Immigration news

If you are from the UK and Ireland and are interested in going to Canada on a working holiday visa you will have to wait until next year to apply; The quota for the International Experience Canada (IEC) 2012 has been reached for applicants from the UK and Ireland and is now closed for people from these Countries. In March, Canada made available a total of 5,350 working visa places for young people from Ireland and the UK wishing to spend a year in the country under the International Experience Canada (IEC) programme.

As Canadian immigration begins to implement their biometrics system for visa applicants, an internal report urges the government to create a proper appeals process for visa applicants who are rejected because the biometrics system says that their fingerprints do not match the fingerprints stored on the biometrics system.

Australia is encouraging wealthy immigrants to move to the country with the announcement of a new visa called the Significant Investor visa. The new visa will grant visas to immigrants who can make an investment of at least AUD$5 million in the Australian economy."The significant investor visa will provide a boost to our economy and help Australia to compete effectively for high net worth individuals seeking investment immigration," Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services launched the first phase of its electronic immigration system, known as USCIS ELIS. The system was created to modernize and expedite the process for filing and adjudicating immigration applications. This marks the first step in its multi-year plan to shift the immigration department from paper to digital forms.

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Earlier this year Canadian immigration announced their plans to stop the processing of Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) visa applications submitted before 27 February 2008 and reject these applications in order to reduce the backlog of visa applications. However, more recently, the immigration department has reportedly instructed its visa officers not to return the applications and continue processing the visas.