About:
- The non-ECR category of passengers include Indians paying income tax and those with educational qualification above matriculation.
- As of now only ECR category passport holders were required to get emigration clearance from the office of the Protector of Emigrants to seek employment abroad.
Recent Rules:
- Objective: The rule is aimed at the welfare of Indians going abroad. The objective is to protect workers with higher educational qualification from not getting into blue collar jobs.
- Timeline: The rule will take effect on January 1, 2019.
- Procedure/Details:
- All those seeking employment will have to register online via the website emigrate.gov.in. Previously only ECR stamped passport holders had to go through the mandatory e-migrate registration since 2015.
- Those failing to register at least 24 hours prior to actual departure will be off-loaded at the airports.
- For all other visa categories, there is no change in existing procedures.
- Countries covered:
- The Rule applies to jobs in 18 countries, including the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations, which have the largest number of expats.
- The other countries where registration is required are Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Thailand and Yemen.
Emigrants and Employment: Statistics by Ministry of External Affairs for 2017
- UAE is the leading employment-destination country for Indians with 1.5 lakh Indians taking up job there. This was followed by Saudi Arabia (78,611); Kuwait (56,380); Oman (43,332) and Qatar (24,759).
- The job roles were that of mason (52,833); labour (49,490); carpenter (41,588); helper (23,6700; and electrician (17,703).
- Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the top labour-sending State with 88,450 Indian emigrants registering with the e-migrate system. This was followed by Bihar (69,426); Tamil Nadu (38,341); West Bengal (36,599) and Rajasthan (32,184).
