Mrs. Sophia Harris former Sectretary of the Cayman Islands Immigration Board speaks on Immigration:
1 - What are the general Travel requirements to travel to the Cayman Islands? i.e. from United States, Europe, Central or South America?
2 - Tell us about working in the Cayman Islands.
3 - What types of work permits are available?
4 - Tell us about investing in the Cayman Islands.
5 - Tell us about residency and the rights to live in the Cayman Islands.
6 - Tell us about Marriage to a Caymanian and its effects on tenure.
Sophia Harris LLB
Managing Partner
+1 345-949-0488
Admitted to bar, 1991, Cayman Islands as an Attorney-at-Law.
Education: University of Liverpool, England; Cayman Islands Law School (LL.B., 1991). Awards: Cayman Island Bar Association Award; Council of the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce Award, Scholarly Achievement.
Member: Chairman, Bank of Butterfield, Cayman Islands; Chairman, Cayman Immigration Appeals Tribunal; Caymanian Bar Association (Past Council Member); Cayman Island Law Society (Council Member); Past Assistant Governor to Rotary Clubs of the Cayman Islands; Past President - Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce; Past Chairwoman of CI Dept of Immigration Business Staffing Plan Board.
Language: English.
Practice Areas: Banks and Banking; Business Law; Company Law; Corporate Law; Mutual Funds; Commercial Law; Contracts; Listing Services; Collective Investment; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Partnership; Securities and Trusts.
Awards: Client Choice Awards – International 2013 – Individual of the year in Offshore Services; ‘Leading lawyer 100’ 2012 Guide – Sophia Harris in the category Banking & Finance, Lawyer Monthly.
Sophia-Ann Harris (nee Solomon), the founder of the firm Solomon Harris, is a graduate of the Cayman Islands Law School and has a degree from the University of Liverpool, England. She received an award from the Chamber of Commerce and the Cayman Islands Bar Association for scholarly achievements and was called to the Bar in 1991.
Sophia was trained and practised with Hunter & Hunter (now Appleby) before leaving to establish Solomon Harris in 1998. The award-winning firm, Solomon Harris, has been consistently ranked as one of the top independent firms in the Cayman Islands and has had an office in Zurich, Switzerland for over 4 years. Sophia’s specialties include banking, hedge funds and unit trusts, corporate and commercial law, trusts, immigration and all aspects of local licensing law. She is a well recognised corporate attorney and is listed in Lawyer Monthly’s ‘Leading Lawyer 100’ in the category of Banking and Finance for 2012.
Sophia served as the Chairwoman for the Immigration Department’s Business Staffing Plan Board for 2 years and sat on the Immigration Review Team for 2007 to 2008. She is currently Chairwoman of the Immigration Appeals Tribunal and served in that position since October, 2009. Sophia has also served on the Board of Governors for the University College of the Cayman Islands and acts as a director for other notable institutions including the Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited.
Sophia is a council member of the Cayman Islands Law Society and sat as a council member of the Caymanian Bar Association. She is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman, serving as the first female president in the Cayman Islands and is a past Assistant Governor for the Rotary Clubs within the Cayman Islands. She is a Past President of the Chamber of Commerce and during her term with the Chamber she has addressed the United Nations on a number of occasions including the United Nations General Assembly on constitutional matters for the Cayman Islands.
