation, operational guidance, or a substantive legal change.
• Confirm the effective date and any transition rules.
• Identify the exact dataset entities and fields affected.
• Add or update a regression invariant with any data correction.
• Cross-check every sentence in the public brief against the evidence below.

Verified evidence

• Primary PDF: gov.ms S.R.O. 2 of 2026 (reported effective 1 Feb 2026).
• Ordinary PR path: 15 years ordinary residence, employment criteria, and either local savings averaging at least EC$5,000 or local real property worth at least EC$50,000.
• Distinct from economic residence (S.R.O. 8/1998, EC$400k investment).
• Dataset: new route montserrat-permanent-residence-ordinary; release f2d9d54d94c2e345.

Public brief

Montserrat’s 2026 permanent-residence regulations add an ordinary path after fifteen years of ordinary residence, with employment requirements and either local bank savings averaging at least EC$5,000 or local property worth at least EC$50,000. This sits alongside the older economic-residence investment route and is not citizenship by investment.

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Published to @flagpaths as message 50.

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Shipped in release f2d9d54d94c2e345 (and Telegram where published).