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Asian Countries are Top Sources of Immigrants in Australia

Asian Countries are Top Sources of Immigrants in Australia

Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP has announced that the top three sources of permanent migrants in Australia are India, China and United Kingdom according to the 2011-12 immigration statistical data. The migrants of Indian origin contributed about 16 per cent to the migrants under the permanent migration program during the year [...]

Canada Immigration Policy may Encourage Domestic Abuse

The new immigration policy framed by the Canadian government to deter the immigration marriage fraud issue in the country has no room for domestic abuse victims. The policy, which is ready to be implemented in early fall this year, applies a condition on the sponsored spouse or partner to spend at least 2 years living [...]

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Saskatchewan Reconsidering Family Sponsorship Change

Canadian provincial government of Saskatchewan recently announced a number of changes to Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Programme (SINP) including one that limited the number of family members who can be sponsored for Canadian permanent residency at a time. The Minister for Advanced Education Employment and Immigration in Saskatchewan Bill Boyd has indicated that Saskatchewan government is [...]

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Canada Citizenship and Immigration is mulling over the idea of requiring a health care bond to sponsor parents or grandparents into Canada by making a contribution to the health care costs. Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jasson Kenney has said, “One idea has been to require families to put down some kind of a health [...]

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New Zealand immigration category for Sibling and Adult Child Category is closing on May 15, 2012 and a new two-tier process for parents will be introduced in late July this year. New Zealand Immigration Minister, Nathan Guy, said that new polices in the family class immigration will be helpful not only in attracting and retaining [...]

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United Kingdom allows sponsoring a spouse to come and live in UK with the other better half. However, a number of people who are in danger of loosing their status in UK try to use sham marriage with a UK resident to avoid deportation. Similarly, foreign nationals also use the fraudulent or paper marriages to [...]

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The case of a woman charged with two counts of misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and two counts of bigamy has been declared a mistrial.  A new trial will be scheduled for later date. A twelve member British Columbia Supreme Court jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision. Jotika Ashni Reddy [...]

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Canadian permanent residents or Canadian citizens sponsoring their spouses who happen to live in Pakistan must wait for at least 33 months before their application for spousal sponsorship can be approved. Spousal sponsorship application process is a two step process. First the case processing center in Vegerveile Canada assesses the eligibility of the sponsor. There [...]

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Nazima Khatun, a Fijian-Indian woman who was facing deportation from New Zealand has won her battle to remain in the country. Ms Khatun came to New Zealand under her husband’s visa. However, she decided to leave her husband once she was regulary abused and assaulted by him. Her decision to abandon her husband made her [...]

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Sponsored Spouse Barred to Bring new Partner into Canada within 5 years

Spouses who came to Canada and became Canadian permanent resident or citizens will be unable to submit a sponsorship application to bring a new spouse within a period of five year of gaining the permanent resident status effective March 2, 2012. Canadian government has been working to deter the immigration frauds involving marriages and it [...]

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