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Grenada Welcomes EU’s Decision Allowing Grenadians Visa-Free Travel to Schengen Area

Grenada has expressed appreciation for the European Commission’s decision to provide visa-free travel facility to Grenadians traveling to countries in the Schengen area. Grenadian immigration officials and the country’s Prime Minister, and the minister for Foreign affairs, Mr. Tillman Thomas said that country is delighted at the commission’s decision. Mr. Thomas also said that the [...]

European Commission has proposed easing travel restrictions on citizens of 16 nations allowing them to travel to members of Schengen agreement without requiring obtaining visa as long as their stay is not longer than 90 days. The list includes 5 Caribbean Island nations, ten Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste. The proposal will have to be [...]

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EU will Use Drones to Bust Illegal Immigrants

The European Union (EU) is planning on finalizing its project of using Drone technology for apprehending potential illegal immigrants trying to cross into the Schengen Area. The project, called EUROSUR, is part of a surveillance program costing $410 million designed to uplift the border security conditions of the EU countries, particularly those beside the Mediterranean [...]

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Cyprus has always been criticized by other countries and human rights groups of incompetently handling its immigrations issue, particularly its immigrants. But now, in the light of new but ironic events, the country is to deal with two of the key issues, which have the European countries preoccupied, of creation of reforms to the system [...]

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Why Lithuania for Business Immigration?

In Lithuania, a businessperson who starts a company with a minimum capital share value of €4000 is eligible to apply for Lithuania’s resident permit.  The individual then deposit €12000 in the company’s bank account and maintain the control of the investment all the time. The total investment of €16000 is much lower than what is [...]

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EU Agrees Over Suspending Visa Free Borders

European Union Home Affairs Ministers have agreed to a proposed change that would allow the 26 member states of the Schengen Area to suspend the visa free borders and restore the normal border controls for up to two years to combat the large influx of illegal migrants. The decision to restore internal border checks will base on [...]

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Lithuania and Spain has entered into a bilateral agreement enabling each other for the issuance of Schengen visas to third country nationals effective from June 1, 2012. The agreement is to facilitate the travelers in the countries where Lithuania does not have any embassy to issue required entry visas for Lithuania. Lithuania will represent Spain [...]

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Czech Foreign Minister has termed Swiss government’s recent decision to restrict the annual number of people from East European Countries to get residence permit ‘a clear discrimination’. Switzerland is a signatory of Schengen area system for free travel and has agreement with European Union states on free movement of member state residents within the Schengen [...]

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France Threatens to Pull out of Schengen Accord

France has threatened to suspend its participation in the Shengen agreement unless the member states take stern action to curb the illegal immigration. The French President Sarkozy while addressing a crowd of over 30,000 supporters just outside Paris said, “But if I note within the next 12 months that no serious progress has been made [...]

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