India pushes for visa-free travel to promote tourism
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14:04 01/11/2011
During an annual tourism conference, Indian Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai urged other countries to make their visa regulations more tourist-friendly. The three day annual conference of tourism...
Australia cracking down on student visa violations
9:38 01/11/2011
Australian immigration authorities have cancelled 15,066 student visas in the past year; This is due to students violating the terms of their visa - an increase of 37 percent from 2009. The crackdown...
Dow Chemical CEO says Australian manufacturing sector needs immigration
13:59 09/10/2011
Dow Chemical CEO Andew Liveris says that Australia's manufacturing sector needs more highly skilled migrants; There will need to be changes to the Australian immigration rules to enable more skilled...
Writers, artists decry UK immigration rules
12:53 28/06/2011
Writers and artists are banding together to criticise changes to the UK points based immigration scheme which make it more difficult for writers, composers, and artists from outside the EU to come to...
Irish immigration to Canada increasing
17:39 03/03/2011
Canada is seeing an increasing number of Irish immigrant arrivals as Ireland continues to experience an economic downturn. A recent report by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)...
Australian net immigration reductions
15:23 07/12/2010
Australia's rate of net immigration continues to fall as more people leave Australia and fewer people arrive. The number of permanent and long-term arrivals still outnumbers departures. However...