Video News

This week`s video news looks at how UK employers believe that engineering shortages and skills deficiencies are costing them money, Australia faces an acute shortage of project management skills by the year 2020, studies show that foreign trained immigrants to Quebec, Canada are able to find employment.

This week`s video news looks at how Britain needs to attract more foreign science talent in order to remain competitive, Australia announces 16 new occupations have been added to its Migration Occupations in Demand List, or MODL, Australian towns hold meetings with overseas students, migrants and local business people to explain the range of visas and the processes involved to employ foreign labour, the Irish government and trade unions come up with various proposals to improve the pay and conditions for foreign nannies and other domestic staff in Ireland.

This week`s video news presents a reminder of the upcoming deadline for applying for UK permanent residence, looks at the US` nursing shortage, Britain to invest in skills training, Australian businessmen attend a trade mission in India to search for skilled labor, the shortage of miners in Australia.

This week`s video news presents a summary of the changes to the UK immigration system to take place in mid-2007, Bill Gates lobbies for more H1B visas in the US for technical workers, some in Scotland are pushing for an Australian-style immigration system.

This week`s video news presents an overview of the changes announced to the UK`s immigration system, Australia`s desperate need for skilled workers in Canberra, skilled British workers attend a New Zealand expo about immigration to New Zealand, Pakistan establishes a new faster immigration system for foreign business travellers in its major airports.

This week`s video news presents the five-tiered system of immigration that has been proposed by the UK, nearly 350,000 jobseekers mainly from Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia have come to work in Britain since the EU`s enlargement in 2004, a look at the US nursing shortage, New Zealand Department of Labor announces it will start to actively seek foreign skilled labor interested in immigrating to New Zealand.