According to researchers, by 2051, Britain would be comparatively more diverse than what it is today. Ethnic minorities are expected to make for one-fifth of the population in Britain. As per the experts at the University of Leeds, the ethnic minority groups would increase to about twenty percent in 2051 from the eight percent in 2001. With this, the study also says that the population would jump to 78 million from 59 million in 2001.

It is also being predicted that these ethnic minority groups would migrate to more prosperous areas from the most deprived localities. More so, the black and the Asian population are expected to rise by large numbers.

At the same time, the White British and Irish groups are being assumed to grow at a much slower rate. When compared, there are higher chances of immigration by Other Whites to grow the fastest. This is especially being contributed to by the European people, people from the US and the Australasia walking in to UK.

It is also being predicted that there would be a fall in the total number of white people in UK. This is going to fall to 79% in 2051 from the 90% in 2009. In the meantime, immigrant groups from South Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are expected to grow very much.

This study took 3 years to be completed and projects the annual population till 2051 for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. At the same time, it is very difficult to predict exactly how people move in and out of a nation.

In order to conclude on the findings, existing data of sixteen different ethnic groups were used to generate a computerized model. This model was used to set a trend on ethnic population for the future under various circumstances.

English language schools in Britain have finally got the response in their favor from the court over opposing the UK government’s stricter visa regulations for international students which require them to have a good standard of English before entering the UK. In other words, the UK’s Labor government (previous) has set the regulation that overseas students who want to take up English language courses in Britain are required to have a standard proficiency of the language before they enter the nation for the courses. This is the rule opposed by many English language education providers, who think the rule is absurd and it is a threat to the businesses.

The UK’s language teaching association, English UK took the initiative to challenge the new rule, on a legal field, which is believed to have tightened by then Home Secretary Alan Johnson as part of the plan to discourage illegal immigration. But, the English UK opposed the rule, saying that the decision to have such a regulation is wrong on the part of government without mentioning it in the Parliament.

Finally the High Court Judge declared that the Labor Home Secretary should not have introduced the regulations that prevent the foreign aspirants from entering the UK for their English courses study. The English UK group is quite satisfied about the Judge’s decision.

English UK is constituted of 440 language schools across the United Kingdom. They found it very ridiculous that government wanted overseas students to have minimum of GCSE level of English proficiency before they enter the nation to study ‘English’. The association believes the Judge’s decision will help businesses as well as the UK economy to evolve, keeping the fact in mind that English language sector accounts for almost 1.5 billion euro of the foreign earnings per year.

After United Kingdom, it is time for Canada to put limit on immigration numbers! Yes, Canada has decided to cap the number of immigrants that enter the country. The country’s immigration department is all set to consider only a total number of 20,000 immigration applications under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (pints-based). The cap will be reached for the year till June 2011.

While announcing the cap, the Canadian immigration minister said that the country hopes to recover the economy with the implementation of the change. The department is trying to adjust this year’s immigration plan in order to make the country’s economy recover.

Alongside, there are also changes to the Canadian favored skills list. As part of the changes, the immigration department has eliminated a few job titles from the list, including financial managers, mining engineers, university professors and occupational therapists. Some job titles have been included to the list. They are- architects, pharmacists, dentists and social workers. The limited number of applications that will be considered by Immigration Canada under this scheme is going to be 1000 for each occupation.

Apart from this, the immigration department has set stricter language requirements for new immigrants. People who are going to apply for a Canadian visa will be required to show the results of an English/French language test which they have taken up on their petition. This will facilitate the immigration officials to assess the true abilities of the applicants. Earlier, applicants applying for immigration to Canada were just required to provide the immigration department with a written submission, when it was found that some applicants used another person’s writing sample, making it harder for the authorities to determine the true language ability of the applicants. With the new language requirement, the immigration department hopes to attract the right candidates to the country.

Of late, Melbourne has emerged as the hot favorite destination among tourists who come to the land of Kangaroos. The city has outdone the most popular Australian city. According to the figures released for the 12 months to March this year, by the Tourism Australia, over the last ten years, Melbourne’s interstate visitor numbers plummeted by 22 percent, which made up over 4 million tourists to the city in a year.

On the other hand, Sydney’s tourist numbers went down 15 per cent to make it 3.3 million a year. Even though Melbourne has defeated Sydney with its numbers of tourists, the latter still remains the bigger tourism market, especially when it comes to international tourists.

Last year which ended April 2010, around 5.7 million foreign tourists visited the land of Kangaroos. The figure is an increase of 2 per cent from the previous year. Australia has always emerged a popular tourist destination. The Oz cities like Sydney and Melbourne are some of those cities that attract some of the biggest tourist crowds that visit the nation every year. Australia has an endless numbers of tourist attractions. People across the globe visit the land of Kangaroos for a number of reasons. Apart from tourists, overseas people also find Australia as one of the favorite destinations to immigrate. The nation is in the league with the likes of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, where majority of the world immigrant population go and settle there.

If you are one of those who have been planning to immigrate to Australia, contact an Immigrant and Visa Consultant!

In the coming days, it would be harder for failed asylum seekers in Australia to claim refugee status further in New Zealand, since both the countries have recently signed a memorandum to share fingerprints of the refuge seekers.

Australia and New Zealand agreed to bond into the memorandum during the ongoing Five Country Conference, in London. The conference consisted of immigration agencies from countries viz. the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. This new measure would help the immigration agencies of both the countries checking fingerprints information.

Thus, in the future when people will apply for refugee status in the Kiwi land, the immigration officials would compare their fingerprints to those which were taken in Australia, given the same people sought asylum in the country. If the fingerprints do not match at all, no further checks will be done or the person may be considered for the asylum status. But, if the fingerprints match, further checks, such as if the person has tried to seek asylum in Australia, would be carried out. Seeking asylum status in the second country before applying for the same in the New Zealand is not acceptable.

The Kiwi Immigration Minister said that sharing the fingerprints between the two countries would help the immigration officials determine the identity of the people. This would also help the officials to carry out the immigration procedures more efficiently.

For more information on New Zealand immigration, contact an Immigration and visa Consultant!

Canada has currently joined the league of popular immigration destinations around the world where immigration is accountable for population growth. The Statistics Canada revealed that the country current population is over thirty-four million. As per the figures stated by the agency, until April 1, the country recorded a population of 34,019,000.

Canada’s big population is a contribution of migrants from across the world. Reportedly, the official figure recorded in April was up 88,000 from the figure recorded in early this year. Big population, mostly contributed by immigration has been a concern for many countries like the Australia and the United Kingdom. But, it seems Canada is not that concern about the issue of growing population, instead the country is concerned about its aging population.

The Canadian government has recently implemented measures to attract more and more overseas skilled migrants to the country. Because, the country strongly believes that immigrants make an integral part of the country who contribute to the country’s society and economy.

Almost every province in the country saw population increase in 2010’s first quarter. Out of the all, provinces in the west have experienced higher population growth. One of the provinces is Saskatchewan, which recorded the largest quarterly population growth since the year 1972. Exception is Nova Scotia where there was no record of people immigrating during the quarter. Moreover, there was no population increase in the province, which is the result of more deaths and fewer births.

The increasing number of inhabitants in Canada surely indicates that the country’s policy to encourage more and more people to immigrate and work is working so far, especially in its Western provinces!

With Australia tightening its immigration rules and making amendments in its occupation list, students from all over the globe are thinking US and UK as their prospective study destination. Chinese students are not lagging behind too.

The student recruiters in China are pacing up in sending the students to US and UK, seeing the less stringent rules as compared to Australia. Further, other aspects like racial attacks and closing down of certain private institutions have resulted in the increased popularity of US and UK with regard to the land of Kangaroos.

Various students who recently attended the Beijing International Education Expo are of the similar view that their recruiters are eager to send them to the educational institutes in the UK or US.

True that Australia is seen as one of the most liked countries for commencing higher studies, but the students have confirmed that Tier 4 UK visas and US F1 are easier ways to gain entry in the concerned countries a compared to Aussie land, that is what these students have to say on the issue.

Critics believe that students are still eager to make Australia as their study destination but with the crack down of lower level of courses, students are gradually running away from the country. The strict qualifying criteria sometimes create delay in the immigration process, hence making it difficult for the students to commence further.

If you are one of those students, who are facing dilemmas in choosing the apt study destination, consult a Study Visa expert for more info!

While the United Kingdom is considering imposing limit on the number of migrant workers (although outside the non-European Union nations) coming to Britain, New Zealand is in no mood to take up any such step concerning the overseas migrants. The country’s Immigration Minister has confirmed that the Kiwi land is not going to put a cap on migrant workers in the near future.

Unlike Britain, which is soon going to have an interim cap on the non-European Union migrant workers, before the permanent cap is imposed on the overseas migrants in 2011; New Zealand is not in favor of having such a cap, since overseas migrants bring skills to the country, thereby helping its economy to grow, says the country’s Immigration Minister, Jonathan Coleman. New Zealand cannot take up such a step to block the overseas people with skills that it needs (which it lacks within the country, permanently) from immigrating, because they are instrumental in shaping the economy of the country.

The minister is, however, unaware of the changes taking place in Britain on the immigration front, therefore, he is not sure how the implementation of a cap on migrant workers would affect people in New Zealand who intend to immigrate to the United Kingdom and work there. As per the temporary cap on outside European Union migrants, the UK is likely to allow only 24,000 migrant workers to enter the nation until April 2011.

Those who are intending to immigrate to one of the most popular immigration destinations in the world, New Zealand, it is recommended to seek the professional services of an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

UK has come up with new immigration policy which is going to affect the Indians most. They form the largest group amongst non –European Union skilled immigrants residing in United Kingdom. Indians are going to be most affected with the limitation of 24,100 on work permits of immigrants imposed on the category of skilled workers. This policy of United Kingdom is going to be implemented from July 19 to March 31, 2011.

Theresa May, home minister of UK says that government of UK do understands the benefits from immigration to the country but there has to be a control on that. Influx of capable and talented candidates would surely contribute in the economy of the country but excess of immigration will put undue pressure on public services and country resources. Such measure by UK government is taken to avoid any rush of visa applicants for migration.

Director of Highly Skilled Migrant Program, Amit Kapadia in a statement to the press said that this cap on migration of non EU workers will affect the Indian professional the most because mostly non EU immigrants come from India only. The migration of skilled workers will go down to a large extent of about 10,000 rather than 100,000. Now the process of selection of workers will also be changed with the imposition of cap. They will now prefer those workers whose need is greatest in UK .Some reports have revealed that many high-income professionals many not be given the priority in the cap. The popularity of immigration cap increased during the election campaign especially by The Conservative Party.

UK’s home minister Theresa May is going to take a new decision of imposing a cap of 24,000 on non EU professionals between the months of July 2010 to April 2011.But her decision will be affecting many non Europeans professional who every year migrate to UK for employment purposes. Many leading professionals from India and other non European Union countries have come together to speak against this decision.

This policy will affect the lives of many Indian professional as major non European Union migrants to UK migrate from India only. This is not fair because imposing the cap of 24,000 from this month to July 2011 means UK employers can not recruit more Indians and non Europeans once the limit is reached to cap. But this decision is going to face much opposition by Asians and non EU professionals.

Indians are highest in number to be hired as employees in companies such as IT, education, medicine and other service sectors annually. So, any such cap or limit will be facing maximum opposition from UK business and industries. Forcing a cap can stop easy movement of talented, capable and creative candidates who have contributed the most in making UK a strong nation.

Representatives from Cameron government and British trade have expressed their opposition to this new policy as this would degrade the economic conditions of the nation. Because it restricts the company to recruit capable individuals from other countries whose talent and creativity help the economy to boom

UK government has said that it is not against the immigration because it has cultivated the nation culturally and has also helped in developing the economy. But it must be controlled to protect the UK citizens with unemployment and depletion of country resources.