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Your company issues plenty of letters. Most of them do not say the one thing a visa officer is looking for — that your job, and your return, are both real.
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IT companies are good at letters. HR portals generate employment letters, address proofs, deputation letters and travel authorisations in a couple of clicks.
Almost none of them are written for a visa officer, and one of the commonest problems we see in this group is an applicant who submitted three company letters and still had no document that did the job.
At a glance
What each one proves
What none of them proves on its own
The third one is the document that answers the officer's real question, and it is the one HR portals least often produce.
An employment letter says you have a job. An NOC says you have a job to come back to. Those are not the same claim.
Whatever your company calls the document, it should state:
Your full name as spelled in your passport
Not your display name, not initials. The officer is matching a letter to a passport.
Designation, employee ID, and date of joining
Length of service is stability, and stability is a tie.
Exact approved dates of travel
From and to, in full — and they must match your itinerary and your form.
An explicit no-objection to the travel
One plain sentence.
That your position is held and you resume on a stated date
The sentence most often missing, and the one carrying the most weight.
A signatory who can be reached
Name, designation, institutional email, direct number. On letterhead.
This is where IT applicants get into genuine trouble, and it is worth being blunt.
A business visitor visa covers meetings, client discussions, training, negotiations, conferences and internal reviews. It does not cover taking up employment abroad, delivering billable work at a client site over a long period, or an assignment that is in substance a job.
Where the line falls differs by country, and the consequences of crossing it are serious and long-lasting. If your assignment is genuinely a work posting, the correct route is a work visa — and we do not file those. Work routes need a Ministry of External Affairs Recruiting Agent licence under the Emigration Act, which this firm does not hold.
Documents that work together
Every date and name across those documents has to agree. That reconciliation is a fixed step, and it is where most salaried files quietly fail — we wrote about it separately: where the leave order, NOC and form stop matching.
Spouse and children are filed alongside you, with the relationship and funding documented once rather than three times in three slightly different versions. That single-story approach is what prevents the partial refusals families collect when each application is built separately.
Often not on its own. A deputation letter explains why the company is sending you; it frequently says nothing about sanctioned dates or your return. Ask for those two additions, or carry a separate NOC that has them.
No, and treating them as interchangeable is the most damaging mistake in this category. A business visitor visa is for meetings, training and negotiations. Employment abroad needs a work route, which we do not file — it requires an MEA Recruiting Agent licence we do not hold.
Who is inviting you, the legal entity and their address, the purpose, exact dates, and precisely which costs they cover. A vague hosting letter is weaker than a short specific one.
Show the chain honestly: your actual employer's letter, your payslips from that entity, and a line explaining the deployment. The problem is never the arrangement — it is an officer discovering a structure your documents did not mention.
Usually not, if the company is sending you — but there must still be a document stating the approved travel dates. "Approved travel" and "sanctioned leave" are different, and either works as long as the dates are explicit and consistent.
One person, start to finish. The Lifeset Corporate & Government Desk drafts the NOC in the wording embassies expect, reconciles it against your itinerary and form, and tells you plainly when what you actually need is a route we are not licensed to file.
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