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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a study indicating that foreign-born students are signing up for university studies in countries other than the United States. In 2004, 22% of university students in the U.S. were foreign-born, while 25% were foreign-born only two years before that.
The date when passports will be required for U.S. citizens flying or cruising to Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico has been extended by one week, to 08 January 2007. The earlier deadline for requiring passports for air and sea passage to those destinations from 31 December 2006 was changed to accommodate holiday travellers, according to U.S. State Department spokeswoman Laura Tischler.
Important update (29 September 2006) :
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Original article:Popularly known as the United States Green Card Lottery, the DV-2008 Lottery will begin in two short weeks. Get prepared now!
The Australian Federal Government's plan to tighten citizenship eligibility would dismantle the nation's multicultural society and reintroduce an Australia of the 1950s, according to one of Australia's leading scholars on immigration.
Supporters of a plan to further restrict immigration in Switzerland, to be voted on in a referendum next weekend, cannot be accused of xenophobia, an expert says. Historian Thomas Gees says the debate on the issue is marked by fundamental differences between the left and right in Switzerland and fails to take account of European integration.
Children with at least one parent born outside the United States are more likely to study math and physical sciences in college, driven by the aim of securing a well-paid job, according to a study released last week.