Immigration news

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has called for separate immigration queues for UK citizens at airports and border control points. The announcement was made by Steven Wolfe at the UKIP conference last month.

Under the current system there are two separate queues, one for EU and EEA citizens (including British citizens), and one for the rest of the world. However UKIP would change this so that EU and EEA citizens would have to join the 'rest of the world' queue, and UK citizens would have priority entry.

A UK Labour MP has called for income requirements for marriage visas to be reviewed, after being contacted by two families who are being forced to live apart under the current scheme.

A new deal has been agreed in Australia between the Palmer United Party and Federal government to allow refugee families to live on mainland Australia.

A new visa has been created called the Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHAV), which is valid for five years. It allows for the visa holder to be sent to regions of Australia that are experiencing labour shortages and also to remote areas of Australia.

The head of a UK recruitment agency has accused the government of endangering the UK's economic recovery, by making immigration difficult for skilled migrants from outside the EU.

At the moment government policy is to substantially reduce immigration. Alistair Cox, chief executive of Hays recruitment disagrees with this policy and says that immigration brings economic benefits to the UK.

US Vice President Joe Biden has reassured Hispanics that they intend to introduce 'an awful lot' of immigration reforms after the midterm elections in November.

Vice President Biden spoke out at a Hispanic Heritage Month reception in Washington DC; he promised the crowd that President Obama was 'absolutely committed' to pushing through immigration reforms.

A woman born and raised in Calgary, Canada is now facing a 23 month wait to get back into the country with her Syrian husband.

Anya Sass met her husband Habib Al-Ibrahim whilst visiting Syria in 2011. They married a year later. The plan was to remain in Syria, but when civil war broke out the couple realised the best option for them would be for both of them move to Canada.