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Immigration
The UK government claims it will save millions of points by scrapping the appeal against a refusal of a visa for a short visit to family or friends.
A British expat family was this week deported from Bermuda despite having lived there for 20 years, as the Caribbean Island starts to enforce policies designed to address the growing problem of unemployment among native Bermudans.
The UK Border Agency has announced that visa applications submitted in several countries are being delayed.
Staff patrolling UK borders who are members of the Immigration Services Union and Civil and Public Services Association trade unions have joined an estimated 400,000 public sector workers in striking for a day today in protest at planned changes to their pensions.
Canada's Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has begun a programme of consultations in the country over whether the country should embark on a new programme aimed at attracting entrepreneurs from overseas.
Just before a bank holiday is the worst possible time for one of the UK Border Agency's main computer systems to crash – but that's exactly what happened late last week.
Long queues at London's Heathrow Airport during April resulted in the agency in charge of immigration control missing its targets for the time taken for processing non-EU passport holders.
Immigration workers who patrol the UK's borders are to walk out on strike next Wednesday.
Revenue raised by the UK government from its tax on each airline ticket sold in this country should be used to pay to recruit more guards for border patrols, a top airline boss has said.
Former owner of the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Conrad Black, is due to be released from jail on Friday, but he still does not know whether he will be allowed to return to his native Canada.
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