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An application for registration should be submitted to the Board through the Registrar of the NPO at the Ministry of Health and Social Development: First Floor, West Atrium Central Administration Complex, 33 Admin Drive, Road Town, Tortola, VG1110, Virgin Islands (British).
A belongers application can be obtained from any of the three locations of the Civil Registry and Passport Office. They are located at the ground floor of the Central Administration Building, the 2nd Floor of the Burhym Building or the Vanterpool Building on Virgin Gorda. Forms can also be accessed online at www.bvi.gov.vg
Apostille services can be obtained at the following locations:
- Deputy Governor’s Office, Third Floor, West Wing, Central Administration Complex, Road Town, Tortola;
- Civil Registry and Passport Office, Burhym Building, Road Town, Tortola;
- High Court Registry, Old Administration Building, Road Town, Tortola; and
- International Affairs Secretariat, Haycraft Building, BVI Finance Centre, Pasea Estate, Tortola.
The Department of Human Resources' website is the official job site for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Additionally, vacancy notices may be advertised in newspapers. A listing of all vacancy notices is also available at the office of the Department of Human Resources on the west wing of the Central Administration Building.The Department of Human Resources' website is the official job site for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Additionally, vacancy notices may be advertised in newspapers. A listing of all vacancy notices is also available at the office of the Department of Human Resources on the west wing of the Central Administration Building.The Department of Human Resources' website is the official job site for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Additionally, vacancy notices may be advertised in newspapers. A listing of all vacancy notices is also available at the office of the Department of Human Resources on the west wing of the Central Administration Building.
There are several blue postal pillar boxes located within Road Town where mail can be posted after operational hours. These are:
- The intersection between Flemming and Main Street.
- The entrance to Purcell Estate.
- The P.O box location on Decastro Street.
- The P.O Box location on Nibbs Street.
- The entrance of the Old Government House (Old Post Office).
- The P.O. Box location adjacent to the East Wing of the Central Administration Complex.
We have a section dedicated for jobs within government and within the private sector. View them here
The main office is located on the fourth floor of the Old Government Administration Building (upstairs Old Post Office) on Main Street. The incinerator is located in Pockwood Pond.
3rd Floor West Atrium Central Administration Building, Road Town, Tortola Virgin Islands (British)
The Office of Gender Affairs is located at the Mill Mall on Wickhams Cay I.
The Hague Convention (Convention de La Haye du 5 Octobre 1961), applies to public documents, which have been executed in the Territory of one contracting State and which have to be produced in the Territory of another contracting State. These public documents include:
- documents emanating from an authority or an official connected with the courts or tribunals of the State, including those emanating from a public prosecutor, a clerk of a court or a process server (“huissier de justice”);
- administrative documents;
- notarial acts; and
- official certificates which are placed on documents signed by persons in their capacity, such as official certificates recording the registration of a document or the fact that it was in existence on a certain date and official and notarial authentications of signatures.
However, the present Convention shall not apply:
- to documents executed by diplomatic or consular agents; and
- to administrative documents dealing directly with commercial or customs operations
The lender, in this case National Bank of the VI makes the final decision on approving or denying a loan.
Persons are deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands based on the following categories:
- Born in the Virgin Islands of a mother or father who is:
- A British Overseas Territory Citizen (BOTC) by virtue of birth, registration, naturalisation or by descent from a father or mother who was born in the Virgin Islands
- Settled in the Virgin Islands
- Born in the Virgin Islands of a mother or father who is deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent.
- The child adopted in the Virgin Islands by a person who is deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent.
- Is born outside the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who is a BOTC by virtue of birth in the Virgin Islands or descent from a father or mother who was born in the Virgin Islands or who belongs to the Virgin Islands by virtue of birth in the Virgin Islands or descent from a father or mother who was born in the Virgin Islands.
- Is a British Overseas Territories Citizen by virtue of registration in the Virgin Islands.
- Is a person to whom a certificate has been granted under section 16 of the Immigration and Passport Act 1977 of the Virgin Islands.
- Is the spouse of a person who belongs to the Virgin Islands and has been granted a certificate under section 16 of the Act.
Call the Environmental Health Division at 468-5110 or email us at ehd@gov.vg if you have a mosquito infestation problem and feel that fogging is needed. Please note that after a premises has been inspected by the Vector Control Officer of the Division, if someone is present at the household then the Officer will give that person an Inspection Notice. If no one is present at the household then the Inspection Notice is left at the premises in a conspicuous place. The premises notice is produced in English or Spanish. Where containers of grave concern are found, a Notice of Violation (black writing on a yellow background) requiring immediate action is also placed on the container/item of concern.
To report a fault about a roadway, persons should contact the Public Works Department or email us at pwd@gov.vg. To request grading of roads, persons should submit a letter to the Director, Public Works Department.
All appeals should be submitted to the Permanent Secretary, Premier’s Office.
The Department must follow all Government policies on privacy and confidentiality. Only those whose job requires them to view your personal information will have access to your information. The staff at the Department are bound by strict confidentiality rules that do not allow unauthorized disclosure of your personal information.
A belonger is a person deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands.