Singapore Prime Minister promotes immigration as birth rate drops
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15:58 22/08/2006
• Watch This Video Singapore will promote immigration to increase its population as the island nation's birth rate continues to decline, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a speech recently. In...
Working in the UK releases preliminary service statistics
10:54 22/08/2006
• Watch This Video The British governments official work permit and immigration portal, Working in the UK, has released preliminary data collected on service standards in processing applications...
Immigration fails to stem European population loss
10:00 21/08/2006
• Watch This Video Three million people a year migrate from developing countries to industrialized nations, a population research group said today as it announced its annual findings. Almost half of...
US electronic passport program takes effect
16:05 18/08/2006
• Watch This Video This week the United States began issuing passports embedded with 'smart chips;' small memory chips that can be read with computer scanners that have information about the person...
South African nurses face tough new UK restrictions
16:59 17/08/2006
Thousands of South African nurses working in the UK could be forced to return home because of new immigration rules introduced by the British Government recently. Under the new regime, employers in...
EU short of skilled labor
15:45 17/08/2006
• Watch This Video With almost 5 million people out of work, Germany's labor market might seem a manager's dream when it comes to filling jobs - easy pickings from a sea of desperate applicants. Not...