"Our government has accorded the highest priority to promoting the interests of Indian emigrants for the last six years," Jaishankar said. ...

According to the Emigration Act, 1983, ECR categories of Indian-passport holders need to obtain Emigration Clearance from the office of POE...

The data was placed before Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar while replying to a question on complaints repor...

The system makes it mandatory for the employer to fill in a registration application which will then be vetted by the Indian mission.

CBI today arrested the Protector of Emigrants (PoE), Kochi, a key accused in the nursing recruitment scam, involving crores of rupees.

India has made it mandatory for employers of Indian workers and nurses in the UAE to register themselves online on a government website bef...

An FIR was registered last week against Adolfus and recruiting agency Al Zarafa Travels, the second accused in the case.

Besides Saudi Arabia, the other countries from where bodies are to be brought back to India include Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon and M...

The decision is part of the e-migrate system launched by the Ministry last year aimed at easing the process of granting emigration clearanc...

The Minister said 120 Indians stranded in conflict areas out of estimated 210 citizens have been evacuated so far including 46 nurses in Ti...

The number of women workers from South India going abroad, especially to countries in the Persian Gulf for jobs has been steadily increasin...

The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs plans to expand the online framework to all nine PoEs across the country.

Getting clearances to go abroad for jobs would soon be made easy with govt set to introduce a seamless service linking various stakeholders...

The statement comes in the backdrop of political turmoil in West Asia & fears that Indians working in there might come under attack.

Under-graduates going for jobs abroad may not require the emigration checks if a proposal of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs goes t...

The Indian government will rope in recruiting agents to help identify trades and skill gaps in which potential emigrant workers can be impa...

In wake of the recent instance of BJP MP Babubhai Katara attempting to smuggle a woman out of the country posing his wife, Government is pl...