Immigration news

Romania's government said it plans to start international advertising, recruiting campaigns and bonuses to encourage citizens working abroad to return home.

Canadian Ministers Monte Solberg (Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, HRSDC), and Diane Finley (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, CIC) have announced new improvements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program. The program is intended to allow businesses to temporarily hire foreign workers where they cannot find a Canadian resident or citizen to fill vacant positions.

Despite a spate of scandals and ministerial departures, an economic boom helped by cash sent home by Poles working abroad has saved Poland's nationalist government.

Since the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland fully opened their labor markets to Polish workers in 2004, the financial inflows to the country have grown to 6.4 billion euros per year.

The British Home Office released the Accession Monitoring Report on 27 February 2007 detailing Worker Registration Scheme statistics for the "A8" countries (the eight Eastern European countries that joined the European Union in 2004) between May of 2004 and December of 2006.

Recent Australian political discourse, sacking of government officials and changing of department names shows that Oz - like many others - is coming to grips with an increasingly globalized world. Recent events suggest a shift from embracing the concept of multiculturalism in Australia to a focus on cultural unity.

New immigration legislation designed to strengthen Australian security passed the Senate on 25 February 2007. The House of Representatives passed the legislation in November.

New requirements include doubling the time period a migrant must reside in Australia from two to four years before being eligible for citizenship. Initially the period was to be three years; however it was increased from the legislation proposal.