The Government of Canada has launched a new programme entitled Internationally Trained Workers Initiative. It is hoped that the project will improve the integration of immigrants and internationally trained Canadians into the work force.
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A new rule published by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the Federal Register on April 25, 2005 classifies some scientists from the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and the Baltic States as employment-based immigrants.
As immigration has become a hot topic in the UK, here are some key claims and some facts drawn from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the UK Labour Force Survey, and the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. Compiled by The Scotsman.
CLAIM: Immigration into Britain has risen.
True. There were about 60,000 economic migrants a year in the early 1980s, and there are now about 150,000 a year. Immigrants were 7 per cent of the UK workforce in 1984 - that had risen to 10.5 per cent last year.
Universities in the UK have reacted with anger to the government's attempt to raise overseas student visa prices during the election.
Universities UK fears the new increase will make it harder for institutions to recruit overseas. A previous Home Office decision already bumped up charges to renew student visas.
Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, has protested the Home Office's proposed increase during the election when government departments are supposed to be in "purdah" and not make policy announcements.
A recent study finds that immigrants in Germany are not harming the economy, but often become self employed and currently employ more than one million people, Deutsche Welle reports.
A new study called "The Importance of the Ethnic Economy in Germany," commissioned by the German Economics Ministry, has found that since 1990, the number of immigrants who have been taking the plunge into self-employment has risen by 60 percent.
Citizens of Bahrain, Oman and Qatar wanting to visit Australia can now apply for a tourist visa using the online eVisa system, the Australian government reported on 21 April.