Pravasilokham is a portal designed exclusively to help and support Keralites who are living abroad as well as outside Kerala but within India. Through this portal, you will get the address, contact number, e-mail address, and web address of all Indian embassies or consulates in their respective countries. You can also find the address, contact number, and email address of all recognized Malayalee associations in India and around the world on this site.

The Kerala government has launched several schemes to ensure the rehabilitation and social security of non-resident Keralites (NRKs).  One of such schemes is SANTHWANA, which aims to provide financial assistance to NRKs who have returned after at least 2 years of working abroad and whose annual income is below Rs. 1,00,000. This financial assistance is made available from the minister’s disaster relief fund to help returnees meet his medical treatment expenses or that of the dependant family members, as death assistance, for the marriage of daughters and to buy any aids to overcome the physical disability such as artificial limbs, wheelchairs, crutches, etc.

Another scheme is to offer financial assistance to deserving NRKs or family members of the NRKs from the chairman’s fund to meet funeral and medical expenses. There is another major scheme called Karunyam, which is intended to provide financial assistance to legal heirs of NRKs for repatriation of dead bodies of NRKs from abroad and within India. In addition, the government of Kerala also launched a project called Pravasi Legal Aid Cell to render free legal aid to NRKs in various countries, especially in the Middle East for employment issues, filing cases, compensation, and mercy petitions. You will get all the information about these schemes on our website.

The government also issue photo identity cards and insurance cards for Keralites living or working abroad and other states of India.  You will get information about the benefits, eligibility criteria, documents required, registration fee, and validity of these cards. In addition, you will get information about how to apply online for these cards and the renewal of these cards, and how to raise grievances related to these cards on this site.

We provide you all the details of certificate attestation including timings and venues of certificate attestation and address, phone numbers and email address of various certificate attestation centers, documents to be enclosed along with application form, which all person can submit the application for authentication, which all certificates will be authenticated and which all will not be authenticated,  which all certificates, in general, will be authenticated in various certificate attestation centers and which all certificates will be authenticated only after verification, attestation fees as well as contact details of authentication centers in other states.

The Kerala government also launched Pravasi Scholarship scheme to provide scholarships to children of NRKs belonging to the ECR category having worked or working as unskilled labours, house drivers, and housemaids abroad.  We bring to you all the details of this scheme.

The government also conducts a pre-departure orientation programme to overseas job aspirants with an aim to make them aware of general job situations abroad and to give essential information regarding visa, emigration rules, employment contracts, customs regulations, travel formalities, etc. You will get the date, time, location details, and contact details on our web site.

The government of Kerala also provides a support system to provide sufficient training and orientation to prospective emigrants. The programme aims at upgrading the skills of the young workforce who are seeking employment and those who have lost jobs outside Kerala to meet the challenges in the employment market and to bring knowledge, deep functional expertise, and a practical approach to building capabilities and delivering real impact.

The government also provide immediate financial assistance to those NRKs who were not able to join back for the job or lost the job due to covid issues.  The government has also introduced a rehabilitation package called NDPREM to help the returned NRKs to find a reasonable steady income for their livelihood.  Under this scheme, banks will sanction loans for starting modest enterprises in areas of interest of the returned emigrants.  You can find all the details of the orientation programme and the government schemes on the Pravasilokham website.

You can view the latest vacancies available overseas and get the website address of Kerala government, police, passport offices, the government of India, ministry of external affairs, protector of emigrants, chief electoral officer, online voter registration for NRKs, and cultural affairs department on this portal.

We will allow you to view ad films against visa cheats and fraud recruiting agencies and agents.  Through this site, you will get the address and email of Kerala police NRI cell, 24-hour helpline numbers and address as well as mobile numbers of the superintendent of police, deputy superintendent of police, and inspector of police. This will help you to easily and quickly contact them for any legal helps with regard to your grievances. You can also view the latest news, photos, and video gallery and get all the information about the upcoming programmes and activities on this website.

Job seekers can browse through enlisted jobs, apply online, and register with us.  This helps them to get hired for relevant job opportunities. We will also allow returned emigrants to register their bio-data on our website.