Employment visa or Work Visa allow the Indian workers to work in the Other Countries in the world for a temporary period of time or long term up to Permanent Residency for selected countries.
This usually involves sponsorship for employment visa status by Foreign employers with permanent Job Offer with fixed salary package to relocate the worker for particular time period which includes the Work contract of minimum 2 years and maximum depends upon country.
Employment visas are sometimes called work visas or work permits.
The job seeker visa is for selective countries, which allows you to stay in the country from 1 month to maximum six months (depends on the country) and look for a job and explore the living environment of the country. You also need to book an accommodation to stay for temporary period before leaving India.
If at the end of the visa period you have found a place of employment, you will be given the Employment or work visa or work permit and you will be allowed to work and live there.
Please note that having a job seeker visa does not allow you to start working immediately.
It only means that you can visit the country and look for a job during your stay. If you have not found any suitable Job according to your requirements then you have to leave the country and come back to India.
If you are not passed 10th class then your category will be ECR - Emigration Check Required OR You can find "Emigration Check Required" written on the last page of your passport if you are in this category.
So whenever you are going to the outside of India on Employment Visa you must have to get clearance from the immigration office i.e POE (CeeVi will help you to clear the Emigration).
The ECNR stands for Emigration Check Not Required passport. If you are passed 10th class or more, then the category will be ECNR.
You do not need the Emigration Check Required for following people:
- Income taxpayers
- Official and Diplomatic passport holders
- People who have passed 10th class
- Professional degree holders
- Gazetted officers
- Children below the 18 years with one or both parents
- People who are above 50 year age.
- People holding degree or diploma in polytechnic
- People who hold PR visa for the US, UK, and Australia.
If you dont fall under the above mentioned categories then you must have required emigration check.
The List of ECR countries is mentioned below:
USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe Countries, Japan, China and all other countries in the world other than (Except) (Not Including the following)}:
Brunei, Yemen, Indonesia, Saudi Arab, Iraq, Thailand, Jordan, UAE, Lebanon, Syria, Malaysia, Sudan, Libya, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar.
A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, knowledge, and (usually acquired) ability in their work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or A skilled worker may have learned their skills on the job.
Examples of skilled labor include engineers, software development, paramedics, police officers, soldiers, physicians, crane operators, truck drivers, machinist, drafters, plumbers, craftsmen, cooks and accountants. These workers can be either blue-collar or white-collar workers, with varied levels of training or education.
A semiskilled worker is one who does work generally of defined routine nature wherein the major requirement is not so much of the judgment, skill and but for proper discharge of duties assigned to him or relatively narrow job and where important decisions made by others. His work is thus limited to the performance of routine operations of limited scope.
An unskilled worker is one who does operations that involve the performance of simple duties, which require the experience of little of no independent judgment or previous experience although familiarity with the occupational environment is necessary. His work may thus require in addition to physical exertion familiarity with variety of articles or goods.