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Specific Purpose or Event Work Visa — Short-Term Secondment

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Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

The current linked Work Visa form lists a manager, senior or specialist business person on a short-term secondment in a Kiribati company or subsidiary of an overseas company.

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Limits of the record
  • The official Work Visa form is currently linked by the Kiribati Immigration Division, but its PDF path dates to 2020. Current detailed legal requirements and later amendments to the procedures manual are not established by this form.

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The 2020 short-term secondment row expressly calls for a recognised job offer, position evidence, secondment terms and sufficient funds. The current work-visa form lists the category and asks for a job offer in its general checklist, although the form also permits answering No to the job-offer question.

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Limits of the record
  • The current form has a Yes/No job-offer question and a general all-applicant offer checklist. Its application to this specific subcategory and the current legal effect of detailed 2020 manual conditions are not fully reconciled.
  • https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Immigration-Procedures-2020.pdf
    Manager, senior or Recognised job offer Up to 12 months Up to 12 further months specialist business (24 months in total) Evidence of people on short term applicant’s position secondments in a Kiribati company or Terms of secondment, subsidiary of an including duration overseas company Sufficient funds
  • https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Work-Visa-FINAL.pdf
    F1. Do you have a job offer in Kiribati? Yes □ No □ Go to Section G ‘Declaration by applicant’
  • https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Work-Visa-FINAL.pdf
    All applicants must provide: • Completed, signed application form □ • Appropriate fee (Contact visaofficer@mfa.gov.ki for details on payment, or go to www.mfa.gov.ki/immigration for more information). □ • Two passport-sized colour photographs □ • Passport or travel document □ • Medical certificates if required □ • Police certificates if required □ • A job offer, including a job description, details of pay, and conditions of the proposed employment □ • Evidence of qualifications relevant to the job offer □ • Evidence of work experience relevant to the job offer

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 short-term secondment row covers managerial, senior or specialist business people. The manual defines specialists by advanced technical expertise and proprietary knowledge of the organisation.

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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 or Recognised job offer Up to 12 months Up to 12 further months specialist business (24 months in total) Evidence of people on short term applicant’s position secondments in a Kiribati company or Terms of secondment, subsidiary of an including duration overseas company 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.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The 2020 short-term-secondment row is tied to specified secondment terms and the general specific-purpose rule requires time-bound work. It does not establish general open work or family-accompaniment rights.

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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 or Recognised job offer Up to 12 months Up to 12 further months specialist business (24 months in total) Evidence of people on short term applicant’s position secondments in a Kiribati company or Terms of secondment, subsidiary of an including duration overseas company Sufficient funds
  • https://www.mfa.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Immigration-Procedures-2020.pdf
    15. Specific Purpose or Event work visa Applicants may be granted a Specific Purpose or Event work visa and entry permission if the immigration officer is satisfied: a. the applicant will be in Kiribati to complete a specific purpose of event described in Column A in the table on the next page b. the applicant has demonstrated that they meet the requirements set out in Column B in the table on the next page c. the work is time-bound (not permanent or open) d. the applicant is suitably qualified to undertake the work e. the applicant has an approved sponsor (if applicable) f. the applicant meets health and character requirements.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

An initial grant may be up to 12 months, with up to 12 further months and a 24-month total. A further visa is limited to completing the original purpose.

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Limits of the record
  • These category-specific durations and further-visa limits are from the official 2020 procedures manual. The current immigration portal lists a general Work Visa renewal fee but does not confirm these detailed limits or later amendments. Present legal effect is unresolved.
  • A direct longer-term residence progression for this particular work subcategory is not established.
  • 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.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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