Employment Travel

  1. An Employment Travel is provided to travel and work in India. It is granted to those foreigners who are highly qualified and skilled. It is also granted to a paid intern of an overseas company who is traveling to India for volunteer work with NGOs.

    Eligibility conditions

    To apply for this travel, the foreign citizen must be educated and skilled in any profession such as;

    • i.The citizen coming to India should have the contract with an Indian company whom the applicant will work on a fixed remuneration (it should not be in the form of a monthly salary).
    • ii.The foreign artist who is engaged with India’s different fraternity and conducts regular performances for a while with employment contract provided him or her by club, organization, and Hotels.
    • iii.The overseas nationals who are visiting India to attend or take up employment as coaches in a national and state level or reputed sports clubs can avail employment travel.
    • iv.Self-employed foreign citizens coming to India for providing legal accounting, medical, engineering, or such other highly professional and skilled services in their capacity as an independent coach or consultant services are permitted with employment visa under the law.
    • v.The foreign sportsmen who are provided a contract for a specific duration by the Indian organization or club can enter India to play the games.
    • vi.The foreign language interpreters, translators, or teachers can also apply for employment visa if they are given a contract by the Indian organization to teach students.
    • vii.The employment visa is also provided to professional cooks and chefs.
    • viii.Foreign engineers or technicians visiting India for commissioning of equipment/ machines, installation, or tools in terms of the contract by Indian company can supply once the applicant gets employment travel.
    • ix. A citizen of a foreign country who provides technical support or services to an Indian company and gets fees/ royalty or can get an employment travel.
    • x.The senior management personnel or any specialists employed by the film fraternity who is ready to relocate in India to work on a special project or management assignment can avail of this travel.
    • xi.Any foreign nationals who are visiting India to repair machinery and maintenance on contract can avail employment visa for a short visit.
    • xii.If a foreign nation coming to India to provide training for the personnel of the Indian company is provided with the same.
    • xiii.And, those traveling to India for non-government organization volunteer work can apply for an India Employment visa as well.

    Condition of granting employment travel

    • i.The applicant should be well-qualified or highly skilled in a profession and can be engaged or appointed by a company/industry or any organization undertaking in India on a contract basis as technical expert, senior-level employ, senior executive, or in a managerial position is granted with employment travel.
    • ii.The employment visa holder must not be Indian.
    • iii.The employment visa also cannot grant for clerical or secretarial jobs and routine and ordinary works.
    • iv.The employee must visit India if he or she serves for any India registered company/ organization, film company engaged for some project in India.
    • v.If an employee’s salary is above INR 16.25 lakhs per annum can grant this travel. However, this condition does not apply if:
      a) For ethnic cooks
      b) Language teacher (other than English language teacher) or translator
      c) Staff who works for a high commission in India or embassy
    • vi.The foreign citizen who wants to apply for an employment visa must comply with all legal requirements such as tax, liabilities, and payment.
    • vii.The foreign citizen must provide all the legal documents when he is going to apply for an employment travel.
    • viii.The name of the sponsoring organization shall offer a clear stipulated visa sticker.
    • ix.The Indian organization that sponsors an employment visa does not need to be the legal employer of that person.
    • x.A foreign organization that does not have its own office/ subsidiary/joint venture or branch office in India cannot sponsor an employment visa to its employees. However, if the Indian company offers a contract to a foreign company that doesn’t have any property or office in India, such foreign companies can sponsor the employee for an employment travel.
    • xi.The Indian organization, engaging with foreign companies, wishes to work together, will be responsible for the conduct, if something happens wrong, or stay in India during the visit. However, the company will also be responsible for the departure of that foreign company.

    Duration and validity

    • i.The validity of an Indian Employment Travel is provided for the duration while you are in India for work purpose, however, the stay must not exceed one year.
    • ii.If you are a foreign technician applying for Indian employment travel, then you are allowed to stay for 5 years with multiple entries in India during your employment. It is a bilateral agreement between the Indian and the foreign government.
    • iii.If you are highly skilled foreign personnel, employed in the IT Software Company or sectors, the employment visa is provided to you for 3 years with multiple entries in India.
    • iv.Others are granted an Employment Travel with maximum validity up to 2 years until the assignment or work is not done. However, this visa is also come up with multiple entries.

    Note: the validity of an Employment Travel commences from the date of issuance, and NOT from your date of arrival into India.

    Travel extension

    If you want to extend your employment visa validity, then the authority offers you up to 5 years from the date of issue for an annual basis, is subject to good production with necessary documents in support of continued employment, filing income tax returns, and no adverse security inputs. The foreigner should obtain this facility from FRRO or MHA in the concerned state in India.
    Grant of Employment Travel to Japanese Technicians

    a. CategoryDuration of Employment Travel
    i.Japanese professional technicians or senior experts who are visiting to India in pursuance of bilateral arrangements confirmed between the government of India and the government of Japan or in pursuance of arrangements between non-governmental businesses (private NGOs) which have been authorized by the government of India.They are provided the Employment Travel for the duration of 5 years with multiple entries in India.
    ii.Japanese candidates who are not blanketed under (i) above, however, they are highly skilled and certified professionals hired by an Indian enterprise, agency or industry within the IT software and IT enabled sectors in India.The qualified employees are offered the Employment Travel with 3 years with multiple entry facility.
    iii.Japanese applicants who are fairly skilled and qualified professional visiting to India for employment through a enterprise, organization or industry in India or may be engaged in an undertaking in India on agreement no longer protected in (i) and (ii) above.The qualified employees are offered the Employment Travel with 3 years with multiple entry facility.

    (b) The extension of staying in India for Japanese can be granted 2 more years beyond the existing 3 years to those applicants who have entered India with employment travel as mentioned above in (ii), according to the techniques decided with the aid of the Government of India (GOI). However, as per the (iii) above, are granted 2 extra years on a year to year basis beyond the existing 3 years after checking necessary documents.

    (c)The Employment Travel offers you multiple entries to the applicant, however, it is also provided to the applicant’s family member (spouse and kids who are dependent on the candidate, who performing an important part in the household) of the citizens of Japan, mentioned in (a) above, Japanese nationals holding Employment Travel.

    (d) The Employment Travel with multiple entries is granted to applicants’ family members so that they can visit India to meet their loved ones. For that, Japanese nationals who are required to sign up with the FRRO/ FRO concerned need no longer be present in the FRRO/ FRO for initial registration or the next extension of visa/ Residential permit and this could be finished through a certified representative.

    The Conversion of an Employment Travel

    Employment Travel is the only visa that is non-convertible to any other type of visa expert in emergency cases. However, if someone needs to convert this visa into another type of travel, then he should read the policy guidelines.

    Conversion of ‘E-3X’ travel to ‘E’ travel (Entry or Employment)

    The conversion of ‘E-3X’ or Entry Travel of any applicants’ spouse on intra-company transfer into the Employment Travel can be permitted in the country where the applicant works, which is subject to the candidates fulfilling of all the necessary documents and conditions with the approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

    Change of Employer

    If the employer is getting changed, then he or she shall not be permitted to do that, except in cases of change of employment between a registered company, joint ventures & consortiums, and its subsidiaries. The change of employment would be granted at a senior level such as senior executive, managerial, and highly skilled position; technical expert. However, it needs the permission of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Registration for Business Travel

All the business visa holders of Chinese nationals are requested to register themselves with the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO)/ Foreigners Registration Officer (FRO) concerned in case your stay in India is solely on Business purpose.

Other conditions on Business Travel

Business Travel provided to you by the authority of immigration or the Government of India shall be non-convertible to any other visa form except in rare cases. However, in case you need to know regarding the conversion of Business Travel to other categories, then you are requested to see the general policy guidelines of an Indian visa on this website.

Grant of extension to foreigners holding a business visa

In case the authority of immigration grant a business visa for a period less than five years, the applicant can apply for the extension up to five years if his or her company activities or sales earn up to 1 crore per annum can grant 2 years business visa facility with multiple entries. This condition is applied if the foreign nationals fulfill all the eligibility criteria mentioned above.

However, in other categories, the visa extension shall be the subject of submitting documents, proofs, or business and services. In this situation, a business visa extension may be granted by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO)/ Foreigners Registration Officer (FRO) concerned on a year to year basis. And, the period of extension shall not be more than five years from the date of visa issuance.

Grant of Business Card to Businessmen to SAARC countries

The Government of India or the immigration department of India provide Business Card to businessmen who are from SAARC countries, the card comes with multiple entries for a period of three years and more. The validity of the Indian Business Card will be co-terminus with the validity of the Indian Business Travel.

The India Business Card will help in facilitation at the immigration counters for expeditious immigration clearance. The businessman will issue an India Business Card, but he or she needs to carry the passport containing the Business Travel sticker for entry in to India. On the issue of a fresh Business Travel, a fresh India Business Card will be issued. While submitting the application for a fresh Business Travel, the individual will have to surrender the India Business Card which is already issued to the SAARC businessmen.

Note: Duration of Travel or the number of entries in India is purely the discretion of the Indian Embassy, or Consulate has no role in order to make any approach or process. The applicant has to observe and realize that Travel will not be a subject of right, and, hence the Embassy / Consulates might deny the visa if no longer observed the eligibility / or does no longer have adequate supporting documentation. If the process is not matching according to the demand from the authority will not grant a Business visa if you request more days or time in India. So, provide your details and information before you submit your application, and must pay your application process amount. There will be no clarifications on this regard, and the resolution or decision of the Embassy / Consulate will probably be final.

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