Fifty representatives of international employers, government ministries and diplomatic missions met recently at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to discuss access to employment of spouses and partners during an expatriate assignment. Delegates from several ‘best practice’ countries confirmed that allowing spouses and partners to work was an integral part of their policy […]

The European Commission’s final report on the Implementation of its Action Plan for Skills and Mobility recognised the difficulty of finding employment for partners or spouses of mobile workers as a major obstacle to occupational and geographic mobility in Europe. Read more in COM(2007) 24 final, 25.1.2007, Section 4 Challenges Ahead

The European Commission’s Directorate for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has commissioned a study into the mobility of dual-career couples in Europe. The study is aimed specifically at partners of people who have moved for a job, considered moving or declined a job in another country in Europe during the last 10 years. The […]

The new regulation permitting accompanying spouses of professional staff and capital investors to work without prior approval of the Immigration Department was implemented on 15 May 2006. Spouses who were living in Hong Kong prior to 15 May 2006 may apply to the Immigration Department for removal of the previous restriction. This change applies to […]

The European Commission has adopted a Policy “Plan on Legal Migration”, giving an overview of initiatives that the Commission intends to take in the period 2006-2009. It addresses four areas for the development of the EU common legal migration policy: a legislative section to regulate the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in […]