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Non-EU workers applying for Tier 2 visas to work in Britain were dealt a blow recently as the UK’s immigration health surcharge looks set to double from £200 to £400 per year some time in 2018. The National Health Service (NHS) is set to net £220 million as a result of the fee increases.
Despite arriving in the US as a 7-year-old child, Laurens van Beek faces being kicked out of the US for turning 21 in July, 2018. Laurens’ father, Harold van Beek, arrived in the United States 14 years ago from the Netherlands and eventually settled in Iowa having come to the country as an exchange visitor, before being granted an E2 visa.
Thousands of Canadian investors face being locked out of America should Trump terminate NAFTA the North American Free Trade Agreement. Since 2007, 20,406 Canadians have been granted E2 treaty visas allowing them to invest in the US, creating thousands of jobs for American workers in the process.
Following the first Tier 2 visa allocation meeting of 2018, the number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for February 2018 stands at 1,615, according to UK Visas and Immigration data. The department published its January report citing that its figures were correct as of 18 January, 2018.
Undocumented Irish immigrants living in the US are being deported at an alarmingly high rate, according to an immigration, detention and US citizenship counsellor based at the Irish Pastoral Centre in Boston. Kieran O’ Sullivan said: “I’ve never seen such fear among the undocumented immigrant community as exists now.”
Melania Trump is embroiled in controversy after it emerged that she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 employment based immigrant program – reserved for renowned academics, multinational business managers and executives being transferred to the US, Olympic athletes and Oscar winning actors who demonstrated ‘sustained national and international acclaim,’- in March 2001. It is important to note that international executives and managers coming under the