Barbados facing backlog of 15,000 immigrant applications

(Barbados Nation) A backlog of about 15 000 unprocessed immigrant applications has returned to haunt Government and the country’s health care system, says Minister of Health Donville Inniss.

He told the SUNDAY SUN on Saturday his administration had inherited a situation where thousands of applications for varying kinds of immigrant status had not been processed.

He added the Immigration Department had been unable to process applications for both citizenship and permanent residence in a