Immigration news

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced a new permanent residence visa aimed at wealthy investors.

The 'Premium Investor Visa,' which will be launched next summer, is available for applicants who can invest $15 million or more into the Australian economy.

This new visa will be in addition to the 'Significant Investor Program' for investments of $5 million or over. There have already been over four hundred Significant Investor visas issued since November 2012. Investors who meet the residence requirements may also be able to gain permanent residence in Australia.

A UK business and education minister has admitted that it may be impossible to control the number of migrants arriving in Britain from the EU.

Nick Boles said that the British Prime Minister David Cameron cannot stop 'very large' numbers migrating to the UK, due to the EU's freedom of movement laws, which he describes as a 'fundamental principle of the EU.' Like David Cameron Nick Boles is also a Conservative Party MP.

The E-2 Treaty Investor visa category may soon be open to Israeli business owners and investors after moves by both the US and Israeli governments.

The Israeli parliament have recently granted the ability to apply for investor visas to US citizens in Israel, so it seems likely that a similar move from the US government will be agreed shortly.

A new $6.8bn road contract could attract thousands of overseas workers to Australia.

A job advert has already been posted for an immigration adviser to process 457-visas, suggesting that a large number of overseas nationals will be recruited to help with the Australian road project.

A leading academic has criticised the UK government's tough and complicated international student visa requirements, saying that he is 'baffled' by the policy.

Professor Andrew Hamilton is the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. He spoke out at his annual speech to the university; the audience included a number of academics.

He pointed out that 'for the first time in decades, the number of international students at our universities has dropped, most markedly from India.'

Hispanic groups are campaigning for President Obama to grant access to Obamacare health insurance, for a group of Hispanic immigrants known as 'Dreamers.'

The dreamers are a group of hundreds of thousands of young adults who were brought to the US illegally by their parents. They were granted temporary legal immigration status by Obama in 2012, under his 'deferred action' initiative.