Immigrations has been a hot topic in the US for a number of years. The general debate on whether or not the US government should allow more foreigners into the country is one that is not an easy decision to make. However, there are positives and negatives to this. For example, it can help grow the economy by showing support to countries that are currently in war or have a large number of refugees isolated.

President Obama has said that comprehensive changes to US immigration laws are a "moral imperative", and that immigration reform can also improve the US economy and national security. As America was built as a nation of immigrants, it seems hypocritical to turn away from open immigration policies today.

Obama said that the US needs to bring illegal immigrants out of the underground economy while it also bolsters border security. The president will continue his campaign for immigration reform with interviews at the White House with three Spanish-language TV stations. Senate Democrats are renewing their push for legislation allowing some younger illegal aliens to gain legal status, in an appeal to the large Latino voting block. Republicans in both houses of Congress oppose this immigration measure, and blocked the so-called "Dream Act" in the Senate last year.

A Jamaican Senate bill will exempt certain categories of Caribbean Community (Caricom) nationals from the country's work permit requirement. The changes are in keeping with Chapter Three of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, which establishes Caricom and the Caricom Single Market and Economy.

Some categories of workers who will be exempted from work permits include self-employed persons, nurses, teachers, those who hold associates degrees, artisans with vocational qualifications and household domestics. The bill was also amended to limit the exemptions to those who are seeking long term work in Jamaica rather than temporary assignments or business. There will also be an increase in fines and penalties for breaches of the work permit requirements. For example, the current fine to an employer for hiring a foreign national without a work permit is $200, but this will be increased to $500,000 under the new law.

Hyderabad has made a huge progress over the last four years but in spite of all the transformation, the one thing that hasn't changed is the embarrassing condition of the city's passport office. Almost all Hyderabad citizens have reported that their battle for a passport has gone from worse to worst over the years.
Even the law hasn't been able to help the citizens as they come back disappointed most of the time. Moreover, these courts are supposed to solve public concerns and quicken the process of issuing a passport. The official norms say that a passport applied through regular process should be delivered within 30 working days. This scheme has failed as the passport applicants regret that their wait for the passport has become longer.

A major programming error at the US State Department resulted in all 22,000 winners of this year's green card lottery being nullified. The department apologized for the massive blunder, which was discovered after the names of this year's Diversity Lottery winners had already been posted to the State Department website.

The results were voided because they "did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants, as required by US law." Between 12 to 15 million people from around the world apply for a green card each year, and of those 50,000 to 55,000 receive green card visas. The programming error caused more than 90% of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period. The department has fixed the glitch and will redo the lottery drawing later this year with the help of a new random selection algorithm.

The state of Georgia has proposed immigration reform that would require employers of 10 or more workers to verify their employee's immigration status by checking whether they have a green card through the federal E-Verify database. However, the law features a major loophole in that employers with less than 10 workers are exempt.

In businesses like landscaping, which use a lot of illegal labor, there are many small contractors who would slip through this crack and could continue to operate using illegal labor, underbidding all of the legal American contractors due to their cheaper labor costs. Others argue that the law should be changed to make it easier for those who are working in the US illegally to gain legal status, because they are doing something beneficial for society and thus should not be treated like criminals.

It is now possible for workers to secure work permits and visas in the Philippines Subic Bay Freeport (SBF) zone in just 16 hours, with the establishment and full operation of the Immigration One-Stop-Shop. The speedy facilitation, processing and issuance of work permits and visas are the result of automating the entire process, with the goal of encouraging more foreign investors to locate in the Freeport.

The One-Stop-Shop in the SBF is staffed by a composite team form Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the Bureau of Immigration and the Department of Labor and Employment. The Philippine government says that the ultimate goal of making the zones more business friendly and attracting foreign investment is to speed up the transfer to modern technology to local workers, and to establish a world class logistics hub in the area.

Since this year Department Of Education recruited teachers from different countries on cultural-exchange visas, which have to be renewed every year, gave a real hard time to Green card holders. DOE announced that the new recruits from Caribbean will be given permanent US residency but only 276 out of 700 immigrants have become permanent residents.

Shirleth Johnson-Scott, third grade teacher shared with the Daily News that they felt they were just used and thrown away. According to immigrant rules there is always a limit in the number of Green cards given to the company sponsored workers every year. Also the federal government has given all the visas available, the remaining teachers had to get J-visas and unfortunately that cannot be used to apply for Green card based on work status.

New work permit will not be issued to workers who have labor cards until they leave UAE. This is according to the Ministry of Labor of UAE.

It has been reported that the issuance of a new labor card depends on the coming up of a date of departure of the worker on the electronic monitoring system of the Ministry of Labor. The mission labor card has up to three months validity.

There have been many rejections made by the Ministry including request of transfer to another company and issuance of temporary work permits. Issuance of permit may be done even if there is no approval from the previous sponsors as long as there was failure to pay more than two months worth of salary and there is an issue between the laborer and the employer.

The new Egyptian Labor Minister El-Borai has announced that he will stop issuing work permits to foreigners amid popular resentment of employers who take advantage of cheap foreign labor. He announced yesterday that he believed it was better for Egypt if locals have work in their own country, although he added that the government may still grant work permits to highly skilled foreigners who have rare skills.

The government will meet with businessmen to discuss ways of reducing the proportion of foreign workers in Egypt. Labor unions have applauded the decision, even though El-Borai is not seen as a big union supporter. The unions argue that the decision will save job opportunities for Egyptians, boost wages and prevent employers from taking advantage of foreigners by not paying social insurance or following labor laws for these employees.

The immigration department has confirmed that the emails sent to green card lottery winners requesting for money are fake. The U.S. government asks for money only once after the visa interview process begins. The immigration department has been getting mails from green card lottery entrants questioning the authenticity of such mails. One such mails asks a green card aspirant to deposit 880$ via Western Union to someone in the United Kingdom.

Turns out that the green card lottery scam has gone global. People wanting to apply for green cards are fleeced. It makes a fool out of green card aspirants, by making them believe that they have won a United States diversity Visa and they have to pay money upfront to get it.