Video News

This week`s video news includes the following stories: the European Union is considering ways to attract more skilled, legal imigrants, New Zealand hopes that a change to the way skilled migrants are selected will help target top quality immigrants and will increase the benefits to New Zealand, farmers in the US state of California, and other states bordering Mexico, are reporting labor shortages.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: the US Senate-passed measure to provide additional foreign worker visas for the high-tech and specialty fields was dropped from a budget bill that passed the House early on Dec. 19, the UK Government is introducing a new immigration category that allows religious workers in non-preaching roles to come to the UK to work for up to two years, lamb shearers are in short supply as summer shearing enters a bottleneck in New Zealand, thousands of nurses and midwives are still being hired from the world`s poorest countries to work in the UK.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: Australia is suffering a skills shortage because fewer young people are entering the trades, but instead want to enter university, new figures show the jobs market in Australia continues to strengthen, a version of Scotland`s Fresh Talent Initiative, which allows foreign graduates to live and work in Scotland for two years, will be launched in England, 3,302 of the US` H1B visas remain for those who hold master`s degrees or higher.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: manufacturers in the US say they are having trouble finding skilled help, research in Australia finds that new migrants to Australia are finding employment faster than ever before, Australia`s New South Wales (NSW) this week announced a major expansion of the Government`s efforts to attract skilled business migrants to NSW, a UK government report says the UK is in danger of falling behind internationally because of a skills shortage.