Permits Foundation campaign globally to improve work permit regulations to make it easier for partners of expatriate staff to gain employment during an international assignment. Read our updated brochure and find out more about our work, what we achieve for our sponsors and how to get on board. More than 40 major international companies and organisations worldwide support Permits Foundation […]

A European Commission proposal to repeal the Blue Card Directive on highly skilled workers is being amended in the European Parliament. On 15 June 2017, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee voted to back changes to the proposed new Directive. The European Parliament’s revision of the Report on the Conditions of entry and residence of […]

In November 2016, the EU Intra Corporate Transfer (ICT) Directive was implemented in the Netherlands. Permits Foundation had previously successfully advocated to secure the working rights of partners when the ICT Directive was negotiated at EU-level. A number of our sponsor companies raised concerns relating to the Dutch implementation of certain aspects of the Directive. […]

Peru has issued a new migration decree in March that regulates the entry, exit, stay and residence of foreigners. The decree introduces and re-orders a wide range of visas in Temporary and Residence categories and overall makes the regulations more business-friendly. Significantly, it includes work authorization for family members of new Residence visa holders, as […]

Permits Foundation has written again to the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mr Kiren Rijiju, to follow up on our proposal for a new intra-corporate transfer visa that would also allow accompanying spouses to work during an assignment to India. At a previous meeting in June 2016, together with a delegation of international companies, […]