The Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board issued an advisory Friday that anyone  granted permanent residency, the right to be Caymanian, or who has been issued an employment rights certificate should clear unpaid fees by the end of next month.

Those outstanding charges, include the annual fees mandated by the employment rights certificate.

If that payment is not made, approval of those immigration grants could be revoked or declared null and void.

Cayman Islands immigration officials could not state how many people were delinquent on the charges, or how much was owed in total.

“The board is very much concerned that new Caymanians and permament residents are not paying their fees,” Cayman Status and Permanent Residency Board Chairman Waide DaCosta said. “Their applications were granted in good faith, and it is disappointing that some of the new grantees are not taking the necessary steps to effect the validility of their new status. In some cases, this means that they are working illegally.”

Employers are asked to assist the Immigration Department in recovering outstanding fees by requiring employees who are permanent residents and new Caymanians to provide them with evidence that their immigration fees are current.