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The UK has stayed in third spot as the most desired country in the world for professionals to work and reside in, revealed a new study into global mobility trends. Sys-con.com reports that people who come to work in the UK end up staying longer than they had initially planned. The study, carried out by ESCP Europe for specialist recruiters...

Almost 50 per cent of aspiring entrepreneurs from the UK think they should move overseas to achieve success, reports emigrate.co.uk. An international study into the aspirations of would-be entrepreneurs carried out by accountancy firm Mazars and travel programme operator Smaller Earth showed that 46 per cent believe there is more chance...

The majority of Irish citizens who have emigrated during the past few years claim they are happier overseas than they were in Ireland, revealed the Irish Times. A survey by Ipsos MRB, carried out for the Irish Times, researched attitudes among recent emigrants, of whom are substantial majority described their quality of life as better than...

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...

Chris Bowen, the Australian immigration and citizenship minister, has announced measures which will assist Australian employers in finding skilled US workers to fill shortages within key sectors, reported workpermit.com. The new measures will ensure that skills assessments are processed much quicker. The hope is to attract more American...

Thousands of Chinese people are looking at the Canadian province of Quebec as a gateway into the North American country, according to the Associated Press. People in China who are desperate to emigrate have found a backdoor into Canada which involves applying for visas into Quebec, the country’s French-speaking province, as long as they...

New York and London will remain as the world’s most important cities for wealthy individuals during the next decade, suggests research. However, Shanghai and Beijing are viewed by high-net-worth people as the key up-and-coming cities, revealed the Citi Private Bank and Knight Frank’s Wealth Report. The research also describes the shift...

A recent poll by Gallop World has revealed that a quarter of adults in the world (1.1 billion people) want to move to another country temporarily in order to find more profitable work, revealed the Deccan Herald. In addition, 630 million other people would take up the chance of moving overseas permanently. The desire to leaves one’s home...

Tens of thousands of gay couples in the US are living with the fear of separation as federal law bans immigration authorities from treating them in the same way as they do married opposite-sex couples, reports myrtlebeachonline. In a nation where feelings on same-sex marriage and immigration are strong, the same-sex foreign-born spouses of...