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The Population Commission of the United Nations concluded its session with a five-page report on international migration and immigration issues. The resolution (document E/CN.9/2007/L.5) was unanimously adopted and the report transmitted to the UN Council.
An exemption for requiring a work permit for post-graduate doctors and dentists working in the UK was eliminated on 3 April 2006 in many cases. Only those who originally qualified in the UK can remain under the postgraduate training scheme. Others will need to come under the work permit or HSMP scheme. The original announcement was made by the Department of Health on 07 March of this year, but the controversy continues.
The Russians are already doing it. The Belgians are already doing it. The Americans are doing it and are planning to vastly increase their activity by this method.
Now the European Commission (EC) is planning to do it.
Border control is becoming a very serious concern in all western economies these days. There are many reasons, and some controversy as to how and why. But, there is little doubt that increased border security between countries and regions is part of the reality of the 21st Century.
The government has reached the limit on H-1B visas (the "high-tech worker visa") for 2007, which begins 01 October, 2006.
The leed from the official press release reads "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced [01 June, 2006] that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007)."
Residing in the U.S. (or any country) illegally can create quite a number of problems. One that has recently come to be noticed is that sometimes younger people who perform well in school actually, well, perform too well.
They are usually the children of foreign-born parents who came into the country with less than proper paperwork. There are many reasons and methods, but people should seriously consider the consequences of entry by illegal methods.
Many families in the US have decided to birth their children at home in recent years. Conventional hospital births have become expensive with dramatically rising medical costs in the US and have contributed to the trend.
However, many people are finding that hospital births are not necessarily much safer than home births. With information available today and people generally being more educated, much of the risk of home births traditionally associated with the practice has been reduced.