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Points based system not to affect UK IT immigration

12:15 27/03/2006
Overseas IT specialists migrating to the UK will most likely to be awarded the highest status in the UK Home Office's points-based immigration system. The points ranking system for immigrants wishing...

Scotland to have regional director for immigration

11:04 27/03/2006
Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister in charge of immigration, will unveil proposals to create a new regional director's job for Scotland. Scotland will have its own regional director for...

Police chief wants new force to tackle UK illegal immigration

9:33 27/03/2006
The issue of clamping down on illegal immigration has been raised by one the UK's most senior police officers, Chris Fox outgoing president of the Association of Chief Police Officers. Different...

US H-1B visa race set for April 1

19:28 23/03/2006
US Citizenship and Immigration services will begin accepting petitions for H-1B visas for workers for the US fiscal year beginning 2007 on the first of April. The visas are sure to be snapped up...

Germany holds off immigrant workers from the East

9:43 22/03/2006
Germany plans to keep its current ban on foreign workers from new European Union states entering its labour market till 2009, vice-chancellor and labour minister Franz Muentefeing told Passaver Neve...

Bill Gates lobbies again for more US H1B visas

13:46 20/03/2006
Lobbying for an increase in the number of H-1B visas , Microsoft chief Bill Gates has called high-skilled immigration the "number one thing" that the software giant needs. He called it "ironic" that...

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