Immigration news

The Australian Federal government has delayed plans to tax the earnings of Australian working holiday visa holders on 462 and 417 visas by six months. However, if similar changes go through new tax rules from 1 January 2017 could see 'backpackers' forced to pay much higher taxes than Aussies. The new tax rules previously announced as part of the 2015 National Budget, had been strongly opposed by farmers and the tourism industry forcing Australian immigration to review the plans.

Oliver Robbins, a senior civil servant responsible for UK immigration policy at the Home Office and oversight of the borders, immigration and citizenship system, has been appointed chief of the newly formed Brexit unit at Whitehall. The new unit will include senior civil servants from the Cabinet Office, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Foreign Office and the Treasury.

The 23rd of June, 2016 will go down as a landmark moment in British history as the day that Britain decided to exit the European Union after 43 years as a member state. Having joined the European Community in 1973, under Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath, it's with a sense of irony that Britain should quit the EU under a Tory government.

During campaigning in the European Union Referendum there had been rumours that the UK would announce new steps to restrict UK immigration from EU Countries in an attempt to increase support for the remain campaign. At the time Chancellor George Osborne, had denied claims that the government would make an 'eleventh hour' pledge on reducing UK immigration by EU migrants. No such pledge was made. As it happens the leave campaign won and it seems that Britain will leave the EU. More recently the UK Government has been trying to use EU migrants as a bargaining chip in negotiations on terms for leaving the EU.

With 49 people shot dead, and a further 53 wounded, at a gay night club in Orlando at around 2am on Sunday, 12 June, a furious debate has sparked over US immigration and gun control, which is dividing the nation, according to a report published by Business Standard. The victims were gunned down by 29-year-old Omar Mateen.

There has been uncertainty about what will happen to EU citizens after the decision by the UK to leave the EU following the EU referendum of 23 June 2016.