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Immigration Information     Immigration critic calls Canada “Super Visa” a shamThere has been much discussion about the Canadian Conservative government’s new “Super Visa” in the community recently, but unfortunately it has turned out to be an insult to families desperate for their parents to visit or migrate to Canada. Filipino migrants ‘taken to the cleaners’ in Canada by fake visa adviserThe Star.com reports on a Filipino dry cleaner who is literally taking migrants ‘to the cleaners’ charging $5000 a time for a Canadian visa. Immigration News weekly round up 03 July 2011Immigration News weekly round up 03 July 2011 UK Border Agency announce rules to extend of stay for skilled workers in ‘closed’ work schemesThe UK Border Agency is setting up new arrangements for skilled workers who came here under work routes, such as Work Permits, or schemes that have now closed, in order to extend their stay in the UK to a total of 5 years. Immigration News Weekly Round up 26 June 2011Immigration News Weekly Round up 26 June 2011 UK Border Agency leads massive countrywide anti-trafficking raidsNine people have been arrested following a UK Border Agency-led operation targeting a crime gang suspected of trafficking sex workers around Britain, the agency announced this week. In one of the biggest operations of its kind ever undertaken in the UK, around 150 officers from the UK Border Agency and eight different police forces carried out simultaneous raids on 13 different addresses around the South and East of England. Eight arrested in Bangladesh visa forgery factory raidEight people were arrested after a fake visa discovered by a UK Border Agency officer in the capital Dhaka was traced back to the forgers’ base in the city of Sylhet in north east Bangladesh. Visa scam warningThe UK Border Agency has issued a warning to potential migrants to guard against being duped by scammers demanding cash in return for dealing with immigration cases. FILIPINO ASSOCIATION IN CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE WELCOME IMMIGRATION ADVISERS FOR STUDENT VISA GUIDANCEWinchester based group the ‘Filipino Association in Central Hampshire’, headed by Glenbert Moday, welcomed Immigration Advisers UK to deliver a seminar last month on the problems faced by students when renewing their Tier 4 visas. Tamil migrant fights Canadian deportation orderAn asylum seeking passenger, who arrived in Canada on the ‘MV Sun Sea’ ship and was later refused after admitting that he was a member of the Tamil Tigers, said he will not give up on his dream of living in Canada even though he’s been ordered deported, the man’s lawyer said Wednesday. Share                                                 |