STEM Jobs Act Faces Roadblock in US Senate
The STEM Jobs Act for immigrant higher degree graduates is facing major hurdle in the United Sates Senate after approved by the US House earlier this month. Republicans majority led House passed the Act that would replace 55,000 Diversity Lottery Visas by same number of visas for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates from [...]
Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen failed to defend his department’s decision to deport an Afghan refugee claimant just one day before the planed deportation on November 24, 2012. The Australian Federal court stayed the deportation until February 01, 2013 when an identical case will be decided by the full court. Deportation of a failed refugee [...]
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Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has announced that Canada will be working towards the visa free travel with Mexico once the countries immigration system has been amended in such a way that it eliminates problems in the past. The visiting Mexican president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto appreciated the Canadian PM intentions for visa free travel. Canada [...]
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Immigration was a priority matter during the meeting of Canada’s premiers in Halifax as immigrants play key role in the growth of the provincial economies. The provincial leaders want more control over the immigration and urged the federal government to increase the immigration quota for provinces. Some even wants the control over immigration similar way [...]
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Spain is contemplating a new immigration program which would allow foreigners to become eligible for Spanish permanent residency just by investing a minimum amount of money in the country. Earlier this week, the Spanish government announced that it is currently considering a proposal to create a special foreign investors visa program allowing foreigners investing particularly [...]
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U.S immigration officials in India have announced various changes in their visa procedures, particularly relating to personal interviews of the applicants, in order to streamline visa application procedures for Indian applicants for a U.S visa. Earlier this week, the U.S Ambassador to India, Nancy J Powell, stated that the U.S immigration authorities have decided to [...]
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Canada’s privacy watchdog has expressed concerns regarding the Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) new Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) program, claiming that the department has not yet provided any details regarding the nature of personal questions that might be asked from the travelers, and the security measures that the department will maintain to keep this information [...]
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Officials belonging to an influential labor union in South Australia have announced that their organization has launched a new project which will focus on providing help and assistance to foreign workers in Australia who are mostly exploited by their local employers. Officials from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) in South Australia have said that [...]
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The Mayor of London has asked the government to immediately consider changing its tight immigration policies, which he says are damaging the country’s economy very badly. Mayor Boris Johnson told local news agencies that he will be working to increase skilled and qualified immigration to the UK, even if it is from South Asian countries. [...]
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Australia to Release about 2,000 Refugees in Community on Bridging Visas
November 14, 2012 No CommentAustralian immigration authorities have announced that they will be transferring thousands of asylum seekers from the Christmas Island refugee detention facility, due to overflowing numbers of refugees in the center. Earlier this week, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) officials announced that almost 2,000 asylum seekers, who have arrived to the country before the [...]
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