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Phew! Companies do care about spousal work permits

Phew! it seems that companies are behind the hard work of the Permits Foundation, after all. This organisation works hard to get governments to offer spouses work visas, and late last year decided it was time to check whether their tireless lobbying still matters. It seems it does.

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Permits Foundation survey online now

I’ve long been a fan of this organisation and its director, Kathleen van der Wilk-Carlton is a friend of mine. Permits Foundation does sterling work, lobbying for governments to give work permits to expat spouses and so I urge you to help the cause by completing their brand new survey here.

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Jo Parfitt's Celebration in The Hague

Wow! Did we have fun last night as I celebrated the launch of my 25th book at Lesley Fisher’s beautiful apartment in Den Haag with 50 of the finest folk whom I have the pleasure to call my friends, colleagues and supporters. As a ‘trailing spouse’ it is not always easy to pursue a [...]

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