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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that from December 23, 2016, fees for most types of US immigration application will increase. Those filing for naturalization, permanent residency and non-immigrant visas can expect to pay higher fees.
There continues to be good availability of restricted tier 2 visa certificates of sponsorship to enable UK employers with a tier 2 certificates of sponsorship to employ skilled workers from outside the EU and EEA on Tier 2 Visas. Following November’s Tier 2 visa allocation meeting, the number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for December was 2,932, according to UK Visas and Immigration data.
The OISC is currently being sued for racial discrimination in the Employment Tribunal. There are extremely serious allegations of widespread racial discrimination during the time that Suzanne McCarthy was Immigration Services Commissioner, which is in breach of their own equality policy. A number of people have commented that the OISC is "institutionally racist". It has also been said that problems with racism at the OISC continue at the same level or at an even worse level under the current Deputy Immigration Services Commissioner Dr Ian Leigh (for a nu
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a long-awaited, final rule to “update and improve” certain employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa programs. The proposed rule was first published in the Federal Register on December 31, 2015. The final rule comes into force on 17 January 2017 shortly before Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States on 20 January 2017.
President elect Donald Trump has vowed to put an end to what he calls H-1B and L-1 visa “abuse” in a bid to tackle what he sees as the loss of ‘American’ jobs. Fortunately it seems that he has not raised any concerns about the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa scheme and E-1 Treaty Trader visa scheme. Some would say that complaining about the H-1B and L-1 visa scheme is somewhat hypocritic
UK doctors may face tighter Australian work visa restrictions if they plan to move down under because Australia is trying to reduce levels of immigration of foreign doctors.