Australian immigration boom may have peaked
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10:48 16/05/2014
Australian immigration may have peaked, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Net inward migration in the year to March 2014 stood at 380,910. This is slightly...
Canada bars restaurants from Temporary Foreign Worker Program
11:40 09/05/2014
The Canadian employment minister Jason Kenney has barred Canadian restaurants from employing workers who wish to come to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) after numerous claims...
New Zealand immigration hits 11-year high
16:42 08/05/2014
Net immigration to New Zealand rose to 31,900 in the year to March 2014, the highest figure for eleven years and the second highest level ever. The highest number of immigrants were from the People's...
Canadian academic calls for end to Temporary Foreign Worker Program
13:58 06/05/2014
A Canadian academic has called on the federal government to close the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and, instead, to grant more permanent residence visas to international workers. Professor...
Demand for H-1B visas up by 40% in 2014, says US immigration
16:55 25/04/2014
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has revealed that it received 172,000 applications for H-1B visas in the first five working days of April this year, 40% more than over...
Lords denounce UK's 'overblown rhetoric' on immigration
11:11 14/04/2014
Yet another parliamentary committee has criticised the UK's Coalition government for its rhetoric on immigration. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee published a report on...
