Transfer of island registration to Fonadhoo

A person registered on another island who has lived in L. Fonadhoo without a break for the past 5 years can ask to be registered as a Fonadhoo islander at a Fonadhoo house. If the person is 16 or over, they apply themself. For a child under 16, the child's father or guardian applies.

The 5 years are shown in one of two ways:

• a letter, signed and stamped by the head of the office, shop or company, showing the person has worked and lived in L. Fonadhoo without a break for the past 5 years; or
• two witnesses who know the person has lived in Fonadhoo for the past 5 years. Witnesses are not needed if a letter from the person's workplace is given.

Years spent in school up to the end of grade 10 are not counted. The owner of the Fonadhoo house must have no objection to the registration; if the owner has died and the inheritance is not yet settled, a child of the owner asks for it instead. Incomplete applications and applications with false information will be cancelled.

• The islanders' register of the Fonadhoo house the person will be registered in (the original).
• A copy of the house owner's ID card (and, if witnesses are used, copies of the witnesses' ID cards).
• Copies of the ID cards of the person to be registered and of their mother and father or guardian.
• A copy of the document establishing the guardianship, if the person is under the applicant's guardianship.
• A copy of the ID card of the owner of the house where the person lives in Fonadhoo.
• The letter from the person's workplace, if it is used instead of witnesses.
• If someone other than the house owner brings the register: the owner's letter and a copy of the ID card of the owner who signs it. The person bringing it must also bring their original ID card.

The Council will confirm the fee.

• Bring the original islanders' register of the Fonadhoo house to the Council office.
• The paper form is signed, with a thumbprint, by the applicant, the house owner (or the owner's child), the owner of the house where the person lives and each witness. The Council will tell you if any of them must come to the office to sign their statement.
• The office receives forms from 08:30 to 13:15 on every day that is not a government holiday. Enquiries: 6800082.