Immigration News

Large number of Indians heading to Russia, New Zealand and Canada for holidays February 26, 2016

According to the travel firms, there has been increase of 25-30%, as large number of Indians travelling to Russia, Canada, New Zealand and Europe. This is mainly because of the weakening of currencies in the regions.According to the CEO of a travel website, a weak foreign economic climate has a lot of chances to provid...

Indians leading the skilled migrant group in the UK February 26, 2016

Indians formed the biggest group of skilled employees to be issued visas to reside and work in the UK previous year. According to the statistics released.The National Statistics Office of the UK had informed in its report regarding migration that the citizens from India has got the majority of entire 92,062 visas gra...

Increase in number of Indian students studying in the US February 25, 2016

According to the US Consul General, Philip Min, India is now standing second after China as the nation of origin for the most overseas students in the US and India is outpacing China’s increase in this area.He informed that the number of students from India who are pursuing education in the US has increased by 30% ...

Government extends e-tourist visa scheme to 37 additional countries February 25, 2016

The Indian Home Ministry would extend the e-tourist visa scheme to additional 37 countries from Friday, taking the total number of countries who can be benefitted to 150.The newly added countries are Austria, Albania, Botswana, Brunei, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Repu...

New Zealand has seen record number of migrant arrivals from Asia and Australia February 25, 2016

New Zealand has witnessed a latest record net gain in the number of migrants of around 65,900 during the year till the month of January. Large number of arrivals is from Asia and Australia.The yearly benefit in the migrants has set the record for the previous one and a half year. Arrivals has been increased by 105 to a...

28th Draw of Canada Express Entry System has invited 1,484 candidates February 25, 2016

For all those applicants who had sent their applications under the pool of Express Entry for Canadian permanent residency and who has been waiting for the results of present selection ranking. They don’t have to wait any more as the IRCC has conducted the 28th Draw for Express Entry System on 24th February 2016.T...

USCIS will accept H-1B petitions from the US employers February 24, 2016

The USCIS would start accepting H-1B petitions from the employers of the US during the five business days in the month of April. If USCIS gets more than the allotment of latest 85,000 H-1Bs for the year 2017 that would start from 1st October 2016, it would utilize a lottery system for selecting the petitions. It is tim...

Foreign tourist arrivals in Thailand up by 15% February 24, 2016

The Tourism and Sports Ministry of Thailand has informed that the arrivals of tourists to Thailand have reached over 3 million, with an increase of 15% in the month of January.China remains the leading market with the increase of 45% in the last month. According to the information that was released by the ministry last...

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