| Cooks Immigration Minister Meets With Expat Fiji Workers | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:45:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cook Islands Immigration Minister Wilkie Rasmussen has met with its large Fiji community as he seeks solutions to illegal-foreign-worker problems, the Cook Islands Herald reports. Mr Rasmussen was holding a series of meetings with expatriate communities, including Samoans, Tongans and Filipinos. They come after Immigration officers produced a list of alleged illegal workers. Mr Rasmussen has put any deportation orders on hold and said he wants to hear all views on the issue. He has also stressed that some Cook Islands employers could be at fault, not just foreign workers. The government has been urged to release the report on the last major review of immigration policy. The report was commissioned in 2003 but its findings were never made public. The newspaper said this would help bring the whole issue of immigration policy into the open to enable public scrutiny, and enhance citizen's awareness of the issues involved.... | |
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| | | Changes to British immigration rules to affect Indians | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:45:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | London, Nov 8 (IANS) In a further tightening of immigration rules, Britain Tuesday announced the latest of several changes this year that have affected highly skilled migrants from India and other non-European Union countries. The changes have drawn considerable criticism from Indians and others who are already in Britain under various employment categories. Several of them say the changes make them feel unwelcome and will force them to consider moving elsewhere. Further tightening of immigration rules are expected for non-EU nationals due to the migration to Britain of thousands of nationals from countries that have recently joined the EU. In April, thousands of Indian doctors were affected by the abolition of 'permit-free training', which had earlier allowed them to take up employment in the National Health Service without a work permit.... | |
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| | | Angola: New Immigration Services Chief Has Tough Job | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 10:46:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | The recently appointed deputy minister of the Interior, Eduardo de Almeida Ferreira Martins, who is also the new head of the country's Immigration Services, has been tasked with ending the "mess" in the migration department, which led to the dismissal of the previous management board. After being sworn-in last Wednesday by the Angolan Head of State, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the new chief of the Migration and Foreigners Services (SME) was introduced on Friday to the Interior Ministry staff, during a ceremony that was chaired by the incumbent minister, Roberto Leal Ramos Monteiro "Ngongo". .... | |
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| | | A surge in immigration is spawning a backlash | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 12:45:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In the Mecklenburg County jail, an inmate in an orange jumpsuit puts his finger on an electronic pad and watches his fingerprint appear on a computer screen. Within minutes, the computer returns a name - Arturo Romero - with photographs and a rap sheet that details a history of petty offenses and illegal entries into the United States from Mexico. Romero, arrested here for having an open container of beer in a vehicle, now faces a trip to an immigration detention center in Atlanta and deportation to Mexico. In booming Charlotte, where rapid growth and plentiful jobs have attracted thousands of illegal immigrants, Romero is the latest catch in an aggressive new effort to turn routine arrests into one-way tickets out of the country.... | |
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| | | Reid to unveil immigration plan | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:45:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Home Secretary John Reid will unveil details early next week of the Government's plan to control immigration from Romania and Bulgaria when the two countries join the European Union in January. Reports in The Observer suggest that he will announce time-limited controls on the right of citizens from both countries to work in Britain. While the UK will take a limited number of unskilled workers to carry out jobs like fruit-picking, Mr Reid is expected to say that it will not operate the same kind of "open-door" policy which has seen thousands of plumbers, builders and other workers arrive from Poland and other new EU members. Mr Reid announced in September that transitional arrangements would be put in place to deal with citizens of the countries joining the EU in the latest round of European enlargement.... | |
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| | | Irvington lawyer accused of immigration fraud | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:45:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | Federal agents yesterday arrested an Irvington immigration lawyer who they said earned thousands of dollars by doctoring forms for illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. An indictment unsealed in Newark charged the attorney, Jonathan Saint Preux, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and immigration fraud. Also charged were Preux's wife, Michele Saint Preux, and Narajan Patel, who allegedly recruited immigrants for the scheme. Saint Preux, 44, and his wife ran a law office at 700 Nye Ave. in Irvington. According to the indictment, he coached illegal immigrants to lie about how long they had lived in the United States so they could win amnesty to remain in country. Saint Preux and his wife, who managed his office, allegedly then accepted as much as $5,000 to prepare and file the amnesty documents.... | |
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| | | Illegal immigration: Risk-free vs. risk all | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:45:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | The U.S. Congress' failure to enact a comprehensive bill to deal with illegal immigration has left most states frustrated and working on their own solutions. The situation has created a hodgepodge of fixes, or potential fixes, that serve nothing more than to appease constituencies on both sides of the issue without stemming the problem. In Massachusetts, the city of Cambridge has declared itself to be a "sanctuary city," meaning it welcomes illegal immigrants and is willing to provide public services to them -- no questions asked. This approach is in defiance of federal law. The town of Sandwich, meanwhile, is considering the opposite approach -- "not to be a sanctuary city." At Town Meeting, residents will vote on an ordinance that would impose a $1,000 fine on businesses that employ illegal immigrants.... | |
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| | | Immigration officer charged | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:45:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | KANGAR: A former state immigration deputy director was charged with 25 counts of corruption at a Sessions Court here yesterday. Ramli Mat Jusoh, 52, was charged with 20 counts of accepting a total of RM8,800 from contractor Abu Bakar Karim at a shop in Jalan Kangar-Padang Besar between May 2001 and January 2004. He allegedly took the money in return for not carrying out stringent checks on Abu Bakar?s construction work at the immigration complex in Padang Besar. .... | |
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| | | State sheriffs watching Hall s immigration push | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 6:46:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | From Memphis to Knoxville, Tennessee county sheriffs are intently watching as Davidson County seeks to become only the fourth county nationwide to be able to act as its own enforcer of federal immigration laws. On Aug. 15, Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall formally requested that his office be allowed to take part in a federal initiative called the Delegation of Authority Program, otherwise known as section 287 (g) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1996. 287 (g) would give the Sheriff's Office the ability and authority to immediately screen all arrestees for immigration violations, and begin deportation proceedings without having to wait for intervention by the federal government. When Hall formally announced Nashville's intention to receive immigration technology and authorization from the federal government, he was joined by Gov.... | |
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| | | Immigration scam accused is NCP secy | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 12:45:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | Vadodara, September 10: Sayajigunj police have found that the main accused in the immigration racket unearthed two days ago is a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) organising secretary in Gujarat. Ashwin Shah, a small-time politician who is still absconding, is believed to be the main brain behind the scam that promised jobs to youths in foreign countries but reneged on the promise after taking money from them. .... | |
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