Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP) is the program initiated by the Government of Alberta to bring in foreign skilled migrants to contribute to the economy of Alberta. It can surely help you out in your Canada immigration process. The AINP is in association with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).

There are various categories for immigrants under which an applicant can apply for. And one of the categories is the Compulsory Trades Category. The category caters to increase the pool of permanent labor in Alberta. This in turn aids for more people being invited who can work for occupations under the Compulsory Trade category.

The eligibility criteria for this category are the following:

• One must possess the evidence or proof of the successful completion of qualification certificate program with the Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT).
• One must also have the necessary qualifications for the compulsory trade and must possess some proof or a certificate of qualification.
• An invitation letter from the Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT) is mandatory to apply under this category.
• Letter of invitation are granted by AIT when the candidate successfully completes the Qualification Certificate Examination for the compulsory trade.
• Foreign nationals who are living in Alberta and have an Alberta Qualification Certificate in a Compulsory Trade can apply for AINP even if the applicant does not have an application from an employer of Alberta.
• An applicant must be able to convince about his abilities and intentions to reside in Alberta permanently.
• An applicant must have a proof that he is living in Alberta.
• An applicant must be working with an employer of Alberta or must have worked with in Alberta for at least two years.

If you are planning to settle in Alberta and fulfill the above criteria for this particular category, then your chances to get migrated to Alberta are quite high. For further information, you can contact any immigration and visa consultancy for professional help and guidance.

Denmark offers permanent residence programs for foreign nationals who would want to live and work in Denmark. In order to qualify under the Danish Green Card, the applicant has to earn a minimum of 100 points. The criteria for eligibility includes age, work experience, language skills, adaptability as well as educational qualifications. If qualified and scored the above points, an applicant can obtain a permanent residence for a period of three years. More so, the immigrant is permitted to bring his family along.

However, the criteria for eligibility tend to vary based on the country of the applicant. If the applicant is a Nordic citizen, then the immigrant would be free to reside, study as well as work in Denmark. For a citizen of a nation belonging to the European Union or if he is a Swiss national, his admission would be subject to the rules as brought out by the EU regarding the freedom of movement. He might even have to follow certain specific rules.

On the other hand, if the immigrant has already obtained a residence permit for Denmark on grounds of asylum or family reunification basis or on humanitarian grounds, in such cases, the immigrant need not require a work permit to be employed in Denmark.

As mentioned above, an applicant must score atleast 100 points on the various eligibility criteria. With this, he must have complete health insurance which covers the immigrant as well as his family till he is covered by the Danish National Health Insurance.

While applying, it is mandatory the applicant to have enough resources to support himself during the first year of residence in the nation. He must prove this with relevant documentation. This could include recent bank statements in the applicant’s name stating the currency and date of issue.

Incase of applying for a residence permit for the accompanying family, it is important to document evidence that the immigrant is able to support his family members. This proof should either be in the name of the immigrant or his spouse/partner’s name.

Last but not least, it is one of the important conditions that the immigrant does not receive any form of public assistance as mentioned in the Active Social Policy Act during his residence in Denmark.

The Ontario Provincial Nominee Program allows Ontario employers recruit overseas skilled workers, as well as lets foreign nationals to live permanently in the province under two categories- General and International Student Categories. Let us discuss a few things about the student category.

The International Student Category is divided into three sub-categories. They are:

• PhD Graduate Stream: Under this stream, Ontario’s PNP allows foreign students who have graduated with PhD degree from an Ontario university to file for permanent residency, however, university must be a public institution! The students who fall under this stream are not required to have a job offer from an Ontario employer. All they need to do is to file the Nominee Application for International Graduates with the Opportunities Ontario. They can apply for the permanent residence status within 2 years of receiving the PhD degree.
• Pilot Masters Graduate Stream: Under this, international students who have earned masters degrees from any of the public universities in Ontario can apply for permanent residency. Like PhD graduates, students with an Ontario masters degree do not need to have a job offer to apply for the permanent residency in Ontario. They are eligible to apply for the same right from their last semester of the course. Else, they can apply within 2 years of receiving their degrees. They are required to fill the same application form as the PhD students.
• With Job Offer Stream: This stream lets Ontario employers to hire international students who have graduated from publicly funded Ontario universities in order to fill a skilled job position. When it comes to Ontario employers, they make use of this stream. Under this, Ontario allows them to hire international skills in order to fill the job positions.

When employers want to recruit international skills in job positions, all they need to do is to file a pre-screen application with Opportunities Ontario requesting positions for which they want international skills. Once, the employers get the approval, the students who have been recruited are required to submit a nominee application to the Opportunities Ontario. At both stages, those applications are processed first that arrive first.

For more information on Canadian Provincial Nominee Programs, seek the help of an ace Immigration and Visa Consultant!

Opportunities Ontario is the name given to Ontario’s Provincial Nominee Program, which facilitates the Canadian province to nominate overseas skilled people for permanent residence status. In other words, the program is designed to help Ontario employers to find and hire the required skills from the overseas market to work for them in Ontario. The program is like a boon to Ontario employers as it gives them the liberty to hire the skilled workers they require.

Ontario Provincial Nominee Program enables employers to file applications in order get the approval to employ overseas skilled workers in full-time Ontario job positions; and hire overseas skilled workers to fill those positions. The employers who get the approval can recruit foreign nationals through two different categories, viz.:

• Foreign workers through the General Category and
• Foreign students through the International Student Category

On the individuals or workers part, Opportunities Ontario is the way to immigrate and work, thereby obtaining permanent residency in the province. However, it is not that easy as it sounds. In order to be able to immigrate under the Ontario Provincial Nominee Program, overseas workers and students need to have a full-time job offer from an Ontario employer. Further, the offer must be from a participating employer in the program, as well as the job title of an individual must be approved by the Opportunities Ontario. However, foreign students are exempted from the requirement of a full-time job offer, given they have a PhD/Masters degree from any of the Ontario publicly funded universities.

Recently, a gang of criminals were arrested in Northern Virginia by the US Immigration Authorities. It was a group of about thirty members and associates carrying out their illegal criminal activities in Northern Virginia. All the members of the group were foreign nationals according to the information revealed by the federal officials.

Amongst all these thirty gang members, twenty nine of them were men and one was a woman. Only one of them belonged to the US and the rest of them are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. The gang members were targeted by the US immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during the three-day operation. The crime of illegal immigration is on the rise and this operation was targeting the Latino gangs as MS-13, Mexican Pride and Southside men.

Those who got arrested were deported from the country previously but they again entered the nation illegally. Various charges have been pressed against them including assault, possessing a concealed weapon, destruction of property and illegal migration. They will be deported from the United States after receiving their persecution for their criminal activities.

To reduce the criminal activities in the country, especially the ones being committed by foreign illegal immigrants, ICE will now be working closely with the law enforcement partners. This has been said by Scott Rittenberg, an official from the ICE’s Office of Homeland Security Investigation. These gangs are known for carrying out criminal activities catering to drugs and violence in the province. Their arrest is surely going to save the community from further troubles and inconveniences caused by their doings.

Sports craze is something which does not leave anybody especially when it is football. Football lovers go to any extent to enjoy their favorite sport. The fun of watching live game inside the stadium can not be matched with watching the same game on small screen. So, during sports season, commuting of sports lovers becomes increasingly high leading to heavy traffic of immigrants inside the host country.

The most recent example is of increasing migration in South Africa in the month of June as the football world cup is going on. The home affairs department of South Africa has claimed that immigration in South Africa is 32 percent more in comparison to the immigration in the same month last year. The reason for sudden increase of foreigners applying for visa is due to World Cup fever.

On an average, around 744,520 foreign nationals have commuted to South Africa starting from first week of June only. Amongst all the countries, the major five nationalities who entered the territory of South Africa are Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique and Lesotho.

Other than these, other countries are United States, Germany, Australia, France, Zambia, Argentina, Netherlands, Mexico and Britain from where people are migrating. Except Zambia, all other countries have their teams competing in the world cup. Recent data by the home minister department has revealed that around 13,638 immigrants have violated the rules of South African immigration. Amongst these people, there are many who stayed after the expiry of their visa or made the illegal use of temporary resident visa. Around 140 candidates has been stopped at airport only who were about to take the flight for South Africa because their passports and visas were declined.

A Hamilton-based duo was found guilty of operating an unlawful immigration racket in Canada. They are being accused for violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada for misleading people with wrongful deeds. The persons in question are Ferenc Domotor and Gyongyi Kolompar, who engaged themselves in misleading 2 foreign citizens. The accused asked the foreigners to conceal their identity and indulge in misrepresenting their information in front of the immigration authorities.

Moreover, one of the accused has also been charged with providing employment to the two men who fell victim of the former as unauthorized persons. However, the accused are were expecting a bail hearing on June 10. The case involving Kolompar and Domotor is being taken care of by the Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Immigration Department and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The case is treated under human trafficking investigation.

There have been many cases in Canada where foreign nationals are lured by employment promises, as well as high wages and accommodations by many human traffickers. But, when the former arrive Canada they are being used to work for free and lead poor lives.

Human trafficking is a major offense in Canada and those tend to violate the country’s regulations are bound to face the challenges. AS for the victims are concerned, it is always advised to seek the help of professional authorized Immigration and Visa consultants or agents in order to avoid unfortunate situation in the foreign country.

All prospective UK immigrants out there, you should be very careful while hiring the services of a consultant, as well as you must have the proper knowledge of the UK government immigration services. In order to avoid undesired circumstances, it is advised to have the know-how of all this stuff. Recently, the UK Border Agency has announced that the names of its officials have been used many times in job offers to convince foreign nationals for the jobs. This clearly indicates that these job offers are false.

There have been many instances, where the name of the UKBA’s director of communications is used in order to cheat foreign nationals who want to work in the UK. However, the agency is still yet to find out the nature of the scam. From this, it is to be concluded that everyone should be watchful about such inadmissible offers at the first place, before considering them.

Here are a few things that one should know:

• Foremost, UK Border Agency is a government body that is entitled to immigration control services.
• UKBA does not have to do with offering jobs for migrants.
• An E-mail address of the UKBA will always include ‘gov’.
• Be always careful in considering any offer. You should inquire about the details of the job offering entity before making any payment.
• Avoid making payments via services like Western Union, since you may find it difficult to figure out the receiver’s name.

With the above mentioned measures, you can safeguard yourself from fraudulent job offers. In fact, these will also ensure a secure immigration process under any visa program!

While reforms to the United States’ immigration law is anticipated, the farmer community in the nation is asking for the government to pass a bill that could allow overseas workers who have engaged themselves in the US agriculture for a minimum of one-fifty days in a period of more than one year to get legal status in the nation.

The farmers have also asked the government to include higher immigrant allowance in the bill. According to them, there should also be an easier visa program, which would facilitate temporary workers to immigrate to the US and work there. In the US, the farmer community has always been asking the government to higher immigrant allowance, by emphasizing that without migrant workers the country’s agricultural production would get hampered, owing to shortage of labor.

In the United States, we can see many foreign nationals (agricultural workers) have been engaged in hand picking fruits and vegetables and animal husbandry in many farms. Most of foreign agricultural workers are employed to do stuff that Americans do not want to do. And mostly, these workers are appointed on seasonal basis. According to estimates, more than half of the crop workers hired in the US between 2005 and 2007 were illegal workers and most of them were from Mexico.

If the farmers’ suggestion is accepted by the government, it will definitely help the country in its production, as well as it might reduce the entrance of illegal workers in the United States.

Followed by an intelligence-gathering exercise by the UK Border Agency, two foreigners were arrested based on the ground of illegal immigration. This is like one of those many cases where foreign nationals broke the immigration rules of the UK. Both the alleged foreigners were from Bangladesh.

The UK Border Agency officials seized an Indian restaurant, named Spice Club which is located in Torwood Street on Wednesday, where they found one of two Bangladeshis guilty of illegal immigration. And during the raid at the restaurant worker’s resident in Babbacombe Road, the officials found the other Bangladeshi. He was also being arrested for the same offense. Currently, the restaurant worker is in the police custody, while the latter is in the immigration detention.

The UK Border Agency is looking forward to deport the person in detention to his home country. Besides, the Indian restaurant was given a civil penalty notice by the UKBA. The officials warned Spice Club that if the latter is not able to provide the appropriate documents pertaining to the appointment of the restaurant worker, they would be required to pay a fine up to £10,000.

Reportedly, the owner of the same restaurant was once imposed with a £5,000 civil penalty two years back for employing an illegal worker. There have been many cases of illegal entry of foreign nationals to the UK. And UK Border Agency has so far been successful in identifying these rule breakers and deporting them to their home countries!