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Questions on the nation's citizenship test will be revised to focus on basic civics and won't be the sort that would stir academic debate, the head of the federal citizenship office said Dec. 6.
Alfonso Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, said the agency plans to have a study done by next month on whether the test must be redesigned or merely revised. He said that although nothing is definite yet, "We are inclined to revise the current test, rather than totally redesign the test."
Indonesia hopes to began issuing the passports next year, Director-General of Immigration Iman Santoso told reporters at a meeting of Asia and European immigration officials on the tourist island of Bali.
The United States and Canada have already introduced such passports, which have an embedded microchip that stores a digital photo of the holder's face and their fingerprints.
The French government has modified certain aspects of its immigration policy after riots in poor suburbs earlier this month - even though most of the rioters were born in France.
Under pressure from right-wingers in his own party, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced plans to restrict the re-unification of immigrant families and to impose tighter selection rules on foreign students from outside the EU.
In an exclusive guest editorial for Expatica, MEP Cem Oezdemir, who was the first German of Turkish descent elected to the Bundestag, looks at the challenges Germany's new government will face integrating its immigrant communities.
The EU citizens are increasingly concerned about immigrations, because immigrants are often perceived as competitors in the labour market as well as causing social insecurity, disorder and religious and cultural instability.
This information emerges from the fifth report on Europe and immigration presented Nov. 21 in Venice by the 'Fondazione Nord Est'.
"Now more than ever, immigration is a European issue because it concerns all European countries," said Ilvo Diamanti, who conducted the research along with Fabio Bordignon.
Spain posted its largest population increase ever last year, gaining more than 900,000 residents in a surge due almost exclusively to immigration, the Spanish government said. Spain granted amnesty to 700,000 illegal immigrants in 2005.The 2.1% rate of growth in the population is included in a report presented yesterday to the government by the National Statistics Institute. It said Spain's population as of January stood at 44.1 million.