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The Home Office announced changes to UK immigration rules on Thursday, 3 November, which affect applications made on or after 24 November 2016. A 70-page document - Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules - has been published outlining changes to existing UK immigration rules.
There seems to be disagreement amongst President-elect Trump’s transition team about what Donald Trump really wants. “The Donald” also known as the “Glorious Leader” on a neo-nazi website may have said many things during the Presidential election campaign simply to gain votes.
According to an immigration adviser on his transition team the President-elect, Donald Trump, plans to introduce a controversial ‘Muslim registry’, scheme, for which Trump will not seek congressional approval, and which will target immigrants from ‘mostly-Muslim’ countries. This has been compared by some to Nazi Germany’s requirement that jews register.
Following October’s Tier 2 visa allocation meeting, the number of restricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for November stands at 2,911, according to UK Visas and Immigration data. These are needed to bring in skilled foreign workers who are resident outside the UK. The department published its October report citing that its figures were correct as of 14 October, 2016.
Australian immigration has launched a series of new, temporary work visa subclasses. From 19 November, 2016 the following four new visa types have become available:
New research published by the World Bank – an international financial institution that provides loans to developing Countries – has listed Canada as one of the top four immigration destination countries in the world that consistently attracts top level, highly skilled immigrants. The US remains first choice for almost 40 percent of highly skilled foreign workers.
On Thursday, October 6, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released four draft templates of E-1 treaty trader and E-2 treaty investor ‘request for evidence’ forms and is now inviting comments concerning the proposed petitions. These are letters sent to applicants where the USCIS requires additional documentation before reaching a decision on E-2 or E-1 employee visa application.