Sentences with phrase «immigration numbers by»

It looks like the government's plan to hammer down immigration numbers by focusing on foreign students is paying off.

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In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

According to Immigration Canada, the number of American temporary residents in this country grew by almost 15 % in 2009, and applications for work visas doubled between 2008 and 2010, hitting a record in 2010.

In our book, The Immigration Exodus, we documented a number of cases where smart immigrants with viable technology businesses were rebuffed by the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service.

These cold, hard numbers are pretty convincing, but if you're looking for more human reasons to go along with the startup visa plan, there's no shortage of stories of promising entrepreneurs desperate to create American jobs but held up by their immigration woes.

Your business management and ownership experience may make you eligible for a number of entrepreneur categories within the Provincial Nominee Programs and at the federal level, or for the business immigration programs offered by Quebec.

If you do not want other nations out number you in your land, it is either you should not allow immigration or make new laws as to Divorce and Marriages beside taking into consideration allowing polygamy if permited by the first female partner whether she is well giving birth or sick unable to give birth... You can not go on wiping reducing nations every time they exceed your populations??!

The vicar was detained in 2011 after immigration officers became suspicious because the number of weddings had increased by six a year to six a day.

After saying Australia needs to cut immigration numbers, former PM Tony Abbott has been criticised by government ministers, who say he's just wrong.

Flint dismissed recent comments by Tony Blair about immigration by pointing at that both he and Gordon Brown could have attempted to reform freedom of movement while they were in Number 10.

The definitions remained fairly stable until in 2004 an efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter Gershon led to the reclassification of a large number of civil servants (mainly prisons, courts, and immigration staff) out of administration costs.

Three years later and a report by the chief inspector of borders and immigration has detailed concerns from a number of migrant organisations about the policy leading to increased homelessness and the risk of exploitation.

«The introduction of immigration checks has made racial profiling an NHS policy and already we are seeing an alarming number of people singled out and threatened by the institutions that are supposed to be caring for them.»

Spurred by fear of Trump's immigration policies, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum and crossing illegally from upstate New York into Canada.

That tells us that we must refine and smarten the points - based system that was left to us by the previous Government so that it does the job of ensuring that we get immigration numbers down to sustainable levels.

Earlier, Corbyn set out his view that people's fears about immigration could be allayed by greater funding for public services in areas of high pressure, rather than controlling the numbers of new entries.

Republicans have attacked the Democrats» opposition to new wall construction, noting that a number of prominent Democratic lawmakers had endorsed new funding in an immigration package passed by the Senate in 2013.

«Theresa May decided to go hard - nosed on immigration and it was passed by Number 10.

Increasing numbers of women are being detained at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre despite professional evidence that they are victims of torture, rape and trafficking, according to a report by the chief inspector of prisons.

They are among a number of the Windrush generation who have been threatened with deportation by the Home Office or have lost access to public services as a result of Tory changes to immigration policy - despite living legally in the UK for more than 50 years.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

BTW - I don't have any proof of # 2, so I will accept an answer that - with specific numbers - disproves # 1 - 3 by showing that the arrest and prosecution rates for non-immigration felonies / misdemeanors are as low as those for illegal immigration.

The Conservatives are turning up the volume on their promise of a EU referendum and hostility to immigration, hoping this will be enough to convince a sufficient number of Ukippers to return to the fold by 2015.

His spokesman told journalists: «He is not concerned about numbers,» adding that rather than seeking controls on immigration, Labour would seek to mitigate its effects on low - paid workers by reintroducing a «migrant impact fund».

The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for «comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America» and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.

The researchers compared their emotional expressivity results to another demographic measure of immigration — the sheer number of home countries represented by immigrants living in each of 32 countries in 2013 — and found little correlation.

The disproportionately high number of nonresident alien S&E workers effectively lowered wages and stipends, which lowered research costs and wages, according to a report by Alan Fechter and Michael Teitelbaum5 and another report by David North.3 (Fechter is president of the board of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology and Teitelbaum is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.)

In March 2004 Elena started a campaign to promote a new image of Russian women seeking marriage abroad, supported by a number of other Russian women - website owners: in opposition to the current image of Russian women seeking partners abroad portrayed as submissive, serving and sacrificing, Russian Brides Cyber Guide offers the image of Russian women as intelligent, educated and smart, who seek suitable partners and not immigration by any means.

to promote a new image of Russian women seeking marriage abroad, supported by a number of other Russian women - website owners: in opposition to the current image of Russian women seeking partners abroad portrayed as submissive, serving and sacrificing, Russian Brides Cyber Guide offers the image of Russian women as intelligent, educated and smart, who seek suitable partners and not immigration by any means.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

I hope to cast some light on the debate by providing facts and numbers on immigration — and what it means for the United States to become a «minority majority.»

An Immigration Graph Create a graph to show the number of immigrants by country of origin.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

You can see an example of what I'm talking about by clicking here to view a summary of Toronto's population and immigration numbers.

«A lot of the price inflation that you're reading about in the Canadian housing market is largely driven by lack of supply in single - family homes, strong household formation, strong immigration numbers — so demand is still there,» Mr. McKay said.

According to Eurostat [PDF], the E.U.'s pocket - protector brigade, population numbers will rise gradually over the next two decades to about 470 million, thanks mainly to immigration, before falling by 20 million people by mid-century, when immigration will no longer be able to offset rising death rates and falling birthrates.

Without positive net immigration, the number of people able to work will fall by 36 percent, from the current number of 45 million to 29 million by 2050....

The prospective scenarios proposed by this report are based on a number of hypothetical social, economical and cultural situations, among others an ageing population, a changing socio - cultural reality due to immigration, a deepening divide between the rich and the poor, the omnipresence of IT in all sectors of society, the inability of the «welfare state» to maintain its offer of public services and goods, the feminization of the legal practice, a growing focus on quality of life, new business models, a transnational practice of law and a shift in influence from the West to the East.

The anticipated net benefit is largely due to the implementation costs of the use and collection of biometrics in Canada's Temporary Residents program being partially offset by a biometric fee that would be collected, as well as the benefits derived from the number of potential criminals and persons who would contravene immigration laws that will either be stopped or deterred from coming to Canada and the number of persons making a refugee claim in bad faith who will be deterred from making a claim.

your SIN number (If the initial number is 9, you are required to provide the work permit issued to you by Canada Immigration)

New Canadians are affected by a greater number of laws, systems and bureaucracies dealing specifically with their rights and obligations, than other citizens of Canada, for example, immigration and refugee law and laws providing social benefits.

A team led by Maravela Asociaţii Partners Gelu Maravela, Alina Popescu, Marius Pătrăşcanu and Ioan Roman as well as senior tax advisor Felix Tapai contributed to the prestigious Doing Business in Europe 2015 guide, providing a complex high level overview of the Romanian legal and tax system on a large number of areas (Finance, Imports and Exports, Investment, Taxation, Business Forms, Company Law, Insolvency, Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Competition Law, Consumer Protection, Social Security, Immigration, Environment, Litigation and Arbitration).

Third party proof of English and / or French is required when the assessing the application in relation to the Comprehensive Ranking System, which is the method by which Canada's immigration department restricts the number of applications that may be filed.

It was set up as a specialist structure to cope with a heavy workload of immigration and asylum cases and reduce the number of these cases being heard by the Court of Appeal.

A record number of applications were lodged last year, mainly driven by a rise in immigration and asylum cases.

The suggestion that it should is based on an observation of Lord Bingham in Razgar... He was there expressing an expectation, shared with the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, that the number of claimants not covered by the Rules and supplementary directions but entitled to succeed under Article 8 would be a very small minority.

A political divide has arisen because developers in a relatively small number of big money centers have used an increasingly higher percentage of EB - 5 investment, without much participation by developers in other areas,» says Robert Divine, head attorney in the global immigration group of Memphis, Tenn. - based law firm Baker Donelson.