Kiribati man's climate change asylum bid fails
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9:46 02/12/2013
New Zealand's High Court has rejected a claim that a Kiribati man was effectively a refugee because of climate change. Ioane Teitiota was appealing against the decision of an immigration tribunal to...
Canadian court allows Chinese miners with temporary work visas to stay
10:13 04/06/2013
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that a company that employed 200 Chinese miners under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in 2012 was acting lawfully. Two Canadian unions had challenged...
UK will limit immigrants' right to challenge immigration decisions
18:57 30/04/2013
Chris Grayling, the UK's Lord Chancellor, (as the justice minister is called in the UK) has announced changes to the justice system which will limit the right of people to use the courts to challenge...
Canada's Federal Court dismisses immigration case of would-be immigrants
18:19 23/04/2013
A Canadian judge has ruled that the country's immigration minister, Jason Kenney, did not break the law when he terminated applications for permanent residence visas from some 280,000 applicants in...
UK immigration grants new Tier 4 Sponsorship licence to LMU
9:34 12/04/2013
The UK's Home Office has issued a new Tier 4 sponsorship licence to London Metropolitan University (LMU). The Home Office made the announcement on 9th April 2013 and said the licence would be...
Canadian immigration has cut permanent residence backlog by 40% since 2008
9:00 02/04/2013
The Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney gave a somewhat self-congratulatory presentation at Mississauga, Ontario on March 26th 2013 in which he laid out the actions that his department had...
