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Citizens and residents of Poland migrating to Australia will have to settle their visa formalities in Berlin from now on, according to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Australia.
Poles should send their application forms, credit card payment authorities and supporting documents to the Visa Section of the Australia Embassy in Germany's capital Berlin. The new immigration procedures apply to 14 types of migration visas.
A new law approved by President Bush makes it tougher for U.S. employers to get L-1B visas for oversees workers, as announced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
A flood of applications for H-2B temporary worker visas will probably lead to the whole visa allocation of H-2B visas for fiscal year 2005 being used up in the next few months, according to figures released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
USCIS has revealed that as of December 8 2004, 61,747 H-2B applications had been made for fiscal 2005, which runs from October 1 2004 to September 30 2005. There is a statutory cap of 66,000 visas for fiscal 2005, and USCIS will probably need to approve 100,000 applications to fully utilize this number.
Canada and the U.S. will increase their cooperation on processing applications for asylum, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Cosmetic changes have been made to US Permanent Resident Cards, also known as "green cards", the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has announced.
The new cards have "Department of Homeland Security" written prominently on the back and the DHS seal on the front, as well as other new security features. USCIS has started mailing the cards to immigrants who have received approval to have their cards renewed or to have their status adjusted to lawful permanent resident. Cards already in circulation will remain in circulation until the expiry of their validity date or their recall by USCIS.
President Bush has signed into law changes affecting the non-immigrant visa categories H-1B and L as announced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).