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Published Friday, March 13, 2009by CNN It’s a sad state of affairs when people who were born in this, the freest and most prosperous country on Earth — instantly becoming U.S. citizens, no less — with a free education and every other opportunity to improve their lives find themselves afraid to compete with a group [...]

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Thailand has introduced a new investment visa for foreign nationals who will contribute at least 10 million Thai Baht (THB) towards certain allowable investments. Thai authorities have also eliminated the minimum equity threshold for employers sponsoring renewals of Long-Term Stay Visas.

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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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New measures to bar tens of thousands of foreign workers from outside Europe coming to work in Britain as the recession bites deeper were outlined by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, today. The package includes possible moves to prevent the families of skilled migrants working in Britain and restricting skilled migrants to taking jobs only [...]

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Fifty-two per cent said they wanted a Tory administration to reduce immigration. This week immigration figures revealed that one in nine people living in Britain was born overseas, highlighting a significant change in population make-up under Labour. There were 6.5 million people born abroad who were resident in the UK in June 2008. This represented [...]

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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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 New requirements for immigrants in the UK to carry identity cards, replacing stickers in passports.

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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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