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Canada is Doubling Working Holiday Visas for Young Irish Nationals

Canada is planning to increase the number of Irish youth allowable to enter Canada under the International Experience Canada program from about 5,000 to 10,000 by the year 2014. Furthermore, the maximum allowable period will also be increased from 12 months to 24 months so they could benefit from the regulatory amendments in the Canadian [...]

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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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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