Given the importance of accompanying family members to international mobility, Permits Foundation has recommended amendments to ensure that family members can accompany the intra-corporate employee from the start of the assignment and be permitted to work. Read our respose to EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström Read our Press Release

The UK Government has asked the Migration Advisory Committee and the UK Border Agency to consult on the introduction of an annual cap on non-EU economic migration. Permits Foundation expressed the view that a cap on highly skilled business migration will harm the UK’s economy and its competitiveness as an international business hub. The foundation […]

The introduction of caps on employment of highly skilled foreign workers and intra-company transfers would stifle the UK’s economic recovery and damage its competitive position longer term. That’s the message Permits Foundation has given to the Migration Advisory Committee and the UK Border Agency in consultations drawing to a close this month. “There’s a serious […]

Proposals by the European Commission for a directive on the entry and residence of Intra Corporate Transferees fail to address the needs of working spouses and partners. The Commission’s initiative is intended to facilitate common work permit procedures for transferring managers, specialists and graduate trainees to Europe by international companies. However, although the proposals respect […]

Permits Foundation has proposed that the spouses of intra-company transferees be permitted to take employment or self employment during the course of an assignment in India, as is the case in many other countries. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) supports the foundation’s proposals. For further information please contact Kathleen van der Wilk-Carlton: Contact@Permitsfoundation.com Read […]