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Due to the Syrian refugee crisis and the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday 13 November 2015 there has been renewed interest in the fact that the late Steve Jobs' father is actually a Syrian muslim.
According to USA Today one of the most popular US newspapers 'some people couldn't help but turn to Twitter, wondering if there would ever be a Steve Jobs or Apple if the most restrictive "keep-them-out" policies were in place. "
The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS), which is the fraud unit of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has announced plans to increase further the number of site visits made to L-1 visa employers which are employers that employ overseas nationals on both L-1A managers and Executive visas and L-1B visas for specialized knowledge employees during the current fiscal year.
A report published by daily US newspaper, the New York Post, says that Trump 'loves immigrants if they're hot chicks.'' His modelling agency – Trump Model Management has according to Reuters employed 250 models on visas such as the O-1 exceptional talent visa and H-1B visa.
In its first 12 months, Canada's highly anticipated Express Entry system saw 191,279 applications made in 2015, of which 31,000 were offered the opportunity to become permanent residents – 16% of whom worked in the food service and cooking industries.
The Express Entry system, which is Canada's flagship economic immigration selection system, has been branded a success for its 'just in time' system that has processed most applications from start to finish within the government's target timeframe of six months.
During an interview with the New York Post, Ivana Trump the ex-wife of frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, put forward some interesting views on US immigration, saying that the country needs immigrants because "who's going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don't like to do that."
A senior judge has decided not to allow a Judicial Review of the decision to revoke the Tier 2 visa sponsorship licence of care provision company, De Vere Care. Following a surprise visit by Home Office immigration officers in January 2015, De Vere had its Tier 2 sponsorship licence revoked in July of the same year; the Home Office says the company was found to be employing 'public relations officers' as carers.