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Despite the global financial crisis, Australia's Immigration Minister Chris Evans has indicated that he expects only modest cuts in next years migrant intake program which is currently at an all time high, with Australia taking more than 200 000 new immigrants per year.
On 12 December, Switzerland added its name to the list of countries that have adopted the Schengen Agreement and In doing so became the 25th member of the group, which has no border controls for people passing between member states and a single external border.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services is opening four new immigration facilities in South Florida to replace the one that it currently operates.
According to new rules which came into effect on 27 November 2008, the minimum age at which a spouse can join their migrant partner in the UK has been raised from 18 to 21 for both parties.
Jason Kenney, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, has announced the appointment to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of a leading figure in the Indo-Canadian community in Vancouver.
A net inflow of migrants helped push the population of the European Union close to half a billion people in 2008 according to figures released this week in Brussels.