A conservative think tank has said that the government should make plans to expand the number of countries whose citizens are eligible to apply for a working holiday visa to the UK. Current the UK offers a tier-5 youth mobility visa which is available for two years for people afed 18-30 to live, work and [...]
The German government wrote up a draft for immigration regulations on 17th of August. The new law is to reform the current, unwieldy immigration law of 2004 and to finally regulate labour market integration beyond asylum policy. Refugees are briefly mentioned in the draft whilst the focus keyword seems to be the skilled workers. Germany with [...]
A government report has warned that Ireland could see a significant rise of a number of illegal asylum seekers and immigrants. A National Risk Assessment was carried out recently and has found that Ireland is at risk of increased illegal movement as Brexit gets introduced to the UK. “Brexit may give rise to [...]
Research has found that since late March 2018 over 400,000 citizens have left Ukraine in search of a better life abroad. A little over a quarter of Ukrainians have left the country to wait out hard times while they find work temporarily abroad, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of [...]
A recent new study has found that as the British government has put more control on the immigration system, it has driven up the number of people entering the UK illegally. While the the visa restrictions have cut overall migration as the government planned, academics said they can be "ineffective and counterproductive" because they force more people to [...]
Source: AAP Malcolm Turnbull, the government's minister has expressed concern that many people are granted permanent residency before they even step foot into the country so therefore wants to further tighten the visas. Last year Australia accepted around 162,000 permanent migrants last year which is well below they annual cap of [...]
A Drop in H-2B Visas A Trump limits the number of H-2B visas companies with high demand and who are dependant on foreign seasonal workers are beginning to suffer. Despite Donald Trump's promise to have the back of smaller businesses, many small American companies have been denied visas to bring in foreign workers this year. Across [...]
Since 2014 a British national has been fighting her case in court for Hong Kong to accept her spousal visa, her spouse is also a British national working in Hong Kong. In the first week of July Hong Kong's highest court ordered immigration officials to grant spousal visas to same sex expatriate couples. The couple [...]
If you're a foreign worker and you've worked in Australia in the last ten years on a working holiday visa you could be in for a tax refund. Tax refund specialists in Australia are calling up anyone who worked in Australia in the last the years to check their filing obligations [...]
Canada More Accepting? Whilst the USA crack down on immigration following President Trump's new immigration policies, a new light is being shed on the neighbouring country Canada. Canada has always been seen as the immigration friendly nation with more then 80,000 immigrants being recruited for jobs in the past five years alone. Canada is [...]
