News

Calais Migrants Mutilate Fingertips To Hide True Identity

Calais migrants mutilate fingertips to hide true identity By Peter Allen MAIL ONLINE Last updated at 11:03 AM on 22nd July 2009 Comments (61) Migrants massed in Calais in hopes of getting into Britain are mutilating their fingerprints so that … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

Five Migrant Reception Units On Cards

Five migrant reception units on cards Police set sights on clearing city squats eKathimerini.com July 22, 2009 Police officers oversee the evacuation of the last few migrants from the premises of the old Athens appeals court in the city center … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

Visa Crackdown Will Hit Numbers

Visa crackdown will hit numbers Bernard Lane The Australian July 22, 2009 THE education export industry has to find a new way to prosper now that the government has made it harder for would-be migrants to use study as a … Continue reading

Posted in Australian and Others, News

Cut Number Of Foreigners, 40% Of Eastern Germans Say In Poll

Cut Number of Foreigners, 40% of Eastern Germans Say in Poll By Patrick Donahue July 21 (Bloomberg) — The number of foreigners living in Germany is too high and should be cut, two-fifths of people living in former communist East … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

NZ Immigration Highest In More Than Two Years

N.Z. Immigration Is Highest in More Than Two Years (Update2) By Tracy Withers July 21 (Bloomberg) — New Zealands annual immigration growth accelerated to the highest level in more than two years in June, adding to signs that consumer spending … Continue reading

Posted in Australian and Others, News

Evans Vows To Tighten Study Rules

Evans vows to tighten study rules Matt Wade Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in New Delhi July 21, 2009 IMMIGRATION minister, Chris Evans, has begun a crucial visit to India with a frank admission that recent problems experienced by Indian students … Continue reading

Posted in Australian and Others, News

Brown Wins Authority To Curb Applications For UK Citizenship

Brown Wins Authority to Curb Applications for U.K. Citizenship By Reed V. Landberg July 21 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown won the authority to lengthen the period immigrants must live in the U.K. before they can apply for citizenship, … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Bogus College Crackdown Welcomed

Bogus college crackdown welcomed BBC News Page last updated at 10:25 GMT, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:25 UK Four bogus colleges in Scotland have been struck off a government register after an investigation into students obtaining fraudulent visas. They were … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Report Suggests Bogus Colleges Number Thousands

Report suggests bogus colleges number thousands By Jim Pickard The Financial Times Published: July 21 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 21 2009 03:00 Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have been allowed to come to the UK because of … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Calais Migrants Ambush Britons At Knifepoint In Terrifying ‘Highway Robberies’

Calais migrants ambush Britons at knifepoint in terrifying 'highway robberies' By James Slack and Ian Sparks Mail Online Last updated at 8:19 AM on 21st July 2009 Comments (134) Migrant gangs in Calais are targeting British holidaymakers in terrifying 'highway … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Arrests In Scam Marriage Inquiry

Arrests in scam marriage inquiry BBC News Page last updated at 14:11 GMT, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:11 UK Fourteen people thought to be part of an international marriage scam have been arrested hours before weddings due to take place … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Visas For Czechs Were Necessary

Canadian press: Visas for Czechs were necessary Prague Daily Monitor TK 20 July 2009 Ottawa, July 17 (CTK) – Canadian papers have commented on Canada's reimposition of visa requirements on Czech citizens this week in reaction to a rising number … Continue reading

Posted in News, News Articles Prior to 2011

Canada’s Refugee Problem Can Only Be Solved By A Multi-Partisan Effort

Canada's refugee problem can only be solved by a multi-partisan effort Time to stop playing politics. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney should set up a committee with all party leaders and finally solve this massive problem. By Angelo Persichilli The Hill … Continue reading

Posted in News, News Articles Prior to 2011

Failed Asylum Seekers To Get Free NHS Care

Failed asylum seekers to get free NHS care Failed asylum seekers will receive free healthcare on the NHS in a Government U-turn, ministers have announced. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Telegraph.co.uk Published: 6:03PM BST 20 Jul 2009 A review of … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

Government Plans Crackdown On ‘Health Tourism’

Government plans crackdown on 'health tourism' Non-EU visitors could be forced to take out health insurance to reduce levels of NHS cheating James Meikle guardian.co.uk Monday 20 July 2009 17.06 BST Proposals to force visitors to the UK who are … Continue reading

Posted in British, News

No Regrets, As Home Beckons After The Boom

No regrets, as home beckons after the boom RUADHN Mac CORMAIC Migration Correspondent The Irish Times Monday, July 20, 2009 Unemployment among immigrants in Spain could reach 30 per cent by the end of the year, writes RUADHN Mac CORMAIC, … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

Belgium Announces Amnesty For Illegals

Belgium launches amnesty for illegals Belgium is to launch a new regularisation operation for people who have been in the country for at least five years. Expatica News July 20, 2009 Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy has released the details … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

Mexicans Resentful Of Canada’s Sudden Invocation Of Visas

Mexicans resentful of Canadas sudden invocation of visas By David Agren Canwest News Service July 19, 2009 MEXICO CITY Adriana Arriaga fiddled with her iPhone and leaned impatiently along a metal barricade on a recent morning, while waiting for an … Continue reading

Posted in News, News Articles Prior to 2011

German Islamists Heading To Pakistan Training Camps

German Islamists heading to Pakistan training camps Monsters and Critics July 19, 2009, 10:36 GMT Berlin – The flow of radical Islamists from Germany to training camps in Pakistan has doubled this year, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported Sunday … Continue reading

Posted in European, News

No Need To Step Up Immigration Checks After Bombs

No need to step up immigration checks after bombs: Minister The Sydney Morning Herald July 19, 2009 There is no “immediate danger” of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) operatives relocating to Australia, Immigration Minister Chris Evans says. Senator Evans told Sky News … Continue reading

Posted in Australian and Others, News