Migrants looking elsewhere as US investor visas run out
Comments (0)
14:57 29/09/2014
The number of applicants for New Zealand investor visas is set to rise, at least partly due to the US running out of EB-5 investor visas. The US has run out of investor visas which are available to...
The Filipino emigrant workforce
19:21 26/09/2014
Beginning in the 1970s the Philippines has focused on exporting labor overseas. In the first years of this new policy the numbers were relatively small, in the tens of thousands, but this continually...
Lord Heseltine: Foreign students should be excluded from UK immigration cuts
11:36 24/09/2014
A former UK deputy Prime Minister has called for foreign students to be excluded from the UK government's immigration figures, explaining that students are 'not the sort of people causing the anxiety...
Infosys sued for favouring South Asian staff with H-1B visas over US employees
15:29 17/09/2014
The Indian outsourcing firm Infosys is being sued for discrimination in a US court. The case revolves around Infosys' use of H-1B 'specialty occupation' non-immigrant (temporary residence) visas...
Deputy PM: UK has scrapped plans to reduce immigration to 'tens of thousands'
11:26 17/09/2014
The UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, says that the UK coalition government has scrapped plans to reduce annual immigration to below 100,000 annually. Mr Clegg, the leader of the Liberal...
Afghan immigrants found inside shipping container in UK
16:21 10/09/2014
A group of 35 illegal immigrants were found inside a shipping container last month, at Tilbury Dock, Essex, in the UK after dock workers heard screaming and banging from inside. When the container...
