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The U.S. State Department has announced that registration for the 2007 Diversity Visa Lottery , also know as the Green Card Lottery, will begin at noon local time on October 5, 2005. Persons seeking to enter the lottery program must register online through the designated Internet website during the registration period. The website for registering for the 2007 DV Lottery, www.dvlottery.state.gov , will be available from noon October 5, 2005 through noon December 4, 2005. Find out if you qualify for the U.S. Green Card Lottery right away by going to the Do I Qualify page .

Six new schemes aimed...

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A new online service from the New Zealand Government hopes to connect New Zealand employers with skilled workers looking for jobs in New Zealand. The service, entitled NetworkZ Online, is expected to begin working in Nov. 2005. NetworkZ Online will provide a network of job vacancies for:

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Workpermit.com is pleased to bring you our latest immigration newsletter. Click on the link in the box to view the video version. We also have an archive of all of our newsletters and video newsletters online for your convenience.

Foreign students are attending Canadian universities in record numbers , more than doubling their enrolment in the last decade, says a new report. Statistics Canada says foreign students accounted for 70,000 students, or about 7 percent of overall enrolment in 2003-4. That's an almost 17 percent increase over the previous year. About half of all international students come from Asia.

The UK has released a managed migration consultation document, the full text of which is available on our website. The new immigration scheme, to be introduced next spring, includes a five-tier point system for migrants, creating easy access and full residence rights for...

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New figures show that about 111,000 workers arrived legally to work in the UK from the new member countries of the European Union in the past year. That figure is up from 20,000, the number that arrived before EU enlargement in May 2004. News reports say that the new immigrants are transforming parts of London into Slavic and Baltic enclaves where pickles and Polish beer are stacked in delicatessens and Polish can be heard on the streets almost as often as English. The eight new EU countries now send as many workers as Asia and the Middle East combined....