Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, has announced the list of Designated Countries of Origin for the new refugee system on December 14, 2012. The list includes 27 countries which do not normally produce genuine asylum claimants. Only two countries are out side the European Union area. The Minister said that new amendments in [...]
Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, has announced that visitors and students from certain nationals including Pakistan will be required to provide fingerprints when they apply for visas starting from 2013. The fingerprinting will reduce the visa frauds by providing reliable tool to the immigration officials. Canada has also included 28 other countries and [...]
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Australian immigration department has announced successfully closing down a sham marriage scheme that was being used to obtain legal status in Australia by the Indian nationals. Department of Immigration and Citizenship Australia (DIA) along with other law enforcing agencies raided the premises allegedly being used to stage the sham marriages between Indian men and Australian [...]
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The Cayman Islands immigration officials will soon be collecting fingerprints of all the immigrants employed on work permits and foreign students to check the immigration status. The immigration officers will use fingerprint recording machines during the work site inspection. The spouses of the Caymanian will be exempt from the finger printing. The fingerprinting will be [...]
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Australia’s new immigration program targeting wealthy millionaires in China has started to accept applications from those who have at least $5.0 millions in their pockets without meeting the language requirements. Department of Immigration and Citizenship expects to grant “significant investor visas” to about 700 investors each year. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen calls it “important new [...]
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A South African manufacturing leader has asked the government to increase skilled migrations to the country in order to encourage the growth of South Africa’s manufacturing industry and its economy, which has been experiencing a financial crunch for years. Chairperson of the Manufacturing Circle (MC) in South Africa, Stewart Jennings, said that the South African [...]
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Officials in the United Kingdom are working on changes in the UK immigration policies for Chinese tourists, which will streamline visa procedures for what experts claim to be one of the largest contributors to the country’s tourism sector. According to media sources, the chief executive officer of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), Rob Whiteman, will [...]
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Tourism association of New Zealand has supported the deal with China Southern Airline (CSA) to streamline visa processing for Chinese visitors, who are members of the airline’s Frequent Flyers’ club. As per local news reports, officials from the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) have said that the agreement with CSA to streamline the visitors’ [...]
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Immigration rate in Germany is increasing rapidly according to a report compiled by officials in a federal organization. The study, conducted by the Federal department for statistics in Germany, Destatis, has shown that migration numbers in the country, particularly from country’s suffering from the effects of the euro economic crisis, are rising rapidly as compared [...]
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Australia is reaching out to the Sri Lankans with a warning not to embark on life threatening sea journey to seek asylum in Australia. All the asylum seekers arriving by boats will be sent back to Sri Lanka as soon as possible without any financial or legal assistance. Australia’s regional director for South Asia warned [...]
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