The UK's new Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill that is being presented to the House of Lords, could see International students lose their right to appeal against decisions about their right to stay in the UK.
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One in 10 workers in the UK was born abroad, according to research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
More than a third of working-age immigrants arrived in the UK during the past decade, according to its Immigrants in the British Labour Market report.
The research looked at data from 1979 to 2004 and analysed the type of work immigrants were doing and how easy it was for them to find employment. More than 40% of migrant workers were found to live in London.
Immigration to the US - both legal and illegal - continues to boom as Congress grapples with how to better control America's borders.
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 7.9 million people moved to the United States in the past five years, the highest five-year period of immigration on record.
The report, released Dec. 12, comes as the House prepares to take up a bill to stop illegal immigration by increasing border security and requiring workplace enforcement of immigration laws.
An immigration policy that gives Scotland a competitive advantage in attracting immigrants is to be undermined by a similar scheme introduced across the UK.
A version of the Fresh Talent Initiative, which allows foreign graduates to live and work in Scotland for two years, will be launhced in England. The move was announced last week by Chancellor Gordon Brown and follows complaints by universities in England that the Scotland-only programme is discriminatory.
There are concerns young Tasmanians are shunning traineeships and apprenticeships because they are not deemed to have the status of a university education. Tasmania is an Australian island located 240 km (150 miles) south of the eastern portion of Australia.A leading training organisation has called for better marketing to entice people back into vocation-based training.
Northern Group Training cannot find enough Tasmanians to fill its vocational courses and currently has 46 vacancies across the state.
New figures show the jobs market in Australia continues to strengthen.
The Seek Employment Index shows an 11 percent increase in the number of job ads posted during the month of November - a 32 percent rise on the same period last year.
Seek director Andrew Basset hopes the trend will continue into the new year.
"We believe so - it's hard to have visibility into the new year but usually at this time, things slow down in terms of job ads," he said.