In an effort to allow certain minorities from Pakistan to continue to live and work in India, the Modi led government has put forth a proposal to simply the process of obtaining Indian citizenship for such individuals.

There is increased enforcement of a long standing regulation that tracks the stay of foreign nationals in India.

The days of long visa lines, bureaucracy and the otherwise uncomfortable visa process has taken on a new avatar. VFS Global's, UK Visas and Immigration partner have created the first ‘luxury' visa service.

A 120-day work permit category is for those foreign nationals who wish to work in Switzerland for 120 days or less in a 12-month period. This category is exempt of any quotas.

A bipartisan group of US senators on December 9, 2016, introduced a bill -- the BRIDGE Act which would grant 3 years of protection to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children.

This change announced by Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MoM), is applicable to new Employment Pass applicants.

The current Indian government is directing it efforts to making India more attractive to foreign investors and is eager to make India an attractive destination for manufacturing industries.

Based on last year's experience, adjudication on cases filed for regular processing could be delayed by several months.

The current Indian government is directing it efforts to making India more attractive to foreign investors and is eager to make India an attractive destination for manufacturing industries.

Some Schengen countries like Hungary and Denmark have also given the go-ahead to VFS to implement this service for their respective visa processes.

Want to learn or practise yoga in India? Apply for a tourist or E-Tourist visa. Or…. Try the Indian medicine systems? Apply for a E- Tourist visa.

The Indian government has extended the December 31, 2016 deadline for applying for conversion of Person of Indian origin (PIO) cards to Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) cards to June 31, 2017.

This legislation will be considerably more restrictive than any previous legislation introduced by Senators Durbin and Grassley in the last Congress which did not make it through.

An L-1 visa is essential if the employee of an international company (either a foreign or U.S. organization) is temporarily being transferred to a parent branch, affiliate, or subsidiary of the same company based in the United States.

The UK Home Office on recommendations from the Migration Advisory Committee will be implementing a number of changes to the Tier 2 skilled worker visa categories around September – October 2016.

The changes prevent a sponsor from delaying a start date for more than four weeks for all categories under Tier 2.

Earlier regulations had extended OPT for STEM students for an additional 17 months, allowing them to gain work experience for a total of 29 months.

The Payment of Bonus Act 1965 is applicable to every factory and other establishment in which 20 or more persons are employed on any day during an accounting year.

Government agencies led by the United Kingdom's (UK) Home Office are cracking down on illegal employment in high risk areas such as the construction industry, which has the highest percentage of illegal immigrants in the country.

In April 2016, the U.S. Senator of Arizona introduced a bill to the Congress that proposes to create a 10-year pilot Guest Worker Program in an effort to bridge the gap between the H-2A and H-2B seasonal workers and the high-skilled H-1B workers.