Permits Foundation has responded to South Africa’s Green Paper on International Migration, which was published by the Minister of Home Affairs, MKN Gigaba, in June 2016. In general, we welcome the Green Paper, which acknowledges the advantages of migration to development in South Africa. In particular, we applaud its recognition of the need for a new fast-track, […]

Michiel van Campen has joined Permits Foundation as executive director this month. He is succeeding Katy van der Wilk-Carlton who has expressed a wish to work less towards her retirement and who will continue as a member of the board. Michiel started his career at the Dutch Immigration Service, after which he joined the Dutch […]

Israeli Cabinet Ministers recently approved a new a program that will allow spouses of Foreign Expert Visa holders (B1) to work in Israel. The aim is to encourage more foreign talent to work in Israel’s high tech industries and local branches of multinational organisations. While the regulations have still to be published officially, the word […]

Brazil is joining the growing number of countries that allow family members of foreign workers to work during an assignment. In a decree regulating the legal status of foreigners, issued on 10 May 2016, a number of changes have been announced that will help remove some of the bureaucracy inherent in regulations dating back to […]

Permits Foundation has written again to the Minister of State for Home Affairs and the Minister of State for External Affairs to discuss our proposal that spouses of intra-corporate transferees be allowed to work. Meetings last year with both ministers indicated broad support for a visa policy change. However, despite the consensus that this would be […]