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Donald Trump’s election as the new US president has sparked fears of H-1B and L-1 visa fee increases among Indian IT companies. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to curb visas for highly-skilled foreign workers, and threatened to clampdown on businesses who he says transfer jobs to countries with lower labour costs, such as China and India.
In response to a shortage of global talent in Canada, the government has moved to reduce the processing time for skilled foreign worker visas to two weeks. The government’s decision has been welcomed by the country’s tech industry, which they see as improving Canada’s competitiveness by making it easier to recruit top foreign talent on Canadian visas.
Bill Morneau, Canada’s finance minister, announced the new policy as part of an economic update. He said: “Ottawa will reduce the processing time for visas and work permits to two weeks, a drop from the many months it takes now.”
Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales, has said that the UK will ‘have to compromise with the European Union over immigration to safeguard jobs in Wales. Mr Jones said that a ‘trade-off’ would be essential to circumvent tariffs on businesses that trade with the EU.
A-rated Tier 2 sponsorship licence companies and Tier 5 sponsors in the UK are set to benefit from a new Priority Change of Circumstance Service introduced by UK Immigration.
Pro-EU peer, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, has sparked controversy after claiming that UK immigration is needed because “Britain needs an injection of intelligent people, young people from outside who come in and wake us up from time to time.” Labelling Britons ‘bloody stupid’, Lord Kerr was slammed by Eurosceptics and the right-wing press.
Following his surprise US presidential election victory, President-Elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport up to three million immigrants convicted of criminal activities, regardless of whether they are in the US legally or illegally. Trump’s comments came during an interview broadcast on CBS program, “60 minutes.” Many of these immigrants have “green cards”