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The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), released its figures for UK immigration for 2004. The statistics revealed that net immigration to Britain rose by nearly 50% on the previous year.
The data released April 18, showed this rise in UK immigration was also matched by the highest recorded departure of British nationals leaving for a new life overseas. The number of departing UK citizens is estimated to be in the vicinity of 120,000.
Immigrants to Spain are emerging as a powerful new force in the Spanish economy, raising demand for housing, which in turn is sustaining the country's construction boom.
Spain's rising divorce rate is the catalyst for the increased demand for housing, with more than one in five marriages now ending in separation or divorce. According to real estate studies, the divorce rate is generating an additional 140,000 homes being built each year.
A special inquiry is investigating the UK government funded English courses for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), to find why it is struggling to deliver effective courses for immigrants to the UK.
The inquiry led by the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), will try and determine why the system is not coping with a huge increase in demand, a continuing teacher shortage and qualifications that do not match learners' needs.
US resort towns like Aspen, Colorado and Key West, Fla., have become reliant on hundreds of foreign workers who come to the US legally on short-term work visas. They take jobs scanning lift tickets and staffing checkout lines. They are often college students who come into town for a little work, and maybe a little fun, for a season. But these workers are often from the Southern Hemisphere - Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa - whose summer breaks coincide with Colorado's ski season.
European immigration experts are saying the EU should adopt immigration laws similar to Australia's, New Zealand's and Canada's where selective skilled immigration has been introduced.
The experts told the German newspaper Deutsche Welle, the European Union needs to adopt a new policy on immigration that would "selectively" open borders to deal with the influx of immigrants.
The paper says that many EU politicians believe that the 64 million people from poorer, non-EU countries who have found a home in the EU are sufficient.
To ease the nursing shortage in the US, New York's St John's Riverside Hospital, which operates a nursing school and supplies nurses to 100 hospitals, has arranged for Korean nurses to come to the US for a one and a half year internship that leads to full time employment.
As many as 10,000 nurses could be leaving South Korea to work in the US over the next 5 years. The US Department of Health and Human Services has predicted that in the year 2020, there will be a shortage of 800,000 nurses in the US.