COMMENT - Comprehensive immigration reform in US may be defeated by House Republicans
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10:21 31/05/2013
By Alex Owen Washington commentators are predicting that President Obama's promise to introduce sweeping immigration reform in his second term may be defeated by Republican members of Congress...
Advisor to Australian immigration minister says 457 visa abuse is 'limited'
10:43 30/05/2013
Michael Easson, an immigration advisor to the Australian government has said that claims by government ministers that there is widespread abuse of the Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa (Subclass 457),...
Australian parliament introduces law allowing immigrants to be 'processed offshore'
12:03 29/05/2013
The Australian Senate has voted for an amendment which would allow the authorities to take asylum seekers who land on the Australian mainland and hold them in offshore processing camps on Nauru and...
UK announces fall in net immigration figure
17:57 28/05/2013
The latest figures show that there has been a significant drop in the net level of immigration into the UK. The net immigration figure is reached by calculating the number of immigrants over a given...
US immigration bill is approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
9:07 28/05/2013
Comprehensive immigration reform came a step closer for the US on Tuesday when the US Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 in favour of a bill that would radically alter almost every...
UK's doctors and dentists criticise government's immigration reform plans
12:15 23/05/2013
The British Dental Association has joined the Royal College of GPs in expressing concern about the UK government's proposed immigration reforms. On May 8th 2013, the UK's Coalition government...
