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workpermit.com CEO Sanwar Ali was interviewed in the Toronto Star for a story which meantions workpermit.com's "comprehensive knowledge about how to get into Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States."

Sanwar gave his views on the easiest countries to immigrate to out of the four.

The government's Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Bill is due to be published this Thursday. The institute for public policy research (ippr), says that if it is more difficult for migrants to gain British citizenship this could have damaging consequences for the UK's economic recovery.

The Conference Board's International Trade and Investment Centre says that visa requirements for business visitors is damaging for the Canadian economy in their report Barriers at the Border: The Costs of Impediments to Business Mobility.

It is recommended that new Embassies should be opened in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. The recommends that it should be cheaper and faster to obtain business visit visas.

Skilled Migrants wishing to gain UK citizenship may have to wait at least a year as "probationary citizens". The Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Bill will have its first reading today.

One of Australian sport's highest profile administrators will head the new Australian Multicultural Advisory Council, says Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou will chair the 16-member council which. It is hoped that this will bring new cultural diversity perspectives to the Australian Government.

The Australian migration program for the second half of 2008-09 has changed so that skilled migrants who have a confirmed job, or have skills in critical need will be given priority for a permanent visa to come to Australia.