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JE1.2.1ÌýÌýÌýÌý Residency and employment

Jersey is constitutionally entitled to restrict immigration and maintains its own immigration and border controls. However, Jersey is part of the Common Travel Area (being the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Crown Dependencies) and, for the time that the United Kingdom was a member of the European Union, it was required to apply the same rules to nationals of the European Union as it does to nationals of the United Kingdom.

Therefore, Jersey could not control immigration against British, certain Commonwealth, Swiss and European Union nationals and consequently could not require these nationals to have a visa to live in Jersey without breaching international law. Consequently, Jersey controlled, and since Brexit continues to control, immigration by a mixture of restrictions on employment and those without residential status purchasing or renting property in the Island pursuant to the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012.

Jersey is constitutionally entitled to restrict immigration and maintains its own immigration and border controls. Jersey controls general immigration by a mixture of restrictions on employment and those without residential