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In June 2016, Workpermit.com reported how top US Army General, John Nicholson, urged US lawmakers to preserve the Afghan immigration visa programme for those Afghan civilians who aided the US-led coalition in the fight against the Taliban. Three months on, and more than 12,000 of them are still waiting for their US visa.
According to recent data, over 2,600 foreign nationals were granted government-sponsored, Australian 457 visas during the 2015-2016 financial year to come and do jobs that couldn’t be filled by domestic workers. Out of the 2,618 foreign nationals issued with a 457 visa, 2,268 were health professionals. 457 visas for the public sector however represent only a small percentage of the total 457 visas issued.
Newly installed Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has confirmed that a work permit system is one of many options being considered in a bid to restrict the number of EU citizens coming to the UK, post-Brexit. However, Rudd said that any changes ‘must be for the good of the UK economy.’
According to the Counsellor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Jamaica, Joshua Polacheck, applications for US non-immigrant visas – mainly the B-1 business visitor visa and B-2 visitor for pleasure, but also including work visas such as the E-1 treaty trader and E-2 treaty investor visas and L-1 intra-company transfer visas - have increased by a staggering 117 per cent.
Employers with a Tier 2 Sponsorship licence need to also have a Tier 2 certificate of sponsorship for each overseas employee that they wish to employ. We are covering below details of the monthly quota for restricted COSs for applicants based abroad who will be earning less than £155,300 a year. Many people who are currently in the UK on a visa such as say a Tier 2 visa working for another employer can switch to a new Tier 2 visa without worrying about the quota on an unrestricted COS. Depending on the Tier 2 COS a
During the August 2016 visit to India, Michele Bond, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs revealed that despite a hike in USCIS H-1B and L-1 visa fees on December 19, 2015, Indian nationals remain the highest beneficiary of these non-immigrant visa categories. According to Bond, India accounts for 70% of H-1B visas and 30% of L-1 visas issued worldwide by Washington.