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Taiwan and Ireland Sign Youth Working Holiday Visa Agreement

Taiwan has announced details pertaining to a new immigration agreement signed by the government with the Irish immigration authorities. Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MOFA) director general, Hsu Mien-Sheng, announced last week some new details regarding the ‘Youth Working Holiday’ agreement signed by Taiwanese immigration authorities with their Irish counterparts. The agreement, which was signed [...]

Irish government has been urged to encourage higher levels of immigration to the country in order to improve the country’s economy in a report released earlier this week. The report titled ‘Migrants and the Irish Economy’ claimed that the negative attitude of Irish citizens that mass immigration would have adverse effects on the country’s economic [...]

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The biometric data matches revealed that a shocking number of 1300 out of 2000 failed refugee claimants in Ireland were caught up in identity swapping on previous occasions. Ireland denied their refugee claims after finding the previous immigration histories through biometric data sharing with United Kingdom. Ireland has visa waiver program for nationals of 14 [...]

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United Kingdom (UK) Direct Airside Transit Visa (DATV) is now required for nationals of Libya, Egypt and Syria while transiting through UK with effect from April 3, 2012. The passengers transiting through UK can enter the country through air or land, and then continue their onward journey to a third country without staying in UK. [...]

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Ireland Visa waiver policy hikes tourism market

The Irish government’s recently-launched visa waiver scheme has increased manifold the tourist inflow from India along with improvising the local tourism industry rapidly. Initiated in July 2011, the visa waiver policy was meant for those Indians who possess UK visas. Under this programme, the Indian tourists having valid British visas can now visit Ireland without [...]

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10,500 USA Work Visas for Irish Profesionals Proposed

USA Senator Scott Brown has introduced an immigration bill that will include Irish nationals in the E3 visa program. The Bill, if approved, will allow 10,500 work visas for Irish nationals with college degrees renewable after every two years. Currently Chile is allowed work visas for 1,400 professionals each year. Australia gets 10,500 work visas [...]

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Ireland keen to attract foreign tourists

The Irish immigration and tourism authorities have chalked out a policy to attract numerous foreign visitors, especially from Brazil and Russia, by making the country an ideal place for recreation and entertainment. In a bid to achieve this milestone, the tourism ministry has reserved a huge fund worth of €5 million. This fund is to [...]

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The persistent economic crisis in Ireland are potentially pushing the natives to migrate to the stable economies including UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada in pursuit of work opportunities. During 2011, a huge increase was noted in the ratio of the Irish immigrants. The British government issued 56 percent more insurance numbers to the [...]

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Ireland is offering immigration to wealthy investors from non-European Union countries though  two initiatives entitled as The Immigrant Investor Programme and The Start-up Entrepreneur Programme in a bid to attract overseas investors to help improve its economy. The target of these two immigration packages will mainly be non-Europeans who, the Irish economists think, can bring [...]

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