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For the first time in a decade, Slovenia has reached its yearly work permit quota for non-European Union citizens in 2007.
The quota was set at approximately 54,000 permits, according to Marko Strovs, state secretary for the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs.
The European Union and Russia will put a simplified visa regime in place beginning from 01 June 2007, a product of talks at the Russia-EU summit in May 2006 in the Russian resort city of Sochi.
Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic, has a new system in place designed to track their citizens working abroad. A new government decree will increase the amount of information the country has about its citizens who migrate to other countries in search of employment.
At an event honoring Georgia business leaders on 17 May 2007, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the United States could solve the problem of skilled labor shortages needed to build up U.S. infrastructure if the country would make it easier for foreign workers to come to America.
The Swiss government relaxed its immigration laws on 01 June 2007, allowing more workers from Western European nations to seek employment within the country.
The new rules will allow citizens from European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, including Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, unlimited access to the Swiss labor market.
France's new Immigration Minister, Brice Hortefeux, is suggesting an approach for taking care of what many French consider to be a serious immigration problem. He has introduced the possibility of paying immigrants to return to their home country.