Immigration news

The new First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS), Jill Biden, will monitor a US immigration task force that will be set up to reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border under Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy. The zero-tolerance US immigration policy was recently quashed by an executive order issued by President Biden.

 

NHS leaders have warned that post-Brexit UK immigration rules will make visas difficult to access for care workers, sparking a potential shortage of staff. The NHS Confederation has urged government ministers to show ‘flexibility and pragmatism’ across the new system to prevent the flow of international care workers from drying up.

 

In his effort to reverse a series of controversial immigration policies implemented by Donald Trump, new US President Joe Biden has now set his sights on rescinding the former President’s US work visa ban. Trump imposed the ban amid the coronavirus pandemic saying that it was ‘necessary to protect American workers.’

 

Former acting secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Chad Wolf, claims that Joe Biden’s actions on US immigration are ‘against the law’. During an interview with Fox News, Wolf, whose own appointment as acting secretary of the DHS was ruled unlawful, described Biden’s deportation moratorium in particular ‘very concerning’.

 

A series of new surveys conducted by educations.com has revealed that Canada and the UK have moved ahead of the US as preferred international destinations for study among foreign students. Meanwhile, international students who had planned to study in Australia, have now switched to British or Canadian universities.

 

Joe Biden’s immediate efforts to reverse Donald Trump’s hardline US immigration policies have been hit and miss in the first week of his presidency. While his executive order to revoke Trump’s zero tolerance policy, responsible for the separation of thousands of families at the US-Mexico border, Biden’s 100-day deportation pause has been blocked by a federal court.