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Ireland’s unemployment figure has climbed to an 18-year high, revealed official data released for June. But the figure has been somewhat kept down due to the high number of people opting to quit the country in search of better prosperity abroad. Ireland’s population is currently at 4.5 million. The Central Statistics Office revealed...

Thirty-one men were arrested in Motobas, Kafr al-Sheikh, on Monday for planning to immigrate to Italy illegally. Major General Salah Okasha, the director of the security department in Kafr El-Sheikh, was informed by Motobas police that someone had complained about suspicious activity in the house of a neighbour. A team of officers, headed...

Women working abroad are most likely to young, childfree and single with just 15 per cent of women working overseas aged above 40 in comparison with almost 50 per cent of men, revealed recent research. Some 36 per cent of expat females who live abroad are aged between 21 an 30, while just 17 per cent of men fall into this age group....

Seven illegal immigrants from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who were discovered in the waters off East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, last year have been deported back to their countries of origin. Immigration officials said that the people were en route to Asmore Reef, Australia, in the hope of being granted asylum when they were arrested by...

The US Citizenship and Immigration Service has started the first stage of its new online immigration benefits system. The new-look system, the USCIS ELIS, has been developed to modernise the adjudicating and filing immigration benefits process. Individuals will be able to create an account and make an online application to change or extend...

The UAE’s Indonesian Ambassador Salman Al Farisi wants to see the amount of his countrywomen working in the UAE as housemaids fall by 15 per cent over the next three years. Mr Al Farisi said that this could be the first step in stopping unskilled workers finding employment in the country altogether. He said that he hoped for more...

Beijing has adopted several measures to ensure it is easier for non-citizens to obtain resident visas, according to sources within the Chinese capital’s police force. Chinese law states that any foreigner living in the country’s urban areas has to make their residence registration application at a local police station within the first...

The UK’s Home Office is discussing contingency plans to limit the amount of economic migrants arriving from Greece and other nations within the EU if the euro collapses. EU regulations permit citizens to work in any country within the region, including Britain, with the exception of two new members, Bulgaria and Romania. People looking...

Annual net migration to the UK is still at record high levels of over 250,000 per year in spite of Home Secretary Theresa May’s declared ambition to reduce it to less than 100,000 before the next election. Figures published on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the politically sensitive net migration figure...

Switzerland is bracing itself for an influx of moneyed French immigrants after Socialist Francois Hollande was victorious over Nicolas Sarkozy in the country’s presidential elections. Hollande wants to bring in a 75 per cent tax on income over one million euros as a way of combating the budget shortfall in France. The levy could drive...