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The Immigration and Nationality Directorate plans to release new rules for people wishing to make the United Kingdom their home. The new rules will require applicants to show that they have a sufficient knowledge of language and life in the UK in order to qualify for settlement.

Indian steel tycoon Laskhmi Mittal and Russian oil baron Leonard Blavatnik are the new boys on the block at London's Kensington Palace Gardens, a street with houses so lavish it's known as billionaires' row.

Farther west in the suburb of Ealing, store fronts boast signs offering Polish delicacies to cater to an influx of less wealthy, but no less driven immigrants.

Come New Year's, Big Ben may be ringing in a new age of dominance for the capital of the United Kingdom.

A western Queensland meat exporter says the Australian industry is being "hamstrung" by an inability to employ skilled migrants in the sector.

Western Exporters at Charleville sells goat meat to more than 30 nations, but says it is still unable to hire migrants to work at its facility.

Managing director Neil Duncan says beef abattoirs are also feeling the pinch, and the Department of Immigration is not helping.

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All travelers to New Zealand could soon be subjected to American-style requirements to supply biometric data upon their arrival under changes to New Zealand's immigration laws.

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Late in the evening of 30 November, more than 30,000 asylum-seekers were granted general amnesty by the recently elected Dutch parliament, according to recent news reports.

Seventy-five Dutch lawmakers voted in favor of the motion, while 74 MPs voted against it.

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Job centers should be set up in Africa with "work mobility" packages for would-be immigrants, the European Commission said yesterday, as it unveiled radical plans to try to manage the flow of migration into the EU.