The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern over Australia’s new refugee initiative and the conditions of detained asylum seekers on Australian refugee detention and processing facilities, on and off shore. According to reports, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Navi Pillay, has expressed her concern over the immediate rejections of asylum claims of [...]
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The Pacific Solution is becoming costly day by day for the Australian government as expenses for keeping and processing refugees on the offshore processing centers multiply with the increase in their number. The Australian immigration authorities are being pushed by the Nauru government to increase the fees per month of each refugee sent to the [...]
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Australian immigration minister claims that immigration department has been successful in discouraging refugees from arriving in Australia on boats through the new Pacific Solution that went into action in August this year. Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen told local media agencies that the government has been able to reduce, or at least stabilize, the number [...]
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Australian immigration authorities have announced that they will be considering possible initiatives to crackdown on foreign flight crew members who are also flying domestic flights in Australia after arriving to the country. Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) officials have announced that the government will be reviewing visa arrangements for flight crew members for particular [...]
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Immigration authorities in Hong Kong are facing loss of valuable immigration data after their offices were recently burgled. According to local news agencies, the Hong Kong immigration department suffered loss of immigration data related to thousands of travelers, when 3 netbook computers were stolen from the high security office premises, which are locked at all [...]
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Immigration experts in overseas and local immigration consultancy firms are claiming that the compulsory test that foreign students have to go through while applying for an Australian Student Visa is much too open to abuse by Australian immigration officers. The ‘Genuine Temporary Entrant’ (GTE) test was introduced by the Australian immigration authorities in order to [...]
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Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott has said that he will not be affected by the mocking comments of the Australian government officials, claiming that the coalition will not take serious the words of those who have not delivered good governance to the people of Australia. After returning from his official visit to Indonesia, where he [...]
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The UK immigration authorities have been constantly asking the government to provide with appropriate number of immigration and border security staff to cover up the shortage that has been haunting them since the beginning of this year. The UK Border Agency (UKBA) and the UK Border Force (UKBF) have been suffering from staff shortages since [...]
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New Zealand immigration authorities have been pursuing enforcement of strict immigration rules more consistently since the government began its crackdown against immigration offenders. Recently, Immigration New Zealand (IZ) has fined an airline for not comprehending with the country’s immigration regulations. IZ officials have stated that they have been able to gain a court order to [...]
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the launching of an ‘immigration hotline’ on Wednesday October 3rd, 2012, which will provide information and guidelines on immigration related topics to the expats and others living in the UAE. According to the UAE immigration officials, the Hot Line 8005111 was particularly created to put an end to the [...]
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