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Matteo Renzi, the recently elected Italian premier, says that Italy may withdraw from the Eurozone due to disagreement over the Union's immigration policy. If this were to happen, the EU's economy would be thrown into chaos.
Mr Renzi says that unless the EU pays for Italy's sea patrols that search for migrants trying to enter Italy illegally, Italy will leave the Eurozone.
Right wing columnist Ann Coulter has written an article complaining about the World Cup. Ms Coulter does not approve of the World Cup for a host of ill-thought-through and prejudiced reasons, chief among which is her concern that 'No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer'.
It is, therefore, an immigrant's game. Ms Coulter says 'One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans [who like soccer] will drop their soccer fetish with time.
The UK's chief inspector of immigration, John Vine, has warned that there is evidence that many foreign nationals are gaining UK residence visas by the use of proxy marriage certificates. In certain countries a marriage can take place without one of the parties to the marriage being present (a proxy marriage).
Mr Vine warns that the Home Office is not taking sufficient steps to check on 'proxy marriage' certificates from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Brazil. His report says that fraudulent visa applications may be made using proxy marriage certificates.
The United States Department of State (DOS) has released its July 2014 Visa Bulletin.
The bulletin reveals that the DOS has made considerable progress in bringing cut-off dates forward but there are still considerable delays, particularly in the EB-3 visa category where there is a minimum waiting time of three years plus.
EB-3 applicants from China and India are currently waiting for eight to ten years for a permanent residence visa (or 'green card' as they are popularly known).
The full figures are laid out in a table below.
Priority cut-off dates for Employment based visas
A junior minister in the UK government has said that the UK will not turn back the clock on its reforms to the immigration system, despite the fact that it would be good for the economy.
Nicky Morgan, a junior minister in the Treasury and the minister for women, has told senior figures from the City of London that there were 'political sensitivities' around immigration which made it impossible for the government to change its policy on cutting net immigration to the UK.
FWD.us, the immigration reform pressure group founded by senior IT industry figures is holding a egrowthathonf to apply pressure to members of the House of Representatives to make them pass an immigration reform bill before August 1st.
The egrowthathonf involves many tech industry figures coming together to try to come up with ideas that will increase pressure on anti-reform Representatives to pass the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act which was passed by the Senate in June 2013.