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By Sanwar Ali

Despite Donald Trump wanting to end the Green Card Lottery it continues, with the entry period this year from 2 October 2019 Noon EDT to 5 November 2019 Noon EDT.  If you are one of the lucky few that are selected it is an easy way to gain an immigrant visa for you and your family.   55,000 diversity visas are available and additional visas are available for family members.  Please note that you should list you

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The changes to the Tier 2 Sponsor Licence and Tier 2 visa scheme should benefit many employers and UK visa migrants.  The expensive and bureaucratic and unjust system will become a little bit easier. 

By Sanwar Ali

We are covering the following important US visa related news in this report:

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There have been numerous allegations that UK Visa at the Home Office and organisations associated with them engage in discriminatory practices including institutional racism.  The situation at the Home Office is so bad that many Home Office staff say that there is discrimination.  According to a recent report apparently a fifth of UK Border Force st

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The expansion of the UK Tier 2 visa shortage occupation list will certainly help employers.  However, this falls short of desperately needed wider reforms and does not meet the needs of Brexit (if it ever happens).

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Indian, or perhaps we should call them Bangladeshi restaurants in most cases, have had huge problems employing chefs from overseas.  It is expensive and difficult to employ chefs under the Tier 2 Sponsor Licence and Tier 2 visa scheme.  Probably most restaurants have a takeaway service which is not allowed in the Tier 2 Shortage Occupation List, and so means that they are unable to come under the Tier 2 visa scheme.  If this new