Jiang Rongqing Participated in Contractors’ Conference on India’s New Visa Policy

Conference background: In mid-July 2009, India’s Ministry of the Interior decided to no longer allow foreign, especially Chinese, engineers to remain in India to work on projects on business visas. All persons holding a business visa and working on project construction in India are required to leave the country and apply for work permits before 30 September (extended to 31 October 2009 after negotiations by the Chinese Embassy in India), irrespective of whether their visa has expired. In September 2009, the Ministry of Labor of India further announced a new policy, stipulating that work permits issued in relation to each individual project must be no more than 1% of the total number of employees working on the project, with 20 as the maximum limit.
On 8 December 2009, the China Foreign Construction Project Association held a special conference to examine various contract management and legal strategies to actively respond to India’s new visa policy, counteract its negative impact upon Chinese construction projects in India, and safeguard the legal rights of Chinese contractors.
Dacheng senior partner Jiang Rongqing was invited to take part in the conference. He provided constructive advice to Chinese-invested companies on the issues of compensation, contract re-negotiations, guarantees, and dispute resolution.