According to Article 71 of Law No. 16/2021, the behaviour of persons who are fully aware that another person is at the status of illegal immigration or illegal stay and still allows that person to be taken in or stay overnight at their home, or provide a place, construction, vehicle, vessel or real property in any form, or let that person dominate or occupy a part, room or annex of the real property so that the person is taken in or stays overnight constitutes a criminal offence of sheltering illegal immigrant. Such persons will be penalized by imprisonment for a maximum of two years. Therefore, persons who provide accommodation to a third person have the obligation to find out the status of that person in Macao in advance so as not to violate the law. |
