What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?
The 2020 table identifies managers, senior persons, executives and specialists transferred within an enterprise. Its definitions describe managers and executives by organisational authority and specialists by advanced technical and proprietary knowledge. The current form lists the intra-corporate category but does not repeat these definitions.
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Limits of the record- These category-specific conditions are stated in the official 2020 procedures manual. The current immigration portal and linked work form do not establish their present legal effect or all later amendments.
- The evidence is the official Kiribati Immigration Procedures manual (2020). The supplied official material does not establish whether later amendments or operational guidance changed this rule by 2026-09-25.
- https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Immigration-Procedures-2020.pdf
Manager, senior, Evidence of Up to 12 months Up to 12 further months
executive or specialist applicant’s position (24 months in total)
business person
Terms of secondment,
seconded to Kiribati as
including duration
an intra-corporate
transferee Sufficient funds
- https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Immigration-Procedures-2020.pdf
Table Definitions:
• ‘Intra-Corporate Transferees’ means an employee of an enterprise of another
party that has been established in Kiribati through a branch, subsidiary or affiliate,
who is transferred to fill a position in the branch, subsidiary or affiliate of the
enterprise in Kiribati
• ‘Executive’ means a natural person within an organization who primarily directs
the management of the organization, exercises wide latitude in decision making,
and receives only general supervision or direction from higher level
• ‘Manager’ means a natural person within an organization who primarily directs
the organization, a department or subdivision of the organization, supervises and
controls the work of other supervisory employees, has the authority to hire and fire
or take other personnel actions, and exercises discretionary authority over day-
today operations
• ‘Specialists’ means a natural person within an organization who possesses
knowledge at an advanced level of technical expertise, and proprietary
knowledge of the organization’s service, research equipment, techniques or
management.
• ‘Contractual service supplier’ means a natural person of who is an employee of a
service supplier or an enterprise and:
o who enters Kiribati temporarily to perform a service pursuant to a contract
between his or her employer and an enterprise in Kiribati
o is sponsored by the enterprise in Kiribati
o is employed by an enterprise which has no commercial presence in the
territory of Kiribati
o receives his or her remuneration from that employer
o has qualifications from three or more years of formal post-secondary
school education with appropriate experience to provide the service.
• ‘Independent Service Supplier’ means a self-employed natural person who is a
service supplier entering Kiribati pursuant to a contract with an enterprise in, is
sponsored by the enterprise in Kiribati, and who has a qualification resulting from
three or more years of formal post-secondary school education and has
appropriate experience to provide the service.
• ‘Installers or Servicers Installer’ or servicer means a natural person of another Party
who is an installer or servicer of machinery or equipment, where such installation
or servicing by the supplying company is a condition of purchase of the said
machinery or equipment. An installer or servicer cannot perform services which
are not related to the service activity which is the subject of the contract.