Australia announces all asylum seekers will be transported to PNG
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16:34 24/07/2013
The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that, from now on, all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat will be sent to the processing centre on the island of Manus, which is part...
Senior civil servant says UK immigration and visa services face cuts
9:07 02/07/2013
One of the UK's most senior civil servants, Mark Sedwill, gave evidence to an influential committee of MPs this month about the future of the UK's immigration services. Mr Sedwill told the Home...
Australian immigration minister introduces legislation to help win The Ashes
11:27 06/06/2013
Australia has a new cricketing hero; Australian immigration minister Brendan O'Connor. The Australian team needed help and Mr O'Connor has leapt to the rescue. He will not, sadly, be playing himself...
MPs quiz civil servants about UK immigration and visa services
13:25 03/04/2013
On Tuesday 26th March 2013, a committee of MPs interviewed two senior civil servants about the way the UK's immigration services will be run in future. The interview came just minutes after the Home...
Half a million people sought asylum in developed world in 2012 says UN
9:20 25/03/2013
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued a report which says that 479,300 people from the developing world sought asylum in the developed world in 2012. The number is the...
UK immigration is driving students away, says former ambassador
16:19 05/02/2013
Sir Christopher Meyer, the UK's ambassador to Washington between 1997 and 2003, has told UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph that the UK Border Agency is driving international students away from the UK...
