Travel permit or passport is the following trendy expression for the globetrotters after visa, which fills a fundamental need of each individual looking for a worldwide voyage. In this manner, you can state that both travel permit and visa are two key aspects for any worldwide outing. When we discuss passport, we for the most part share our regular perspectives like document prerequisites for passport, issuance formalities, renewal of passport, travel permit charges, police check and so forth. In any case, a large portion of the passport holders are very little aware of the concept of ECNR (Emigration Check Not Required).
In this write-up, we will feature a portion of the imperative essentials of ECNR. In any case, before that we should comprehend what the term ECNR literally signify?
Indian travel permit holders are sorted either as ECR (Emigration Check Required) or ECNR (Emigration Check Not Required). ECNR is very successful for people looking for work exposures in the listed 18 nations including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Kuwait, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Thailand, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen.
Basically, ECNR is an endorsement stamp from the Passport specialists of India, which permits an applicant in taking up work in the above listed nations. However, migration leeway isn’t required for individuals travelling to some other nations apart from these 18 nations. Be that as it may, there are sure conditions when a few visitors are exempted from the Emigration Clearance Requirement to any of the above listed nations. Here’s the list of persons who are exempted from the ECR:
- All income tax payers including agricultural income tax payees in their individual capacity.
- Individuals holding professional degrees like Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants, scientists, MBBS etc.
- All Government servants who are gazetted
- Individuals who are residing in a foreign country for more than 3 years
- Persons whose educational qualification is up to 10th standard and above.
- People aged 50 and above.
- People with stable Immigration Visas of Australia, US and UK.
It is to be noticed that in the event that a candidate’s travel permit is wrongly sorted as ECR set up of ECNR, the issue ought to be featured to the Regional Passport Office (RPO) for rectification. Indian visa holders having ECNR stamp in their travel permits require no displacement freedom from the POE (Protector of Emigrants). Such stamps are implied for shielding the Indian labourers from getting misused in the Middle East Countries. Be that as it may, the vast majority of the visa holders don’t know whether they have ECR or ECNR stamp in their travel papers/passport. How to check it? Following are few pointers in this regard:
- Look at the top of the final page of your passport where you can check the stamp.
- As per all the regulations of MEA, all travel passport issued 2007 onwards will carry no ECNR stamp.
- Now, only ECR stamps are put in the Indian passports.
- A blank page 2 of the passport clearly indicates that a passport holder needs no Emigration clearance.
Contingent upon the different classifications, a travel permit holder needs to give different archives to ECNR including Matriculation or Higher Educational Pass Certificate, Birth Certificate issued by Municipal Authority, Nursing Certificate, Continuous Discharge Certificate, Copy of Immigration Visas, or the Permanent Resident card of the nation of stay and so on.
