60,000 asylum seekers have reached EU in 2014
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12:50 04/06/2014
The EU's border agency Frontex says that a record number of asylum seekers have entered the EU by sea and on foot in 2014. So far, Frontex estimates the total at about 60,000. The migrants have...
US immigration: Spouses of some H-1B visa holders can work
13:03 12/05/2014
Two senior officials in the Obama administration have announced proposals to allow the spouses of some H-1B visa holders to work while in the US. Currently, spouses of H-1B visa holders are only...
Polish MP lives the EU immigrant life in London
9:46 29/04/2014
Artur Debski, a Polish MP from the opposition Your Movement party, has spent two weeks living in London experiencing the life of a Polish migrant looking for work. Mr Debski intended to raise...
Demand for H-1B visas up by 40% in 2014, says US immigration
16:55 25/04/2014
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has revealed that it received 172,000 applications for H-1B visas in the first five working days of April this year, 40% more than over...
Australian immigration will extend Ukrainian visas
14:30 20/03/2014
The Australian immigration minister Julie Bishop has announced that Ukrainians in Australia will be able to extend their visas; the political instability in their home Country means that it may be...
Immigrant sells WhatsApp to Facebook for $19bn
12:03 24/02/2014
Jan Koum, a Ukrainian who settled in the US, has sold his WhatsApp mobile app to Facebook for $19bn. Mr Koum, 37, left Ukraine for the US when with his mother he was 16. His story is a classic 'rags-...
