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Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has released statistics on the country's 2006-07 migration program, which granted 148,200 permanent visas for skilled migration, family migration, and humanitarian migration categories.
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The Daily Yomiuri reports that the number of foreign students staying in Japan to work after graduation has hit record levels.
Ireland's IT companies are complaining that the country's current immigration legislation is making it hard for them to hire workers from outside the European Union.
The Moscow city government's plan to reduce the quota in 2008 on the number of migrant workers from 750,000 to 250,000 has caused a stir in Russia's Federal Migration Service.
India is currently the number one source of international students to the United States, and leads the world in the number of students it sends overseas.
Diane Finley, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, has announced $12.5 million in funding for the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, which will be distributed among seven partner agencies in Hamilt