The "Founder Visa" - Immigration We Can All Agree On?

Controversies about immigration are nothing new. At a time when racial tensions are being exacerbated by foreign wars, religious terrorism and globalisation, the issue has rarely been more prominent.Separating...

Mexico Requires Visas for Canadian diplomats-Retaliation

Canada has implemented the requirement for visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic for Visas.  The stated reason was that 9400 Mexicans applied for refugee status and Canada was attempting to slow this...

Aid workers made to leave Sri Lanka under strict new visa rules

Aid workers in Sri Lanka are faced with strict new visa rules making it difficult for them to extend their visas to stay in Sri Lanka. One foreign national working for Forut was deported on Saturday and another employee of Forut denied re-entry to Sri lanka last month. Some...

Google’s ‘Immigration Fixer’

The title “immigration specialist” grabbed my attention in this article in the Business, Innovation, Technology and Society (Bits) section of the online New York Times. Christine Doyle does not, as I first...

Green Cards for $1 000 000

With the economy getting worse, the US Government gets louder and lighter on the immigration regime. Before the crisis nobody, or almost nobody, knew about the existence of EB-5 visas. Now, as most sectors in the US economy are in a plight, everybody is talking about the...

160 Million Nelson Mandelas

" Newsweek called Pakistan “the most dangerous nation in the world.” Western media calls Pakistan “a power-keg waiting to explode,” while their military describes us as “being in a fight for our national existence.” The world that we all claw and...

"Gruesome" Chinese Student Murder "Involved in Internet BETTING SCAM"

Detectives piecing together the motive for the murders of ex-Newcastle University students Yang Zhen Xing and girlfriend Xi Xhou say Yang may have been involved in an international BETTING SCAM on the internet....

Ireland, US could ease immigration

I know that my view on this will not be popular with many but I must say that I fail to understand the Irish Government's attitude when it comes to "illegal" immigrants. If the illegal immigrant is Irish and is working in the US they are really "good guys" contributing to...

Myanmar approves all pending visas for UN aid workers

Myanmar has made good on its pledge to Ban Ki Moon, and approved the visas for foreign aid works that it had been delaying on. However it is still unclear if they will accept aid from American and French military...

Chinese diplomat honored for saving thousands in Holocaust

Stories like this abound nowadays but they remain equally enthralling.  It has made me wonder, what could have their parents, guardians, and/or mentors told them as they were growing up so that they put others ahead of themselves?  Then I thought, maybe they were...

Bush Wants Personal Info on European Tourists

Whether or not Washington admits it, the US economy is hurting. Scaring away tourists? Not helping. What would Americans say if, for example, Britain demanded info on would-be tourists from Iowa? A buck says...

Three foreign nationals deported from Bukittinggi

Bukittinggi, W Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Local immigration authorities have deported three foreign nationals for overtaying their visas and illegally entering Indonesia, a spokesman said."We have sent them to the immigration detention center in Pekanbaru for further deportation...

Foreign climate change activists deported from Indonesia

""They were deported via Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta yesterday (Tuesday)," he told AFP. The three -- Shibu Nair from India, Gigie Cruz from the Philippines and Neil Tangri from the United States -- held tourist visas and these had been violated when they attended the...

Mexican President Assails U.S. Measures on Migrants

President Calderon's attempt to draw attention from Mexico's poverty, took aim at US immigration legal system. He's advocating amnesty for "undocumented workers" and open borders.He complained about "human rights...

Russian expels 4 British diplomats

This is starting to get really ugly. "MOSCOW - Russia said Thursday it will expel four British diplomats and suspend counterterrorism cooperation with London, the latest move in a mounting confrontation over the...

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