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According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, immigration to the country has dropped significantly since the early 1990s. The number if immigrants dropped 9% in 2006 from the previous year.
In 1990, almost 200,000 people immigrated to Israel, most from Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. After 1991, in which 176,100 immigrants arrived in the country, the numbers declined steadily - from 77,057 in 1992 to 19,264 in 2006.
The question of immigration and movement of workers within the European Union has become an increasingly important issue in EU politics. One of the foundations of EU treaties and agreements is the free movement of labor within member states ... however, the situation has proven to be complicated with recent expansions of the bloc.
In 2004, when 10 new member states joined the bloc, only three nations, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden, allowed unrestricted access to workers from the former communist countries.
Canada unexpectedly granted permanent resident status this week to an Iranian man who spent nearly three years in sanctuary in a Vancouver church before being arrested over the weekend.
The Canada Border Services Agency released Amir Kazemian from custody after Citizenship and Immigration officials granted him residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
The leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP), Jack Layton, says the federal government needs to do more to recognize foreign credentials of immigrants who come to Canada and want to make it their home.
Sweden, known for liberal asylum policies, has seen a surge of refugees from war-torn Iraq in the last year. They are urging the European Union to help shoulder the burden by easing asylum restrictions across the bloc.
Worried immigrants across the United States are checking their budgets. The cost of filing more than two dozen kinds of immigration forms is proposed to go up by an average of 66% this year.
For the vast majority of legal immigrants who are just starting to apply for residency, fees for filing forms and for being fingerprinted would go from $935 to $1985.