Australian and Indonesian leaders have met at the Northern Territory capital of Darwin to discuss the issue of boat people after the Indian Ocean tragedy that left 90 illegal asylum seekers on board dead. Both the leaders decided to enhance the collaboration between two countries’ maritime forces in order to avoid such disasters in future [...]
Canada has launched a National Action Plan to fight the serious crime of human trafficking with participation from 18 federal departments. Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews said, “The Harper Government is committed to keeping our streets and communities safe.” Minister Toews further added,“Our Government is firmly committed to the global fight against human [...]
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New Zealand Immigration (INZ) foiled an attempt of human smuggling while a group of nine women was trying to board a flight from Malaysia to New Zealand. INZ Border Operations Manager Karen Urwin said the women were allegedly coming to New Zealand for a week-long tour of the South Island. This was the single largest [...]
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UK Border Agency together with Spanish law enforcing authorities has apprehended nine members of a criminal gang suspected of assisting migrants to enter UK illegally mostly from Iran. The arrests were made in Spain. The arrested persons have been charged with human trafficking, producing and providing forged documentation, credit card fraud and membership of criminal [...]
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Australia has raised concerns over Indonesian immigration policy to relax country’s immigration laws for the citizens of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Initially, new and easy immigration rules are set to be introduced for the national of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In the second stage, same relaxed visa rules and regulations will be implemented [...]
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Indian police had nabbed three culprits at the Indra Gandhi International airport (New Delhi) who were planning to fly to Canada with fake security and Immigration Bureau stamps. They were to board the domestic leg of the Air India flight from New Delhi to Amritsar which was then bound to fly to Canada. Central Industrial [...]
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