Immigration news

US President, Joe Biden, has unveiled a new US immigration measure that will allow immigrants who served in the American army, and were later deported, to return to the US legally. 

 

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, had ordered US immigration agencies to create a ‘rigorous, systematic approach’ to review the cases of immigrants whose deportations had ‘failed to live up to America’s highest values’.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reportedly ‘running at a revenue loss’, according to the Homeland Security Ombudsman. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, USCIS, which is funded entirely by US visa and immigration application fees, was on the brink of collapse and sought a billion dollar bailout from the Trump government.

 

Workpermit.com recently reported that asylum seekers heading to Britain could be sent to offshore UK immigration centres as far away as Africa for processing. However, the controversial plans are set to face legal challenges amid accusations that the Home Office is breaking international law, plus the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention.

 

Former US President, Donald Trump, visited the US-Mexico border recently and announced plans to finish his anti-immigrant border wall using private funds. Trump, who failed to complete his wall using federal funds, is seemingly attempting to rally his base at a time when he’s not been in the spotlight and is unable to use social media due to a series of bans.

 

The new UK post-study work visa, which was announced by Home Secretary Priti Patel last year, officially launched on 1 July 2021. The visa route is now open for applications, offering international students who graduate from UK universities the opportunity to apply for the right to remain in Britain for up to two years to find work.

 

Following a recent report published by Workpermit.com, in which the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) urged the government to relax post-Brexit UK immigration rules, respondents to a recent poll carried out by the Express have urged Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, not to ease the rules despite thousands of businesses suffering staff shortages.