Draft law on the Rights of Foreigners in France
The government finalized its draft of Law on the Rights of Foreigners in France. The new law would increase the use of multi-annual permits to stay, create new immigration categories and eliminate the work permit requirement for assignments of less than three months.
IBA Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Tokyo, 19-24 October 2014
Pre-immigration planning and exit taxation, visas and passport shopping
Presented by the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee and the Individual Tax and Private Client Committee
October 23, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Session Co-Chairs
Gerd Goyvaerts Tiberghien Advocaten, Antwerp, Belgium;
Publication and Newsletter Editor, Individual Tax and Private Client Committee
Karl Waheed, Karl Waheed Avocats, Paris, France;
Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee
Speakers
Leigh-Alexandra Basha Holland & Knight, McLean, Virginia, USA;
Officer, LPD Conference Quality Committee
Jack Bernstein Aird & Berlis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clayton Cartwright The Cartwright Law Firm, Columbus, Georgia, USA
Brian Harris Brian Harris & Co, London, England
Marco Mazzeschi Mazzeschi, Milan, Italy
Wim Nan Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dirk Nuyts Fragomen, Brussels, Belgium
Yusra Siddiquee Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Relaxation of the conditions for obtaining the Interim Authorization to Stay for graduates and other contributions of Decree of August 18 2014 – August 25, 2014
A decree N°2014-921 issued 18 August 2014 by the Ministry of Interior conducts several regulatory changes concerning foreign workers, while the debate on the new bill on Immigration will not resume until this autumn.
France adopts a law to better combat fraud in the framework of posted workers – Aug 5th, 2014
The Act of 10 July 2014 against unfair social competition translates into French law, the Directive of the European Union of 15 May 2014, laying down a set of mechanisms to prevent and punish any violation or circumvention of posting procedures in the European Union.
EU Directive 2014/66 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer – June 6, 2014
The European parliament and the Council of the EU adopted the Directive 2014/66 which provides for an EU wide immigration status suited to posting of assignees from affiliates located outside the EU to affiliates within EU. The directive provides for simplified and transparent processing for assignees and their family members, and facilitates intra-EU mobility. Member States (except UK, Ireland and Denmark who opted out) must transpose this directive into national law by 29 November 2016.