The final legal obstacle preventing Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef returning to work in Australia has been removed by the federal government. Immigration Minister Chris Evans today announced he would not be launching a High Court appeal of an earlier decision by the full bench of the Federal Court which confirmed Dr Haneef's right to a work visa. Dr Haneef's visa was cancelled by Senator Evan's coalition predecessor, Kevin Andrews, for having alleged...
Onus on employer to check work visa
NZ Herald
NZ Herald
A law change will put the responsibility on employers to check that their migrant staff have valid work visas. At the moment, employers don't have to take responsibility for knowing their staff's legal entitlement to work here. But a new scheme...
Yale University: Yale University to Work With Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli Architects in Creating Ideas ...
Insurance Newsnet
Insurance Newsnet
RDATE:01052008 New Haven, Conn. -- This month faculty and students from Yale School of Architecture will join their Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli counterparts in creating a vision for the first cross-border Peace Park to be established in the...
Weary of waiting for Washington, US farm union recruits laborers in Mexico
AOL
AOL
HURON, California (AP) - Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul U.S. immigration laws, the United Farm Workers union is marching forward with a plan to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms. The union's efforts to import temporary...
Silver Spring jobs firm pleads guilty to fraud
Examiner
Examiner
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A Silver Spring employment company pleaded guilty to immigration fraud in a scheme to obtain green cards for illegal immigrants. EBI Inc., which helped find U.S. jobs primarily for Korean and Chinese immigrants, admitted in...
Silver Spring jobs firm pleads guilty to immigration fraud
The Examiner
The Examiner
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Map, News) - A Silver Spring employment company pleaded guilty to immigration fraud in a scheme to obtain green cards for illegal immigrants. EBI Inc., which helped find U.S. jobs primarily for Korean and Chinese immigrants,...
Weary of waiting for Washington's farm bill, United Farm Workers recruits laborers in Mexico
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
HURON, Calif. - Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms. The union's efforts to import temporary workers under an existing...
Work Visas: Lose the Lottery
MSNBC
MSNBC
The H-1B system needs an overhaul. For now, let's award visas to the highest-paid foreign workers and top graduates from top U.S. schools By By Vivek Wadhwa The U.S. government will use a random computer lottery to determine which of 163,000...
Dramatic increase in employers prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER - There has been a major increase in the number of employers prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants. The BBC has found that in the two months since a change in the law came into effect at the end of February, 137 firms have...


