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Lloyds TSB’s latest International Wealth survey has predicted that the number of UK nationals moving abroad is expected to go up during the two years ahead, with an increasing number considering Spain, reports This Is Tamworth. The survey revealed that roughly 19 per cent of people with investments and savings over £ 250,000 are...

The Jewish Daily Forward has reported that fewer Israelis are emigrating to the US, while an increasing number of American Jews and other Israelis living abroad are heading back to their homeland. The immigration figures will come as positive news for Israel, which has put a lot of effort into ensuring trying to persuade its citizens to...

Christchurch leaders received a boost upon the news that their earthquake-hit city has seen the number of locals moving abroad almost half from the same time last year, reports the New Zealand Herald. Mayor Bob Parker now foresees a “complete reversal” in the trend of residents leaving the city in the coming months as South Island’s...

Expat IT professionals in search of a higher quality of life overseas have been advised to try Singapore, Kobe or Japan or Hong Kong – listed as Asia’s three most liveable cities in new research by HR data provider ECA International. The company’s annual Location Ratings system, reports The Register, is designed to assist firms in...

For almost 20 years, thousands upon thousands of people from the former Portuguese colonies have flocked to the Iberian nation in the hope of a better life. However, the tide is now turning according to the Business Recorder. A large number of Portuguese people are leaving their debt-ridden country for Angola or Brazil, whose booming...

Winston Peters, the first leader of New Zealand, says heads must roll over the bureaucratic bungling which resulted in an illegal immigrant who was banned from the country still receiving $360 a week in sickness benefits, reports NewstalkZB. Salam Mansoor Abdelabbas Al-Bawi was given a six-month home detention sentence in 2008, after...

A New Democrat MP has demanded that the government of Canada overturns a decision prohibiting an Indian family, whose son lives in B.C., emigrating to Canada because their adult daughter has Down Syndrome, reports emigrate.co.uk. The son who resides in Vancouver, Kevin Patel, wanted to sponsor his relatives to enter Canada and become...

New Zealand is now one of the frontrunners in attracting Irish emigrants who are struggling to make a living in their homeland, according to the Irish Central. There were 40,000 people who left Ireland in 2011, of whom almost 2,000 have settled in New Zealand and thousands more are heading the same way. However, the different generations...

The European Commission wants to cut the red tape for drivers, but worries about fraud remain, according to the EuropeanVoice.com. The Commission wants to make it less complicated to transfer a vehicle registration from one country to another, in order to overcome one of the most common complaints of citizens who relocate to another EU...

Australian university graduates who relocate abroad to work for extended periods of time have cost the country in the region of $450m in unpaid HECS debts since the introduction of the payment scheme in 1989, revealed a new study. Australian National University academics Tim Higgins and the designer of the HECS scheme Bruce Chapman carried...