Working Visas and problems for french indian couple

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felip

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I have a french boyfriend and we are serious about each other and would like to get married. He was working here from April 2005 to April 2006 but had to return to France because his contract expired. He wants to return to India and he recieved another contract from a different company.(He is a hairstylist by profession but was employed as a fashion trainer and consultant in a luxury salon in Delhi. When he applied for a working visa again with necessary contract papers in Oct 2006 the Indian embassy requested form 16 papers from his previous employer. Duly obtained and submitted they then asked for a SARAL form income tax return which was also sent to him. But they again refused him a work permit on the grounds that India did not require more hairstylists. The company that wants to employ him now have been unable to pull strings for him to obtain a work permit. He did mention that I am here in India and maybe they rejected his application because of immigration fears...i dont know.They have adviced him to obtain a tourist visa.

My question is

Is it possible for him to come here on a tourist visa and try to apply for a work permit from sri lanka or some other country? will he get this visa? Seems a friend of his managed to get a work permit through a lawyer but i dont know?

Even if I marry him will he be able to work here or does he have to live in India for 1 year after the marriage to obtain a PIO?
Please help we are desperate and have no other avenues to explore and we have been battling this for the past 1 year or so
 
spouse of indian citizen is eligible for PIO (it seems)

See eligibility for PIO under (iii) below.

rk


"Person of Indian origin" means a foreign citizen not being a citizen of Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries as may be specified by the Central Government from time to time if.

(i) he/she at any time held a Indian passport; or

(ii) he/she or either of his/her parents or grand parents or great grand parents was born in and permanently resident in India as defined in the Government of India Act, 1935 and other territories that became part of India thereafter provided neither was at any time a citizens of any of the aforesaid countries (as referred to in 2(b)above; or

(iii) he/she is a spouse of a citizen of India or a person of Indian origin covered under (i) or (ii) above.

http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/PIO/Introduction_PIO.html
 
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