The new immigration regulation that requires all non-resident aliens register with the Bureau of Immigration and pay a fee of $25.
The new Immigration regulation was adopted by the President on July 16 and will become effective on August 15, 2010.
The president said that because the regulation does not becomes effective until mid-August, the extension will give all aliens adequate time to register this year, the President has issued a directive extending the deadline for registration for this year only to September 30.
Only members of diplomatic missions and their families, citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the United States, aliens present in Palau on a tourist visa, and aliens who depart Palau before the first day of September, are exempt from the alien registration requirement.
Any alien required to register who fails to register as set forth above shall be fined $5 per day for each day that he or she is present in Palau without having registered.
The Office of the President urges all aliens required to register to participate in the registration process, even those aliens whose current immigration or labor status in Palau is not in compliance with the law or is otherwise irregular.
Toribiong has issued a directive declaring an amnesty for all aliens whose current immigration or labor status in Palau is not in compliance with the law or is otherwise irregular.
The illegal alien will be given time to bring his or her immigration or labor status into compliance with the law or depart Palau, by December 31, 2010.
No civil or criminal or deportation proceedings in relation to an alien’s immigration or labor status will be brought against an alien as long as the alien registers as required and brings his or her immigration or labor status into compliance with the law or departs the Republic of Palau, by December 31, 2010. This amnesty expires as of 11:59 p.m., December 31, 2010.
Conversely, any alien who does not register as set forth above and whose current immigration or labor status in Palau is not in compliance with the law or is otherwise irregular shall immediately be subject to all applicable criminal and civil proceedings and penalties and to deportation from Palau.
