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The Indian Parliament has recently passed a Bill granting the possibility ofdual citizenship to individuals of Indian origin. The Citizenship Bill(Amended) was passed, however, the specific regulations and requirements arestill being decided.
The Bill lays out the definition of an "overseas citizen of India" asfollows:
In future, non-EU immigrants residing in Belgium will be granted the right to take up posts in the Flemish civil service on permanent contracts.
The Flemish government has today made a proposal to offer immigrants from outside the European Union a so-called 'job for life' at the local and regional levels in welfare service administrative departments in the northern state of Flanders.
The new regulations were proposed by Flemish Interior Minister Paul Van Grembergen. At present, the Belgian Constitution states that only Belgian citizens are allowed to hold jobs in the civil service.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) announced today that over 20,000 new jobs were created in Australia in November of this year, which means that the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.6%, a 14-year low.
Statistics show that full-time staff positions increased by as much as 27,900 positions but that part-time jobs fell, keeping the total employment opportunities down to 20,700.
In spite of market predictions, which expected only an increase of 10,000 jobs, the past few months have seen the lowest jobless rate in Australia since December 1989.
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Denis Coderre, announced on December 3rd that various amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) would come into effect today. The amendments, which included changes to the Skilled Worker and other economic class permanent residency applications, were originally proposed on 18 September 2003.
Beginning with summer 2004, overseas students who have graduated from a UK institution with a degree in science and/or technology will be granted permission to work in the UK for 12 months immediately following graduation. These graduating students will be given 12 months' leave to remain without a work permit and with no restriction on employment.
More information will become available later this year.
The port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is trying to prevent underpriveleged immigrants from moving to the city by refusing public housing to anyone who does not earn a salary of at least twenty percent above the minimum income level. In addition to this, Rotterdam City Council aims to put a cap on asylum seekers who wish to become residents of Rotterdam.