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Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister in charge of immigration, will unveil proposals to create a new regional director's job for Scotland.
Scotland will have its own regional director for immigration and the new post will deal specifically with the improved treatment of immigrants and refugees.
A separate inspection and complaints service will also be set up, but the main task will be to deal with asylum seekers and refugees seeking to immigrate to Scotland.
The UK government flag ship for job skills training New Deal, is to be expanded to improve workers skills. The government wants to increase the skills scheme to be more flexible.
Gordon Brown from New Deal, told MP's that the UK economy by the year 2020 will have 14 million skilled jobs in the country.
Currently there are 3.4 million unskilled positions of employment in the UK, and Brown believes the number of unskilled labour by 2020 could drop to only 300,000 positions.
The issue of clamping down on illegal immigration has been raised by one the UK's most senior police officers, Chris Fox outgoing president of the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Different agencies have different objectives, and Fox believes that UK police forces should unify with government branches to make it even harder for illegal immigrants, and criminal elements to cross UK borders.
Ministers from six European Union members met in Heiligendamm a town in north-east Germany to discuss the possible introduction of an "integration contract" for immigrants to the EU.
In the contract would be obligations immigrants would need to respect concerning EU values. The obligations in the contract would be a pre-requisite for residency.
Skilled migration to Australia is set to continue as ministers and heads of business travel to India to recruit skilled labour to fill Australia's growing labour market shortage.
Twenty Australian businessmen are currently accompanying the Australian Prime Minister John Howard on a three day trade mission to India. The main objective of the visit is to entice skilled labour specialists to immigrate to Australia through its Skill Stream Migration Program.
New Zealand's Seasonal Work Permit Pilot has been extended till September, said David Cunliffe Minister of Immigration. The minister wants more overseas workers to meet the seasonal labour demands in the horticulture and viniculture industries.
These industries have informed the government of New Zealand that this years season will go on for longer than originally expected and additional labour will be needed.