ERICA CERVINI
October 25, 2009
UNIVERSITY bureaucrats would have danced a jig just over a week ago when a survey showed that international students rated Australia safer for study than the US or Britain.
The news follows months of damning headlines, particularly in India, about violence against international students and low-quality courses. (more…)
I thank Y-Axis for helping me out and providing me with robust support for my case. I being issued a visa after two refusals itself speaks volumes of the tremendous amount of capability of my consultant Maheshwar and Riyaz, and their valuable input and insight in to my case. With a steady communication and clarity , geographical boundaries have been made ineffective . (more…)
The Renaissance in Europe owed a tremendous debt to the inventions that Marco Polo (1254-1324), his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo brought back to Venice from their twenty four years of travel in China:
“[Upon their return from China], the three Polos received respect from their fellow citizens, with Marco singled out for special attention. ‘All the young men went every day continuously to visit and converse with Messer Marco,’ Giambattista Ramusio claimed. ‘who was most charming and gracious, and to ask of him matters concerning Cathay (China) and the Great Khan, and he responded with so much kindness that all felt themselves to be in a certain manner indebted to him.’ (more…)
Thanks to our pulse on the global migration opportunities, Y-Axis is the first in the market to present the opportunity to work and settle in France. We take great pride in saying there is no other consultant in India promoting this product. It is a first from Y-Axis because of our continuous research & drive to ensure that we are the pioneers in the business. We present to you - France’s Skills & Talents Permit.
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Unlike much of Europe, France is an immigrant nation, the number of immigrants having risen from one million in 1881 to 2 million by 1962 to 3.7 million by 1982. (It has dropped a bit since then.) It is estimated that 20 percent to 25 percent of the present population has an immigrant background.
But being a French citizen means you’re not categorized as African French or Southeast Asian French or West Indian French; you’re just plain French. That’s the republican ideal, citizenship bestowing theoretical equality, belying the reality of racism. French schoolchildren are steeped in the concept of a single France. The law actually forbids taking a census according to ethnic or racial categories.
Ready or Not, France Opens Museum on Immigration
Comment:
The French are facing problem with its new citizens with various backgrounds especially the uneducated Muslims from Africa . They don’t know the size of the problem because their citizenship form prohibits asking for details like religion.
U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON for the NYT on October 12, 2009
DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.
New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper
Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas. (more…)
Read a good article on illegal immigrants in Paris today.
Here is the background, statistics and analysis.
Background:
France has a problem with illegal immigrants who come in from Africa and other parts of the world. Just south of the border of France lies Algeria which was once its colony.
Statistics:
Government estimates have placed France’s illegal immigrant population near 400,000; the country has deported over half that number in the past two decades, official statistics show. President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in 2007 with a pledge to stiffen immigration policies; his government is aiming to expel 27,000 sans-papiers in 2009, about triple the annual average from 10 years ago.
But France remains relatively generous compared with other European nations. The country awards citizenship to about 150,000 applicants annually, which ranks it second in the European Union. In 2008, it received and granted more asylum requests than any other nation on the continent, according to government and United Nations numbers.
Analysis:
The French believe that it is better to bring in professional migrants from India than having uneducated and unskilled migrants who are mostly illegal. That is why they introduce visas like the Talent & Skills Permit. (more…)
Monday, 05 October 2009
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has named Canada as a model to other countries on how to accept new immigrants and migrant workers.
In a report entitled Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, UNDP ranks Canada among a small group of countries with generally fair and open policies that benefit both immigrants and their new home country. (more…)
Punjabi is set to become the fourth most widely-spoken language in Canada by 2011, after English, French and Chinese, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada Minister Jason Kenney said on Friday.
The 2006 census by the Canadian government revealed that Punjabi is currently the sixth most-widely spoken language in Canada, after English, French, Chinese, German and Italian. However, Punjabi is set to overtake German and Italian over the next four years. (more…)
Instead of pursuing a career in scientific research, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize [ Images ] in chemistry with two others, would perhaps have practised medicine, but for a sudden impromptu trip of his father.
More than four decades ago, Venkatraman, then a Baroda resident, got the national talent award after finishing his high school. Venkatraman, known as Venky to his friends and colleagues, also got admission at the Baroda Medical College. (more…)