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August 2010

Changes in Indian Visa Regulations for expats

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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57 Changes in Indian Visa Regulations for expats

India has changed the rules concerning work visas for
foreigners to remove the ceiling on the number of foreigners a company can hire
as well as the minimum stipulated salary.

Though the new rules are designed to favour skilled workers
and have an ‘Indians first’ bias, they should please expats who are willing to
work here but were hindered by the cap on the number of foreigners who could
have been hired, as well as the minimum salary requirement. Indian companies had
to limit their foreign recruitments to 1% of their total workforce and pay them
annual salaries of $ 25,000.

The rules are sure to be welcomed by the non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) in India who have been allowed to hire, just like a private
concern, ‘skilled’ foreigners.

In the old regime, NGOs were not allowed to hire foreigners
forcing those who were still willing to work for such organisations to come to
India on tourist visa to work as volunteers for a limited period.

(Source : The Times of India, dated 8-7-2010)

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