🇬🇾 Working and relocating to Guyana

Immigration, labour and CSME

Immigration status and passports run through the Ministry of Home Affairs' Central Immigration and Passport Office, work-permit and labour matters sit with the Ministry of Labour and Manpower Planning, and CARICOM nationals in approved skill categories can instead apply for a CSME Free Movement/Skills Certificate.

Immigration and labour authorities

• Ministry of Home Affairs — Central Immigration & Passport Officemoha.gov.gy
• Ministry of Home Affairs — Immigration eServices launchmoha.gov.gy
• Ministry of Labour and Manpower Planning — homelabour.gov.gy
• Ministry of Labour — governing laws and formslabour.gov.gy
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — forms (including CSME-related)minfor.gov.gy

CARICOM Skills Certificate (CSME)

• CSME — free movement of skills, categories and application requirementsminfor.gov.gy
• CSME overview (Ministry of Foreign Affairs archive page)oldminfor.minfor.gov.gy

Employer obligations, local content and investment

General employers hiring non-nationals work through the Ministry of Labour's recruitment agency and job bank; the petroleum sector's Local Content Secretariat runs a separate statutory register; and GO-Invest is the official investment-promotion agency for anyone establishing a business or bringing capital into Guyana.

Employer obligations and local content

• Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency (CRMA) — Ministry of Labourlabour.gov.gy
• National Job Bank — Ministry of Labourlabour.gov.gy
• Local Content Register — Ministry of Natural Resources / Petroleum Management Programmelcregister.petroleum.gov.gy
• Local Content Register — registration requirementslcregister.petroleum.gov.gy
• Petroleum Management Programme — Go-Invest stakeholder rolepetroleum.gov.gy

Investment promotion and residency

• Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) — homeguyanainvest.gov.gy
• GO-Invest — about, services and investor facilitationguyanainvest.gov.gy

No general public register of 'approved sponsoring employers' exists outside the petroleum sector's Local Content Register, which covers company registration rather than individual work-permit sponsors. No standalone digital-nomad or remote-work visa is published by the Guyanese government.

Government job portals

Public-service vacancies are split across the Ministry of Public Service, the Public/Police Service Commission and the Ministry of Labour's Job Bank.

• Ministry of Public Service — vacanciesmps.gov.gy
• Public/Police Service Commission — careersppsc.gov.gy
• PPSC — public vacancy viewer/application portalapply.ppsc.gov.gy
• Department of Public Information — government vacancy advertsdpi.gov.gy
• Ministry of Home Affairs — vacanciesmoha.gov.gy

Settlement — tax, national insurance, driving, healthcare

Tax registration (TIN) is handled by the Guyana Revenue Authority; social contributions by the National Insurance Scheme.

• Guyana Revenue Authority — how to obtain a TINgra.gov.gy
• GRA — Taxpayer Identification Number (individuals)gra.gov.gy
• GRA — apply for a TIN (business)gra.gov.gy
• National Insurance Scheme — homenis.org.gy
• Ministry of Finance — National Insurance Scheme overviewfinance.gov.gy

Coming from one of these countries?

Your own government runs the register of licensed recruiters, the emigration clearance and the welfare fund that apply before you leave. Those pages are written from that side.