The recruiting agent will become responsible for the actions of the emigrant during the entire period of the fixed-term contract. Further, it will also increase the rate that can be charged by recruiting agents from their clients.

The 2002 amendment bill to the Emigration Act 1983 was presented to parliament in November 2002 but then had been referred to the standing committee of labour and welfare in December 2002. The committee brought out a report in December 2003 suggesting changes in the bill.

The ministry of labour had already brought extensive changes through the Emigration Rules 2002. Then in 2004, the government changed and emigration went out of the hands of the labour ministry to the new ministry of overseas Indian affairs.