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Almost 600 overseas students have obtained permission to stay in Scotland for a further two years since a new scheme, called the Scottish Executive's Fresh Talent initiative, was introduced in June. Under the scheme international students who have graduated from a Scottish University or College and who have lived in Scotland while studying, are eligible to apply to stay in Scotland to live and work for up to two years. Officials said that more than 10% of the overseas students eligible to apply for the visa had done so. The Working in Scotland scheme, open to non-European Union students, is a key part of the Fresh Talent initiative aimed at boosting Scotland's population and attracting qualified foreign workers. At the end of two years, applicants must leave Scotland, unless they are granted a work permit or allowed to remain because they have particular skills or abilities.
According to estate agents in Ireland, Polish, Czech, Filipino, Indian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Lithuanian immigrants in Ireland are no longer content to rent and are making moves to acquire their own homes. Some real estate agents say that about 30% of their home sales are going to non-Irish buyers. Typically, the new immigrant home buyers are between age 25 and 35, have been renting for two years and are looking for a home in the ?†250,000-?†400,000 price range. This usually means a two-bedroom apartment or an entry-level home with a garden, depending on family circumstances.
New Zealand's new Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who is known as an opponent of immigration, says he wants to encourage more Chinese students to study English in New Zealand. In the past he has been an outspoken opponent of the level of Asian immigration to New Zealand, once saying the country was being colonised by Asians. The foreign minister says he did not expect his previous statements on immigration would cause any difficulties in dealing with China or any other Asian nation, saying they had more rigid immigration policies than New Zealand.
Some officials in the UK believe that each member state of the European Union should be able to control its own economic migration, rather than having EU-wide policies. Their opposition is a response to proposals from the European Commission to discuss better ways of managing economic migration into the EU. In a report released by the House of Lords European Union committee, the group said that the UK should retain control of its economic migration policies. Member states were best placed to work out whether or not they needed economic migration, argued the all-party group. The committee said it did not believe it was possible for government to set fixed limits for immigration because of the changing needs of the economy. Current unemployment rates, for example, vary from 4.6% in the UK to 9.8% in France and Germany, with a high of 18.1% in Poland.
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