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Australia Announces Offshore Processing Centers to be ready by September

Australia is in the final stage of preparing the Nauru Refugee Claimants processing centers to accommodate about 500 asylum seekers by September this year. The announcement was made by the Australian Prime minister Julia Gillard and the country’s immigration minister Chris Bowen on Thursday August 23rd, 2012. The statements came more than a week after [...]

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Obtaining US non-immigrant visas such as H1-B will become much tougher for employers once the US Department of Labour (DOL) adapts new rules to hire foreign nationals to work in United States on work permit. Information Technology industry that employs cheap skilled workers from countries such as China and India will be hit hard by [...]

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he investigations into the alleged violations of US immigration fraud by Infosys Technologies are continuing, however, the harassment charges in the same complaint were dropped by an Alabama judge this Monday. Jack Palmer, an Infosys consultant, had accused the outsourcing giant of abusing the US immigration rules by bringing employees from India on short-term work [...]

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Rep. Michael Grimm’s supporter during 2010 congressional election campaign has been detained in New York on charges of violating immigration laws as claimed in a number of media reports. Businessman Ofer Biton, an Israeli national, assisted the Congressman in fund raising to the tune of thousands of dollars. Businessman Ofer Biton has been charged with [...]

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Investigation of PEI investor immigration program closed

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada Border Services Agency initiated an investigation into the claims of corruption in Prince Edward Island’s (PEI) Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) last fall on direction by the Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.  The Canada Border Services Agency has announced closing the probe after finding now credible evidence of corruption and [...]

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The US president Barack Obama’s well awaited deferred deportation program for young illegal immigrants in the country kicked off this Wednesday August 15th, 2012, with thousands of undocumented immigrant youth and young adults turning up at various immigration centers and voluntary advisory workshops. Chicago’s Navy Pier was one of the most crowded places on Wednesday [...]

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Rescued refugees on board a merchant vessel heading for Singapore forced it to divert its course towards Australia early this week. The Captain, who was unnamed by the authorities, told the Australian Maritime Safety Authorities that he was reluctantly directing the vessel towards Christmas Island under aggression from the onboard asylum seekers and due to [...]

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The US South Carolina Immigration Enforcement Unit is preparing to start its operations in the area to crackdown on local illegal immigrant criminals, the S.C law enforcement agency officials stated earlier this week. The Immigration police, although exclusively for illegal immigrant criminals, will not be allowed to check the immigration status of the suspects in [...]

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The Canadian immigration department is considering changing study permit and visa rules for foreign students limiting the number of their possible arrivals in the country. The Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) officials said this Tuesday August 14th, 2012, that Canada may opt to introduce some stringent regulations for foreign students to curb the number of [...]

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The Australian Coalition has declared that it will not compromise with the government on their stance of offshore processing of the refugees in Malaysia at any cost. Due to this, the government is facing another setback in its attempt to clear off the deadlock faced by the country’s political circles on the asylum seekers issue [...]

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