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ISLAMABAD: While the British High Commission hogs on to its claim of having lost just 150 Pakistani passports, additional evidence has come to light suggesting that the scam involves thousands of lost travel documents. A Pakistani investigating agency is in possession of a list of 3,362 passports, which are believed to have gone missing at [...]
ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission, while refusing to accept the social and economic status of the former Punjab governor and senior adviser to the punjab chief minister Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, has declined to issue a visa to him. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also phoned the British high commissioner and his secretary wrote a letter [...]
ISLAMABAD: Washington wants Islamabad to put in place a restriction free and uniform visa regime for its diplomats and embassy staff posted here allowing them to carry out ‘full range of activities’. “We look forward to creation of a visa mechanism that will enable US officials do their jobs without interference,” US Ambassador Anne Patterson [...]
LONDON: Labour’s record on tackling asylum faces a fresh onslaught today over figures that show a new backlog of 30,000 cases and a warning by the government’s immigration watchdog that its targets are currently “unachievable”. John Vine also makes clear that a special five-year exercise which began in 2006 to clear the legacy of 450,000 [...]
NEW YORK: The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption. The teenager, a gifted student, was pleading guilty to a string of [...]
LONDON: UK immigration recently announced full details of the UK student visa changes under Tier 4 of the points based system. The intention of the changes is to make it more difficult for bogus students from outside Europe to gain entry to the UK. This follows a review of the Tier 4 visa system in [...]
A recent online survey of 1600 international students in more than 10 Australian Universities shows that 24 percent are interested in studying overseas to gain permanent residence. This is up five percent compared to a similar survey in 2005. The recent changes to the Australian immigration system which will make it more difficult for many [...]
On 8 February 2010 the Immigration Minister Chris Evans announced a number of major changes to the Australian immigration system. This will affect applicants applying for General Skilled Migration. Removal of the Migration Occupations in Demand List: Immigration Minister Chris Evans announced the outcome of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL). [...]
LONDON: Britain has temporarily suspended student visa applications from Northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The UK Border Agency, according to a report by a British media, took this step apparently as a precaution to a surge of applications. According to reports, student visa applications from Bangladesh, Nepal and northern India, have been put on hold [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday urged the United Kingdom not to discriminate against Pakistani students, businessmen and travellers while processing their visa cases. The prime minister noted that 41 per cent of Pakistani visa applicants’ cases were rejected according to a BBC report, as compared to the world average rejection of [...]
PARIS: France launched a probe on Saturday and called for a European summit to combat illegal immigration, a day after 124 self-proclaimed Kurds landed in Corsica. Immigration Minister Eric Besson underscored that the French Mediterranean island could not be allowed to become an entry point for illegal immigrants and mooted a European conference as an [...]
NEW YORK: Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government list of such deaths, few facts were available about who these people were [...]
COPENHAGEN: As part of the prolonged national headache caused by a Danish newspaper’s decision to publish 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, last weekend’s attack on one of the cartoonists responsible had a certain awful inevitability about it. Once again, the motivation was fury, still fresh after all this time, over the dissemination [...]
MELBOURNE: India’s top diplomat in Australia on Friday rejected claims from police that racism was not a factor in a wave of savage attacks on students from the subcontinent. High Commissioner (ambassador) to Australia Sujatha Singh said after a meeting with police that there would be increased patrols around trouble spots in Melbourne in a [...]
SEOUL: Starting next year, new measures aimed at attracting foreign talent and addressing problems arising from an increasing expatriate population will be introduced. The Ministry of Justice plans to give foreign professionals advantages in gaining permanent residency or F-5 visas, if their potential and present contributions are deemed essential. Foreign nationals with an F-5 visa [...]
LONDON: The United Kingdom Border Agency has recently commented on media reports that suggest that Pakistani’s are more likely to be refused visas to the UK. UK Border Agency Chief Executive Lin Homer had the following to say: ‘We do not discriminate against any individual nationality, to suggest otherwise is false. Applications from Pakistan are [...]
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