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New UK citizenship test to start on 1 Nov.

11:51 14/10/2005
When were all 18-year-olds given the right to vote in the UK ? In which order in the calendar do the four UK national saints' days fall? Now dozens of immigrants keen to make the UK their permanent...

Elderly, disabled may have trouble getting US citizenship

19:10 26/09/2005
Elderly and disabled immigrants are suffering hardships because of restrictions on citizenship applications by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to some US agencies that aid...

Automatic citizenship in France questioned

16:50 19/09/2005
France's minister for overseas affairs provoked outrage on 17 September by saying illegal immigrants were giving birth on French territory to ensure their children had French nationality. By law, a...

Man who lived in Kenya airport gets UK citizenship

15:39 04/07/2005
A man who has lived for more than a year at Nairobi's international airport to protest being denied entry to Britain has finally been granted U.K. citizenship and plans to fly there within days. In a...

Changes to UK immigration laws to affect students, workers

11:38 16/05/2005
Just a week after being reelected, Tony Blair revealed that changes to the government's immigration laws would affect foreign workers and overseas students . Foreign students overstaying their visas...

German immigration law targets skilled workers

16:01 13/01/2005
New rules in Germany effective from January 1 will make entering andstaying in Germany easier for skilled migrants, while keeping tightrestrictions on unskilled immigration, the broadcaster Deutsche...

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