Webinars & Resources

March, 2024

As anticipation builds for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, athletes, support staff, and spectators from around the globe are actively planning their journeys to France. Amid the excitement, however, it remains crucial for all those traveling to the Games to navigate the complex landscape of visa and immigration requirements. This guide will clarify the visa and immigration requirements for these groups, ensuring their focus can remain on the build-up to the Games.

March, 2024

The future of work is evolving at a pace not seen since the industrial revolution moved people from the fields into factories. This paper aims not to provide definitive answers but to stimulate a conversation around the transformation of global workforce management.

February 2024

Asia is home to a number of the world's key business hubs. But traveling among the nations of Asia for business can require dealing with a number of different visa and entry requirements. This white paper examines the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card, a single document available to passport holders of 21 countries, allowing business travelers to have multiple entry access to participating nations without the need for business visas or other business-related entry documents.

February 2024

The ranks of Digital Nomads - individuals who work remotely from locations around the world - exploded during the COVID pandemic. While providing opportunities for individuals to experience new cultures and locations, it also poses challenges, from tax implications to regulatory compliance, for workers and employers alike. In this white paper, we discuss the impacts digital nomads have had on global mobility and strategies for addressing these risks.

December 2023

Tax issues and global mobility go hand in hand, impacting both employees and employers. That said, tax issues related to the operation of affiliated employer entities are rarely understood in the world of Global Mobility and Human Resources. In this white paper, author Germán Vega Barrientos, Director, Global Tax Services at Newland Chase examines how companies operating in Mexico must consider several corporate tax risks in the context of employee mobility.

October 2023

Significant delays are being experienced in visa and permit processing times in Germany which are causing disruption to planned employee start dates in country. Germany is experiencing an unprecedented increase in visa applications. In the paper we examine:

• Why is the German immigration system under pressure?
• Most recent developments in the German immigration system
• Helping to manage your assignees’ expectations
• Promising news from the German immigration authorities

October 2023

The Apostille Convention—also known as the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents—is an international agreement simplifying how public documents are authenticated for the purposes of using it in a foreign country. In this white paper, learn about the Apostille process and the difference between Apostille, notarization and legalization.

August 2023

Sponsors are required to keep copies of certain documents and information for all of the students it has decided to sponsor on the United Kingdom's Tier 4, Child Student or Student visa routes. This guide helps sponsors to fully understand the many documentation requirements.

June 2023

This is the fourth instalment in a four-paper series by Ray Rackham, Thought Leadership, Advocacy and Public Policy at CIBT Newland Chase that reviews over 130 news items, government announcements, and public policy changes and thematically links them to present an immigration and visa global state of play.

June 2023

This is the third instalment in a four-paper series by Rackham, Ray Thought Leadership, Advocacy and Public Policy at CIBT Newland Chase that reviews over 130 news items, government announcements, and public policy changes and thematically links them to present an immigration and visa global state of play.