India’s Proposed Overseas Mobility Bill 2024: Ensuring Safe and Legal Migration

The Indian government is actively working on a new legislative framework to facilitate safe and legal overseas employment for its citizens. 

With the proposed Overseas Mobility (Facilitation and Welfare) Bill, 2024, India aims to modernize migration policies by replacing the Emigration Act of 1983 to ensure safe migration amid outrage over the US deporting 104 Indians in chains. 

This decision follows controversy over the US deporting over 100 Indian migrants, who arrived in Amritsar chained and shackled aboard a C-17 US military aircraft.

The reason for such deportation is entering the country unlawfully, violating visa regulations or using unauthorized routes like Mexico and Central America.