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The United States has withdrawn from participating in the United Nations (UN) global treaty on Migration, which will be adopted in 2018 to pledge to protect and preserve rights of migrants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 […]

The United States (U.S.) Supreme Court in Washington allowed the travel ban by the Trump administration to go into effect even as legal challenges against it continue. The court’s orders mean that the administration can fully enforce its new restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six predominantly Muslim countries. The ban applies to travelers […]

The Central Government (CG) has directed to link Aadhaar Card with numerous services and documents to continue using them. The following are the list of documents that need to be linked to Aadhar Card:   PAN Card – The deadline to link Aadhar with PAN card was December 31, 2017. However, the deadline has been extended to […]

Sushma Swaraj, the External Affairs Minister of India announced to grant visa to the parents of a 12-year-old boy who is believed to be from Pakistan and is abandoned in Faridkot Observation Home, Punjab after being detained by the Border Security Force (BSF) in May 2017.  Mehr Tarar, a Pakistani journalist drew Swaraj’s attention to […]