Europe eases Algeria visa rules
Comments (0)
14:50 14/12/2006
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that visa procedures for Algerians will be speeded up in 15 European countries. Mr Sarkozy, seen as a front-runner for the right-centre party in...
EU negotiating simpler visa deals with Western Balkan countries
10:55 08/12/2006
The European Union has agreed to negotiate agreements with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia making it much easier and cheaper for their nationals to obtain visas to...
Wage increases impact highly skilled 457 visa program in Australia
16:17 16/11/2006
In a slight twist on an old theme, significant wage gains now mean less. After a 45% surge in skilled workers coming to Australia in 2004-05, the rate of growth in the first three months of this...
US Foreign Service officer arrested in bribes-for-visas scandal
14:19 31/08/2006
United States Foreign Service officer Michael O'Keefe was charged on Friday with accepting trips with exotic dancers, jewelry and entertainment in exchange for issuing visas to 21 people linked to an...
Foreign students to the US skip out on J-1 visas, become national criminals
12:30 10/08/2006
In a cautionary tale for all immigrants, eleven students acquired expensive and difficult to obtain U.S. student visas , then didn't show up for the school that accepted them. Within days they became...
Update on UK visa offices, Cyprus, Lebanon and around the globe
9:47 24/07/2006
Persons should be aware that due to the situation in Lebanon and Israel, the visa section of the British High Commission in Nicosia, Cyprus is closed, effective 20 July 2006. Applications for visas...
