It is also home to two million Pakistanis who remit some of their earnings to families at home – a vital source of foreign income for the cash-strapped country.
The employer must withhold state and federal income taxes and social-security taxes from the nanny's wages weekly and remit them to the various tax authorities every quarter, as well as dealing with the agencies that run unemployment-insurance and injury-insurance schemes.
They remit $70 billion a year to their home country, more than any other group of expats.
Whenever the country ran short of foreign exchange, it would rely on Indians abroad to deposit their pounds and dollars in Indian banks, or remit their riyals and dirhams to Indian families.
In March it led the attack on the north-eastern town of Raqqa, the largest one now under rebel control.In this section Let them remit A tale of two families The struggle to restore calm Competition among Islamists They're not ill ReprintsPolitically Ahrar al-Sham has been clever.
Since when has a major equivalent museum (National Gallery, Louvre or Prado) had as its remit the requirement to be "fun" (Tate Britain needs to put the fun into art, 2 April)?
"It is within my remit to refer to government any emerging issue that may require further regulation.
It is surely within PEN's remit to decide if Charlie Hebdo's commitment to the images (racist or not) constitutes courage.
The Liberal Democrats passed a motion at conference calling on the government to "expand the bank's scale and remit as fast as possible, including relaxing the restriction on its ability to borrow before total public sector debt begins to fall".
The modern slavery bill provides an opportunity to expand the GLA's remit and resources so that it can start to reach the workers we know are exploited all around us, in factories, construction sites and care homes.
Quite the wrong thing to say within a corporation under pressure to prove that it can fulfil its remit in terms of minority communities.
