{"id":8476,"date":"2011-05-11T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2011-05-11T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:10:49","slug":"no-more-work-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/no-more-work-permits","title":{"rendered":"No More Work Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Immigration is moving towards a paperless system and will no longer be issuing work permits.<\/p>\n<p>According to Minister of Immigration and Foreign Affairs Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette made the announcement Monday that his ministry is now issuing work visas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Symonette said the visas take the form of a credit card and are electronically readable.<\/p>\n<p>The status of the many non-Bahamians that flock to The Bahamas for work will now be electronically monitored as they will have to travel with their work visas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Immigration Department is moving towards a paperless system that will use visas which will take the form of a credit card and can be read electronically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-tech","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}