Global Visas have opened an office in Cebu city, Philippines, making it the 7th office the company now has world-wide.
Here at Global Visas we are very excited about entering the Filipino market and the Asian continent. We feel that by bringing our brand of international immigration into the country we are establishing the fact that quality visa services are now available to one of the fastest growing and expanding migrant markets.
The Philippines has grown to become the 2nd largest source country for migrant workers in the world, behind Nigeria, however before now there was little in the way of access to qualified and certified immigration consultants within the country. Global Visas have now filled that void and workers wishing to migrate abroad will no-longer have to rely on under-trained and non-regulated immigration agents.
As a proponent of democracy and human rights, the Arizona state law on stopping anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant struck me as just what has been reported by the world’s media – a racial profiling law, and subsequently made me feel slightly uncomfortable with it.
This sentiment has echoed across the country with many in Congress decreeing it while TV celebrities quiz Miss USA contestants about the morality of such actions.
The resulting backlash has in all intents and prissiness been extremely one-sided. It was with this view-point that I embarked on a piece written about the law and illegal immigration in Arizona.
Sylvia Allen writes;
“People who live within 60 miles of the Arizona/Mexico border have for years been terrorized by the daily invasion of foreigners who cross their property. One rancher testified that 300 to 1,200 people per DAY come across his ranch, vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles, cutting down fences, and leaving trash everywhere. In the last two years, he has found 17 dead bodies and two copies of the Koran.
One man told of two illegal’s who came upon his property – one shot in the back and the other in the arm by drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily, this rancher listens to gun fire; during the night, it is not safe to leave his family alone, and they can’t leave their ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.”
Sounds more like a horror story to me, however, we must all pass on the same privilege of democracy being granted to the individuals protesting the law as to those supporting it. It is in this vein that people who have real concerns and fears around illegal immigration should be heard. I will, however, not be printing anymore of Allen’s writing as this would be stretching the point.
The facts behind the law is that the two countries do touch and share a border, so there is a strong case of there perhaps being a problem with illegal immigrants in this area. Although I would add that might it not of been better to concentrate US immigration resources in preventing the problem rather than rounding them up afterwards?
Acutely timed considering her husband, Mr Obama, and the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, had just been talking about the immigration law. Coincidence?
It appears that US immigration and the effects of illegal immigration are far-reaching indeed. So with Barack Obama apparently reluctant to press for immigration reform with only 6-months to go before the mid-term elections, it appears that the daughters and sons of those here illegally will have to contend with the worry of their parents plight for a little longer.
The minister for immigration in Australia yesterday announced the new skilled occupation list (SOL), this is a direct response to what he felt to be a previous emphasis on education rather than skills that could be utilised by employers.
The list previously consisted of over 400 occupations, it has now been cut to just 180. The new skills list is coupled with Australian immigration’s decision to freeze the acceptance of Australian visa applications before the date the new list is put in place, July 10th 2010.
A new champion of immigration has emerged in the unlikely form of Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. He recently spoke out against people who feel threatened by migration.
Following the new coalition government’s decision to put a cap on yearly levels of immigration to the UK, the Archbishop announced that migrants should be seen as a gift that help our “society both to learn and to teach”. His comments were taken as a dig at his predecessor, Lord Carey of Clifton, who believed that immigration threatens “the very ethos or DNA of our nation”.
This time of the month is supposed to be full of the joys of spring, with that in mind Global Visas present a spring orientated collection of photographs from Australia. We hope it inspires you as to Australia’s beauty and the scenes you could make for yourself if you were to make your dream a reality and move to Australia.
I will leave this as an open ended question and let you the reader come to your own conclusions in regards to the answer. What is clear is that the people of Gt. Britain do not want a Labour government – that is clear, or perhaps more specifically do not want Gordon Brown running the country any longer.
This I feel was a blunder on the part of the powers within the party to allow Gordon Brown to remain, never mind the hoop-la about Labour’s UK immigration protocol, any consultation of the general publics’ views would have gleaned the fact that his self-imposed appointment was not a popular one – even before the credit-munch. IfLabour were serious about winning this election Gordon Brown should have gone a long time before.
Yesterday, all across the UK, voters in their thousands flocked to their local polling stations to vote in both local and parliamentary elections. Already the ballot papers have been collected and the numbers are coming in. And at this stage, it seems a strong possibility that the Conservative party have gained the majority of votes.
Should the Tories take power, this could mean significant changes to the current immigration system. Their manifesto clearly stated that they feel immigration numbers are too high. Under a Conservative government, we can certainly expect to see caps on yearly immigration and more stringent criteria for entering the UK.
The contentious new Arizona immigration law was passed just one week ago and it’s already whipping up a media storm big enough to draw celebrity campaigners. Pop diva and self-proclaimed ‘She Wolf’ Shakira has been sharpening her claws ready to oppose the law, which allows Arizona State police to stop and request immigrants to show their USA visa documents.
The Colombian-Lebanese singer is no stranger to campaigning for immigration reforms and is an avid activist for Latino issues. She fears the new law will unfairly target ‘hardworking Latino families’, so in hope of revoking it she will be meeting with the pro-immigration mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.
Today comes the announcement that Global Visas have been dragged into the 20th century and have their own laughing, smiling and all drums banging Facebook page.
