law: Emigration Act, 1983
  22. Requirement, etc, as to emigration
  
  clearance.-
  (1) No citizen of India shall emigrate unless
  
  he obtains under this Chapter from the Protector of Emigrants authorization in
  
  the prescribed manner and form (and authorization being hereinafter referred to
  
  as emigration clearance ) for emigration.
  An application for emigration clearance shall
  
  be in the prescribed form, shall contain the prescribed particulars and shall
  
  be made by the emigrant concerned to the Protector of Emigrants :
  Provided that such application may be made
  
  through the recruiting agent, if any, through whom the emigrant has been
  
  recruited or through the employer concerned.
  Every application under sub section (2) shall
  
  be accompanied by - A true copy (verified and authenticated in the prescribed
  
  manner) of the agreement with respect to the employment for taking up of which
  
  the applicant proposes to emigrate and where such agreement does not provide
  
  for all or any of the prescribed matters, also a statement (verified and
  
  authenticated in the prescribed manner) setting out the particulars with
  
  respect to such matters, a statement (verified and authenticated in the
  
  prescribed manner) as to the provision by way of security for meeting the
  
  expenses which may be incurred in case it becomes necessary to arrange for the
  
  repatriation to India of the applicant.
  A receipt evidencing the payment of the
  
  prescribed fee such other relevant documents or copies or relevant documents as
  
  may be prescribed.
  The Protector of Emigrants shall, after
  
  satisfying himself about the accuracy of the particulars mentioned in the
  
  application and in the other documents submitted along with the application,
  
  authorize in the prescribed manner and form, the emigration of the applicant or
  
  intimate by order in writing the applicant or, as the case may be, the recruiting
  
  agent or employer through whom the applications have been made about the
  
  deficiencies and require him to make goods such deficiencies within such time
  
  as may be specified in the order or reject the application.
  Subject to the other provisions of this Act,
  
  the Protector of Emigrants may reject an application for emigration clearance
  
  under this section on any one or more of the following grounds and on no other
  
  ground, namely :- That the terms and conditions of employment which the
  
  applicant proposes to take up are discriminatory or exploitative, that the
  
  employment which the applicant proposes to take up involves work of a nature
  
  which is unlawful according to the laws of India or offends against the public
  
  policy of India or is voilative of norms of human dignity and decency, that the
  
  applicant will have to work or live in sub-standard working or living
  
  conditions, that having regard to the prevailing circumstances in the country
  
  or place where the applicant proposes to take up employment or the antecedents
  
  to the employer under whom the applicant proposes to take up employment or any
  
  other relevant circumstances, it would not be in the interest of the applicant
  
  to emigrate.