With the introduction of the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2017 in the Parliament, there is an increase in the ceiling limit of gratuity for employees in private and public sector, at par with the central government employees. Gratuity is a social security benefit received by an employee from an employer at end of employment. […]

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Recently, the Federal Court of Australia adjudicated upon a very important question in light of the worldwide increase in the number of immigrants, and the growing number of cross-cultural marriages: is a Partner Visa applicant’s lack of interest in the religious affairs of the sponsoring partner a ground for denial of Partner Visa? The question […]

On November 21, 2017, an official of the Home Ministry revealed that India and Russia have signed a pact for permitting visa-free arrival of flight crew of chartered and scheduled flights between the two countries. As per the estimates of the Home Ministry, approximately 1,200 scheduled flights operate between India and Russia annually.  Moreover, it […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced that it will start issuing Tourist Visas to foreign nationals from 2018. As stated by the Head of Saudi Commission for Tourism and Natural Heritage, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the aim of the measure is to attract travelers to the nation. The decision has been made […]

According to recent data released by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. government conferred U.S. citizenship to 7.53 lakh individuals during the fiscal year 2016 (October 1,2015 to September 30,2016) out of which 6% was conferred on the Indians. Among U.S. citizenship granted during the fiscal year 2016, Mexicans top the list, followed […]

1. What is the minimum amount of capital to be invested? For investment in “Targeted Employment Areas” (TEA) the minimum amount of capital to be invested is $ 500,000 (approx. INR 3.4 cr) and in areas other than TEAs the minimum amount of capital to be invested is $1,000,000 (approx. INR 6.4 cr). 2. What is a Targeted Employment Area? […]

The United States has withdrawn from participating in the United Nations (UN) global treaty on Migration, which will be adopted in 2018 to pledge to protect and preserve rights of migrants and refugees. President Donald Trump’s administration said the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants agreement was “inconsistent” with its policies. The U.S. Mission […]

The UK government has decided to make the immigration rules much liberal, after considering the fall in the percentage of international students and researchers enrolling in the UK universities. In the past years, UK has noticed a fall in the student’s visa applications because of its unwelcoming visa rules. Now with the reformation in the […]

A U.S. district court judge recently ruled that the Trump administration could no longer delay the Obama administration era immigration rule designed to enable foreign entrepreneurs to temporarily stay in the U.S. under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER) to grow their startups. This rule is more commonly referred to as the ‘startup visa’ route. The […]