From April 2019 Japan is expecting to welcome between 260,000 and 340,000 foreign workers in the next five years through an envisioned immigration control law revision. This is due to the fact Japan are aiming to deal with their country's labour crunch, government sources have said. The numbers of workers are a rough estimate, opposition parties [...]
Australia's government has announced today that they have planned to extend working holiday visas to allow young travellers (backpackers) to stay for three years in order to meet a shortage of farm labourers. The young travellers who are on 'backpacker's visa' will be able to remain in Australia for up to three years providing they spend [...]
The Australian government has announced a new proposal in which new migrants may be forced to live outside Sydney and Melbourne. This policy has been created in order to ease congestion in Australia's two biggest cities while boosting the population in the regional areas, Population Minister Alan Tudge said on Tuesday. The proposal is part of “a [...]
The mayor of Quebec City, Canada has released a new list of priorities and one of the most urgent is the need to increase immigration as there is over 17,000 vacancies to fill. Immigration topped Mayor Régis Labeaume’s said “This dramatic lack of manpower is the most dangerous problem and can jeopardize our economic future,” Labeaume said. “It [...]
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 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 [...]
In a bid to improve the shortage of labour workers Tokyo has opened its arms to greet low skilled foreign workers. Previously and more commonly Japan has been known to only accept highly skilled foreign workers but has now changed their mind as the ageing population has had an effect on the labour workforce. In June [...]
