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A new three-step nonimmigrant visa application process will see visas completed within seven working days, the British Embassy in Vietnam said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Janice Jacobs, assistant secretary at the Bureau of Consular Affairs, said the US was interested in increasing the number of foreign students, including Vietnamese, studying in the US. Currently, the US is hosting around 15,000 Vietnamese students and the Southeast Asian nation now ranks 8th among countries sending most students to the US, she said.

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The HCM City chairman recently directed the city’s police to better detect and fine illegal immigrants. Immigration police explains Vietnamese Law to two foreigners whose visa expired.

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The UK Government is following in the steps of the US Government in terms of increasing fees for visa processing.  The UK Government has recently announced proposed fee levels for all visa, immigration and nationality applications and services for the period 2009/10.

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Points based system forces employers to offer jobs to British before immigrants.

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Immigration consultants are being subjected to increasing criminal investigation and prosecution in the US.  Many are trying to bilk their clients with unrealistic promises of legitimate status and then the clients find out later that very little was done on their case. Nonetheless, there are legitimate immigration consultants that are bonded by the state and [...]

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More media coverage of Barack Obama’s aunt, Aunti Zeituni, regarding her deportation appeal and upcoming court date. ABC News’ Jason Ryan reports that officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no comment on the arrest request filed by the conservative group ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration) for President Obama to honor his proclamations about upholding [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration quietly withdrew in the weeks after Barack Obama’s election a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants. The future for Obama’s aunt, who had been living in the country illegally, will be determined at an immigration court hearing in April.

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The BBC reported on the immigration raids that occurred recently. Seven people have been arrested in raids by UK Border Agency officers on restaurants and takeaways in County Durham and Tyneside. In one Indian restaurant in Durham three Bangladeshi men were found working illegally while in a Chinese takeaway two more people were arrested. Three [...]

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Many nurses hoping to move to the US will now have to wait around three years to gain their US visa, as opposed to the two months they needed to wait previously, as US immigration clears its backlog of EB-3 visa applications. Foreign nurses are being told not to lose faith that they will be [...]

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