Key Points
Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders performing
research, conducting journalistic activities, performing work as
missionaries, or visiting any Protected, Restricted and Prohibited
area in India will be further enforced to obtain special permission
from the relevant jurisdictional Indian government authority
OCI cardholders living in India will also now be required to
notify their jurisdictional Foreigners Regional Registration Office
or Foreigners Registration Office if they make changes to their
Indian residential address and/or place of employment
Overview
Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders are permanent
residents of India. This status is granted to people of Indian
origin and their spouses. The OCI status allows cardholders to live
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On January 29, 2021, Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark issued a Standing
Order setting forth new procedures for the filing, service, and
management of highly sensitive documents, defined as HSD . The Standing Order was issued in response to
recent widespread disclosures of breaches of both private sector
and government computer systems.
As the Order makes clear, most documents are presumptively
deemed to not contain highly sensitive information
( HSI ), including most sealed filings in civil
cases, including the overwhelming majority (if not all) sealed
documents filed in intellectual property and Chapter 11
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In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has shown a
keen interest in procuring certain prototype, research, and
production requirements using the Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
at 10 U.S.C. § 2371b. The advantage of OTAs is that they are
highly flexible, meaning they can usually avoid the burden of
complex government regulatory requirements included in the Federal
Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and its agency-specific supplements.
As the use of OTAs increases across the DoD, federal contractors
and businesses exploring federal opportunities need to understand
Executive Summary
On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued his Executive
Order on Ensuring the Future is made in all of America by All of
America s Workers (the Executive Order ). It
declares that it is the policy of the Executive Branch that the
U.S. Government should. use terms and conditions of Federal
financial assistance awards and Federal procurements to maximize
the use of goods, products, and materials produced in. the United
States. This new Executive Order is likely to be impetus for
increased FDI by overseas vendors selling to or seeking financial
assistance from the U.S. Government.
Section 3 of the Executive Order mandates that all U.S.
Budget hearings wrapped up this week in the House of Representatives. Here's a look at the hearings that took place and some main topics discussed in each.