NDTV.com: EU set to woo Indian professionals with "blue Visa" - by Sam Daniel
EU set to woo Indian professionals with "blue Visa" - by Sam Daniel
The European Union is finally opening up its frontiers for professionals from countries like India. A blue card visa, that applies to all the 27 member countries is being planned by the Union. The target is to lure top IT and medical professionals and students. As per EU the idea is to let them work freely all across the European Union and to grant them a generous legal status for family reunification as well. Facing an acute shortage of high-end talent, this is the EU's attempt to check brain drain to countries like the US, Canada and Australia. ''There is a great need in certain sections like software, telecommunication, computer industry from Asia and especially from India and that's why the blue card is coming,'' said Shada Islam, European Policy Centre.
But the road to the blue card may not be so smooth. Even within the Union, immigration is still the prerogative of individual member countries.
Labels: Blue Card, EU, Immigration
