Month: July 2017

July 13, 2017

Meet with us at booth #840 at this year's GBTA Convention! With a theme of Ready. Safe. Travel., the convention will take discussions and solutions to the next level with the leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and change makers. CIBT UK Managing Director, Ray Rackham, will be speaking at the session "Business Visitors After Brexit: Compliant Business Travel to the UK", 18 November, 11:15am – 12:00pm ET.

July 11, 2017

The Forum for Expatriate Management APAC Global Mobility Summit brings together global mobility professionals, industry experts and HR specialists. Delegates will benefit from interactive workshop sessions, corporate-only roundtable sessions, panel discussions and case studies, and gain expert insight from senior global mobility leaders and previous winners of the Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards at the Mobility Masterclasses. Newland Chase is exhibiting!

July 11, 2017

With a designated-skills visa designed to bring in some 500,000 new workers by 2025, Japan's workforce is radically and rapidly transforming. At the Tokyo Summit 2019, and with this focus on transformation in mind, Worldwide ERC® offers the opportunity to explore the contributions that mobility teams can make as businesses attract new global talent, build skills and create innovative policies to foster growth.

July 10, 2017

In this week’s edition, we advise that changes to the Australian employer sponsored temporary and permanent visa programmes came into effect on 1st July 2017, and a new work permit waiver has been introduced to promote international trade to the Netherlands. We also bring you the latest immigration news from France, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

July 7, 2017

France has begun publicising a simplified, fast-track Tech Visa process for startup founders, employees and investors. The route enables qualifying tech talent to obtain a “Passeport Talent” residence permit for four years (renewable) for themselves and their immediate family, without requiring a separate work permit. The “Passeport Talent” scheme was launched in 2016 for ten categories of […]

July 7, 2017

Effective 1st July 2017, a regulation aimed at promoting international trade contacts entered into force. Under this regulation, Dutch companies can temporarily employ foreign national workers without a work permit, to perform activities as part of a project related to the delivery of goods and services. What projects qualify? To qualify, the overall goal of […]

July 5, 2017

Effective 1st July 2017, as expected, a monthly levy of SAR 100 (approximately USD 27) must be paid for each foreign national dependent resident in Saudi Arabia. In addition, from January 2018, the monthly levy on foreign national employees in companies where the number of foreign national employees exceeds the number of Saudi employees will double to […]

July 4, 2017

Effective immediately, the Kuwaiti authorities have ceased issuing new residence permits (Iqamas) for sponsored dependent family members, other than spouses and children. Current dependent residence permit holders are allowed in some cases to renew their residence. New Residence Renewal Rules Under the new rules, any dependent family member wishing to renew their dependent residence permit in […]

July 4, 2017

Several previously announced changes to Employer Sponsored temporary and permanent visa programmes came into effect on 1st July 2017. The changes (which we originally covered here and here) and a brief explanation of the impacts are provided below. Temporary Work (Skilled) Subclass 457 Visas There have been several changes to 457 visas including: Training Benchmarks: more restrictions on training […]

July 4, 2017

In this week’s edition, we advise that the UK’s Prime Minister has set out a proposal for EU citizens post-Brexit, and the US Supreme Court has partially lifted the injunction on President Trump’s March Executive Order on immigration. We also bring you the latest immigration news from Denmark, Portugal and Malaysia.