The UK Home office announced changes affecting Tier 2 visas and other UK Visas from 6 April 2015. While most of the changes are not significant, a new health care surcharge will mean much higher costs for Tier 2 visa applicants and for many other migrants.  Home Office fees increased across the board from 5… Read More »

LONDON: Patients may have to produce a passport to prove their residence status when they require hospital care in England, under new government guidelines aimed at clamping down on health tourism, which costs the economy 2 billion pound a year. The Department of Health rules require all patients to answer questions about their residence status… Read More »

After many Russian universities started offering English medium based courses since 2000, the number of Indian students heading to Russia for higher education has increased almost ten-fold, reports DNA. While only 120 to 130 Indian students went abroad to Russia for under-graduate and post-graduate studies in 2001-02, this number rose to 670 in 2010 and shot to 1,100 in… Read More »

Pacts signed with Belgium, France and Germany. BusinessLine, New Delhi, Jan. 13 There could be reasons to smile for Indian workers posted abroad and Indian companies having employees in foreign countries. These workers are likely to be exempted from paying a hefty part of their salaries to the Government of that country on account of… Read More »