United Kingdom and Australia are trying to lead the race to attract super rich foreign nationals in a bid to get foreign investment by offering permanent residency with minimum or no restrictions on factors such as age, English language skills or even the time required to be spend in the country. United Kingdom offers residency [...]
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United Kingdom (UK) has introduced new reforms in the immigration policies in order to attract foreign professionals, particularly from non-European Union (EU) countries, to come and work in the country. On Thursday November 22nd, 2012, the UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, issued a statement in the UK House of Commons which included initiatives to relax [...]
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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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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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Government officials in Bangladesh have objected to the list of banks released by UK’s immigration authorities, whose documents will be accepted by them with the UK visa application forms. According to local media sources, the foreign ministry officials in Bangladesh said that they will not accept the list of banks provided to them by the [...]
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UK government has admitted that it might not be able to prevent mass immigrations from Bulgaria and Romania when the countries get permission to exercise their rights under the European Union’s (EU) Free Movement Directive. Home Secretary Theresa May has said that the UK immigration authorities do not have powers to deny Romanian and Bulgarian [...]
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The United Kingdom (UK) immigration has once again been alleged of mismanaging immigration cases leading to massive backlogs in application processing. The UK Commons Home Affairs Select Committee has claimed that the current backlog cases in the agency, most of which are of illegal immigration, are increasing at an alarming rate, and the agency is [...]
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UK Experts are expressly opposing the revised pay thresholds for immigrant Information Technology (IT) workers in the country, which were recently published in a report by a committee. Salary Services/Jobadswatch, an organization having expertise in such matters, has criticized the new salary thresholds for IT professionals, claiming that they are ill-conceived and impractical in nature. [...]
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