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The United Kingdom is toughening its borders in an effort to combat illegal immigration and fraud. New immigration reforms include increased checks on everyone before they enter Britain, new fines for sponsors of overstayers, higher age limits for foreign marriage partners, and an overhauled visa regime.
Britain has agreed to review changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) that have affected a large number of skilled migrants who are currently working in the UK.
CBC News has found that the number of people who have been stripped of Canadian citizenship - the so-called 'Lost Canadians' - is far greater than the federal government has let on.
Immigration Minister Diane Finely originally stated that her department was handling 450 cases of people affected by an obscure immigration law called the 1947 Citizenship Act that strips citizenship from those with unusual circumstances such as being born to a non-Canadian mother out of wedlock or to parents living overseas.
In a particularly embarrassing admission, the inspector general for the United States' Department of Homeland Security released a report on Monday indicating that they cannot account for over 600,000 foreigners who were ordered to leave the country.
The European Union is celebrating fifty years of existence this month.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 23 March that it had received a sufficient amount of petitions to reach the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the final six months of fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007). The limit for H-2B workers is 33,000 for the second half of the fiscal year.