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  04-May-2011

  CANADA WANTS TO DOUBLE IMMIGRATION AND INCREASE THE CURRENT CAP

  The province of Nova Scotia, Canada would like to double its intake of immigrants by 2020 to offset alarming skills gaps as the working age population drop off. Canada has been one of the most popular destinations for skilled migrants migrating from all over...

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  03-May-2011

  AUSTRALIA - GENERAL SKILLED MIGRATION PROCESSING TIME

  Applications for General Skilled Migration (GSM) provides updated information on procesing which was lastly updated. Current Processing - If an application date has recently come into our current processing date range you should allow at least 6 weeks to enable...

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  28-Apr-2011

  CANADA VISAS REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME TOUGHER FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS

  The Government of Canada  has put forward a new rule as one of the marriage requirements. This requirement is an attempt by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to stop fraudulent marriage applications. Under the new proposal, a spouse or partner...

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  02-Apr-2011

  CANADIAN IMMIGRATION NEW RULE FOR MARRIAGE REQUIREMENTS

  The Government of Canada  has put forward a new rule as one of the marriage requirements. This requirement is an attempt by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to stop fraudulent marriage applications. Under the new proposal, a spouse or partner...

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  08-Mar-2011

  NSW State Migration Plan

  The NSW Government has announced its State Migration Plan (effective from 3 March 2011).  The NSW State Migration Plan has 138 occupations. 18 of these are not on DIAC\'s Schedule 3 Skilled Occupation List. These are: For Skilled Regional Sponsored...

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  23-Feb-2011

  REMOVAL OF OCCUPATIONS FROM SSML

  As you will be aware, planning levels exist for each occupation on the State Sponsored Migration List (SSML).  Once the planning level has been reached the occupation/s are removed from the SSML. This has been outlined at www.migration.sa.gov.au Sponsorship...

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  11-Feb-2011

  AUSTRALIA REQUIRES SKILLED MIGRANT

  Dun and Bradstreet had recently conducted a survey of  1200 Australian businesses found that demand for employees has reached an seven year high and that skilled migration may be the key to solving expected labour shortages in Australia It was said...

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• 05-Feb-2011

  HIGH LEVELS OF IMMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

  Canberra has been chosen by more than 1850 Immigrants in the last two years.  It was advised that the Australian Capital Territory maintained a high level of immigration during the 2009-10 fiscal year.   The Australian Capital Territory, home...

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• 05-Feb-2011

  NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION SECTOR BOOMING THROUGH OVERSEAS STUDENTS

  According to the Department of Labour\'s migration trends report, The New Zealand education industry  has brought in $664 million more in student fee income than it did in the previous year.  There has been an increase of 10 percent overall growth...

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• 28-Jan-2011

  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REACHES H-1B CAP

  United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 27 January 2011 that it received enough H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2011 to reach the annual cap of 65,000 visas. Applications are considered to have been received on the date that...

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