{"id":2101,"date":"2022-08-02T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:03:11","slug":"streamlining-the-procedures-for-ops-and-ypops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/streamlining-the-procedures-for-ops-and-ypops\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamlining the procedures for OPs and YPOPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a\nmeasure for business facilitation, Mauritius allows foreigners various\nopportunities to obtain residence permit in Mauritius, in the form of\nOccupation Permits (OP) and Young Professional Occupation Permits (YPOP), to\nwork and live on the island. In this respect, the Government of Mauritius has\nmade the process for the application of OP and YPOP more efficient and has\ndecided to streamline the procedures for foreigners looking to work and live in\nMauritius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measures which have recently been adopted are as follows:i<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>With regards to OP: <\/strong><\/li><li>Occupational permits which were previously\nonly allocated to those arriving in Mauritius on a business visa, is now being\noffered to those on a tourist visa as well. <\/li><li>Applications for OP from students would only\nbe considered after completion of their studies. However, employment should be\nrelated to their field of studies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>With regards to YPOP:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A holder\nof YPOP will be allowed to switch to an OP category with another company only\nafter termination of his\/her current contract of employment with his\/her\ncurrent employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A holder\nof YPOP will be allowed to switch OP category under his\/her current valid\ncontract of employment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benefits of Switching from YPOP to OP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the\nYPOP provides the holder a residency permit for only three years, certain\ncategories of OP provides the holder a residency permit of up to ten years or\nfor the duration of their contract of employment;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OP\nholders, compared to YPOP holders, also have the opportunity to work in wider\nfields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Fintech, Robotics,\nFinancial Services, Information Technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a measure for business facilitation, Mauritius allows foreigners various opportunities to obtain residence permit in Mauritius, in the form of Occupation Permits (OP) and Young Professional Occupation Permits (YPOP), to work and live on the island. In this respect, the Government of Mauritius has made the process for the application of OP and YPOP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archglobalconsult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}