Canadian immigration announces new and quicker 'Express Entry' system
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18:29 15/04/2014
Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander has announced that Canada will introduce its new 'active recruitment' immigration system in January 2015. It will be known as 'Express Entry' and will be...
UK's Labour Party 'would remove students from immigration figures'
11:42 14/04/2014
The UK's shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has called on the Coalition government to immediately remove students from the official migration statistics. Ms Cooper said that including all migrants...
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...
Senior US Republican says illegal immigration can be 'an act of love'
19:33 11/04/2014
Jeb Bush, the brother of George W Bush, who is seen as a frontrunner to be the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2016, has called on the Republicans to abandon their 'harsh political...
UK immigration statistics underestimated total by 350,000 in a decade
19:25 11/04/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics says that it underestimated the true extent of immigration from Eastern Europe between 2001 and 2011 by about 350,000. It says that the error occurred because...
UK seeks to deter EU immigration with benefit changes
11:32 10/04/2014
The British government has announced that, from July, immigrants from the EU will not be able to claim child benefit for their first three months in the country. In addition, unemployed EU immigrants...
