The US Congress will begin immigration reform, again
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19:32 26/12/2006
• Watch This Video Democratic lawmakers and their Republican allies are working on measures to draft a bipartisan immigration reform bill for the United States . The Congress has generally fallen...
Record illegal immigrant landing sparks debate in Italy
13:25 26/12/2006
Nearly 650 illegal immigrants crammed in a 25-meter, old and leaky fishing boat, reaching the Italian island of Sicily on 19 December and sparking criticisms of the center-left government's...
US Senator highlights concerns over H-1B visas
18:51 22/12/2006
U.S. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has written a letter to Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao about her concern that employers were taking advantage of lax safeguards in the H-1B process...
Santa's immigration status questioned in the US
12:18 22/12/2006
• Watch This Video Santa isn't welcome in Hazleton because he's an illegal immigrant just like all the others the small Pennsylvania town in the United States is trying to get rid of - or so someone...
Immigration to Sweden reaches new record
13:18 21/12/2006
Sweden's statistics office reported on 19 December that immigration to Sweden is expected to reach a record high this year, in part due to a temporary easing of asylum rules. Preliminary data showed...
UK may compel foreigners to register identity data by 2008
19:25 20/12/2006
The UK government may force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric data by 2008, aiming to curb illegal immigration and identity fraud costing £1.7 billion ($3.3 billion) a...
