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The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA) is calling on the Australian government to more aggressively investigate and sanction employers and businesses who are abusing immigrant workers via the 457 visa scheme.
The United Kingdoms Department of Health recently released guidance that overseas doctors within the UK should not be interviewed for positions if their HSMP visa was set to expire past 01 August of 2007. The clause was retracted, however; mainly in response to efforts by Bapio Action Ltd.
The United States implemented new requirements for travelers entering the country, as of 23 January this year, to comply with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. All persons entering the U.S. by air travel must have a passport, or some form of identification from a very restrictive list.
A recent report by the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), one of the country's leading think tanks, says that, for Scotland to keep its demographic profile and prevent an inevitable population drop, one of the solutions is to significantly increase immigration.
Bush, in his tour of Latin America, vowed to make immigrating to the US easier. However, his push for immigration reform has met staunch opposition from his own Republican party.
In his last stop in Mexico, Bush stood alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and said that a good migration law would help both economies as well as the security of both nations.
The New Zealand Labour Department has launched an ad campaign through Tourism New Zealand's tourism and marketing program designed to attract highly skilled workers in the nearby region to live and work in Kiwi.