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Bigger numbers have led a flow-on for skilled migration and work visas. India provides the most new international students to New Zealand as well as the second largest amount of skilled migrants, found a report by the Department of Labour. In 2011, 13 per cent of all skilled migrants to the country were from India, a rise of eight per cent...

In order to fill vacancies in the mining industry, Australia is permitting those with the right qualifications to emigrate by applying to the General Skilled Migration Programme. A mining engineer who has recently graduated can pull in a salary of around A$100,000 per year. In order to obtain an Australian visa, applicants will have to...

A new study suggests that it is often easier to emigrate alone rather than with a partner. The survey has been conducted by Aiden Tabor and Dr Taciano Milfont her advisor at the Victoria University of Washington in New Zealand and it looks at the attitudes of those moving to the country from the UK. The results are that it is quite common...

Engineers who are looking to move to Australia to fill lucrative positions should consider applying before 1 July this year in order to be ahead of a change of rules in the General Skilled Migration Programme. Australia currently has a need for qualified mining engineers. Graduates in the profession can expect to earn in the region of...

The British Embassy is concerned over the new SGK healthcare scheme of the Turkish Government, in particularly the affects it may have on some expats. In a statement, the Embassy wrote that it is aware of the “concern in the community” over new healthcare requirements imposed by the Turkish authorities on certain foreign nationals,...

As reported by BBC News, increased amounts of elderly professionals have been trading the UK or their homelands for a life abroad. Ulrich Roehren, a German citizen aged 62, has waited the majority of his working life just to fulfil one plan and told of how he always dreamed of being able to work abroad but never got the chance to do so,...