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The United Kingdom visa application process will not change despite the moving of visa application processing to its East Asia hub at the British Embassy in Manila.

British High Commissioner Simon Featherstone said today that people can still submit their application at the British Visa Application Centre here.

“It is the decision-making part of the visa issuing process that are transferring and not the application centre.

“Once the visa application is received at the VAC, it will be couriered securely (at our expense) to the British Embassy in Manila for assessment by certified entry clearance officials,” he said in a statement.

“Once the decision is made it will be couriered back again to VAC for collection from there by the applicant as is currently the case.”

Featherstone was responding to a newspaper report that the British High Commission here was moving visa application processing to Manila.

Source: Bernama

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The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen, has announced the introduction of biometrics collection for visa applicants in Syria, Malaysia, Lebanon, Kenya, Jordan and France.

Biometrics collection for Australia visa applicants will commence in Syria and Malaysia in April, and in Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon and France throughout May.

Visa applicants in these countries who submit paper application forms will need to provide a digital facial photograph and fingerprint scans at visa application centres – located in Damascus, Kuala Lumpur, Beirut, Nairobi, Amman and Paris – as part of the visa process.

People who apply online and are eligible for an electronic visa will not need to provide their biometrics at this stage.

Biometrics are already being collected in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Zimbabwe. More than 8000 overseas Australia Immigration applicants have had their biometrics collected since the commencement of the program in December 2010.

“This delivers on the government’s commitment to introduce the new technology into visa processing,” Mr Bowen said.

“Australia is working closely with like-minded governments and international organisations to better manage identity, migration and border security processes. Collecting biometrics further strengthens Australia’s border security and identity checking processes and will assist my department to verify the identity of visa applicants in any future visa encounters.”

Biometrics is collected using a quick, discreet and non-intrusive process, providing data that are widely used in the international community as an effective tool to manage visa and immigration processes, improve identity management and combat fraud.

Source: Visa Bureau

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The US would start accepting applications for H-1B visa, the most sought after work visa by Indian IT professionals, for the financial year 2012 from April one.

As mandated by the US Congress, the fiscal year cap on H-1B petitions for 2012, beginning October 1, is 65,000.

The first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of individuals with US master’s degrees or higher are exempt from this cap, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a statement yesterday.

US businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

Such workers include scientists, engineers and computer programmers among others.

Software professionals from India are said to be the biggest beneficiary of this visa.

USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received and will notify the public of the date on which numerical limit of the H-1B cap has been met, the statement said.

If USCIS receives more petitions than it can accept, it may on the final receipt date randomly select the number of petitions that will be considered for final inclusion within the cap, it said.

Source: Times of India

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Among efforts of the whole world to support Japan after the recent devastating earthquakes and tsunami, U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reminded Japanese nationals that there are certain U.S. immigration benefits available for them upon request.

Japanese is suffering many consequences after the severe earthquake

USCIS has listed a range of options that allows Japanese nationals to remain in the US because “USCIS understands that a natural disaster can affect an individual’s ability to establish or maintain lawful immigration status”, as said in the notice.

Temporary relief measures available to eligible nationals of Japan may include:

The grant of an application for change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the United States, even when the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired;

Re-parole of individuals granted parole by USCIS;

Extension of certain grants of advance parole, and expedited processing of advance parole requests;

Expedited adjudication and approval, where possible, of requests for off-campus employment authorization for F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship;

Expedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs);

Expedited employment authorization where appropriate; and

Assistance to LPRs stranded overseas without immigration documents such as Green Cards. USCIS and the Department of State will coordinate on these matters when the LPR is stranded in a place that has no local USCIS office.

Source: Migration Expert

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The coalition government has announced plans to deport migrants from outside the European Union who owe the NHS over GBP1,000, and ban them from returning until the debt has been paid off. The new reforms may also include forcing non-EU migrants to take out health insurance before they are granted a visa.

Under the plans, the NHS will offer information to the UK Border Agency so that it can identify those who owe the health service money when they submit their application to return or stay in the UK. It will also mean that UK residents can stay abroad for six months, rather than the current three, before they lose their automatic entitlement to free hospital treatment .

The changes are intended to protect public services in the UK, as well as combat problems surrounding health tourism . Damian Green, the Immigration Minister, commented “The NHS is a national health service not an international one. If someone does not pay for their treatment we will not let them back into the country.”

Anne Milton, Public Health Minister, also stated “The NHS has a duty to anyone whose life or long-term health is at immediate risk, but we cannot afford to become an international health service, providing free treatment for all.”

She added “These changes will begin the process of developing a clearer, robust and fairer system of access to free NHS services which our review of the charging system will complete.”

Source: Health Insurance

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The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) will resume its visa services on Monday. AIT is the de facto US embassy in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.

AIT temporarily suspended its visa services on Friday so that AIT staff could help with the evacuation of US citizens from Japan. It said only those Taiwanese that originally had visa interviews on that Friday would have to reschedule their appointments. AIT also said they would have extra staff on hand to handle all the appointments.

The organization expressed its gratitude to everyone for their patience.

Source: Radio Taiwan International

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Turkey is one of the EU’s most important gatekeepers to illegal migration. But a row over visas is threatening the adoption of an agreement that Brussels sees as key to controlling the growing problem of illegal migration through Turkey.

Frontex Police officers stay near the border with Turkey as they are deployed to help Greek border police control crossing of illegal immigrants to Greece and Europe near Nea Vyssa, northeastern Greece

According to the EU as many as 80,000 migrants are believed to have entered Greece from Turkey illegally. And that is why Brussels is pressing Ankara to agree to accept back people who’ve entered the EU illegally.

But Ankara says it will only agree to the so-called re-admission agreement if the EU eases visa requirements on its citizens.

“They might be two different issues, but for us they are connected,” said Selim Yenel, deputy undersecretary for Bilateral Affairs and Public Diplomacy of the Turkish foreign ministry.  “Unfortunately the EU must come to their senses. They have not done so nothing is happening on the visa question and they want us to sign the re-admission agreement. Well sorry that is not going to happen.”

Early Thursday, the Turkish government renewed its call for the European Union to remove visa requirements.

At a meeting in Ankara with the EU’s new commissioner for enlargement, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pressed the issue pointing out that the EU had waived visa requirements for three non-members – Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro – in December.

More than 45,000 migrants entered Greece illegally from Turkey last year, putting available facilities under severe strain, according to the Greek police. Greece also faces the possibility of being hit by a wave of migrants from Libya and other countries in the region. One Greek minister warned that the number could be as many as 300,000.

But diplomatic correspondent Semih Idiz says unless the EU eases its visas controls Ankara is in no mood to compromise.

“Turks are confronted with visas from Europe even though they are many businessmen who do business with Europe. There are thousands of students who go to Europe and Turkey is being treated as a third world country which has nothing but potential illegal immigrants,” Idiz said. “For the government , the state and the population this is a demeaning situation.”

But joint head of the European Green Party, Daniel Cohn Bendit, says Ankara has to realize what its asking for.

“Opening a free travel is an immense opening. Turkey is a big country,” he said. “This is a debate I have had for 10 years with the Turks.”

Turkey has been a candidate to join the 27-nation union since 1999 and accession talks began in earnest in 2005. But, observers warn that Turkey’s tough stance on the re-admission agreement will do little to enhance Turkey’s reputation in Brussels.  The Turkish government insists protecting EU borders from illegal migration is just one of many reasons it has much to lose if  its EU bid fails.  As a senior Turkish foreign ministry official put it, Brussels has to understand it can’t have its cake and eat it, too.

Source: VOA

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Malaysia will grant visa-free privileges to Taiwanese passport holders by the end of the month at the earliest, Chinese-language newspapers in Malaysia quoted Malaysian Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen as saying Tuesday.

According the reports, Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry has informed Taiwan’s authorities of the decision.

Ng said, however, that the visa-free measures will only be implemented by the end of the month because there are still technical details that need to be discussed.

Malaysia stopped issuing landing visas across the board Aug. 15 last year in a bid to prevent foreign migrant workers from abusing the program, noting that 75,462 people who entered the country on landing visas overstayed between 1996 and 2009.

Prior to the ban, Malaysia had offered landing visa privileges to Taiwanese citizens since 2009.

The Southeast Asian country’s decision to stop issuing landing visas was part of its efforts to grapple with the increasingly serious problem of overstaying visitors from China, India and Bangladesh, who abused the system by entering visa-free and then working illegally.

The Taiwanese authorities had asked Malaysia not to include Taiwan on the list of countries that have abused the program, as the vast majority of Taiwanese visitors to the country are relatively wealthy and very far from being “migrant workers.”

Taiwanese citizens make more than 200,000 visits to Malaysia annually, according to statistics.

Source: CNA

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The United Kingdom government has decided not to implement  visa requirements for St Lucian nationals travelling there as tourists or family visitors for less than six months.

However, nationals wishing to live, work, marry or study in the United Kingdom will continue to require a visa to do so.

The British High Commissioner said the St Lucia government has worked closely with authorities in the UK to address the various areas of concern relating to migration.

The decision, which follows a six-month UK Visa Test, was recently handed down to Prime Minister Stephenson King and the Minister for Home Affairs and National Security Senator Guy Mayers by the British High Commissioner to Barbados and the OECS, Paul Brummell.

Prime Minister King said the decision indicates confidence by the governments of St Lucia and the UK in each other’s abilities to address concerns amicably.

“We have received and accepted with much delight the decision of the British government. As a responsible government we have given further commitment to the authorities in the UK that we will continue our dialogue and consultation in ensuring that what we have achieved to date will be maintained without question, without any blemish or without any form of interference one way or the other,” he said.

Minister Mayers urged St Lucians not to engage in any activity that would cause the UK government to have any concerns about people from this Caribbean island visiting that country.

The British High Commissioner said the St Lucia government has worked closely with authorities in the UK to address the various areas of concern relating to migration.

“I really would like to thank Prime Minister King, Senator Mayers and all organs within the government of St Lucia that we had to work with for excellent cooperation over the six-month period. We found that the discussions were very positive and St Lucian authorities were very receptive to our ideas; the existing immigration arrangements continue,” he said.

The Home Affairs and National Security Minister said both governments wanted to see continued progress in certain areas where mitigation actions were not completed.

He said those include the full recall of all handwritten passports by 2012, clearing backlog of issued birth certificates by the end of this month, the ratification of the United Nations Convention against corruption, and continued publicity to effectively promote legal migration to the UK and the consequences of non-compliance.

The British High Commission Office in Barbados will continue to monitor St Lucia`s progress regarding the immigrations issues.

Should the risks to the UK not reduce, or if they increase, authorities in the United Kingdom say they may have to reconsider the visa requirement.

Source: Caribbean 360

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As part of efforts to streamline the process of issuing visas to business travellers, the US is taking a number of steps including through experiments like conducting visa interviews over Skype and eliminating paper applications.

“We have tried some experiments to look for ways to do interviews over Skype. It doesn’t meet our security needs,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday in her remarks at the President’s Export Council wherein leaders from the industry expressed their concern over delay and restrictions in issuing of visas.

“We train our consular officers to look at a visa applicant from a lot of different perspectives, and it’s unfortunate that that’s the world we find ourselves in. So, we’re trying to do everything possible to keep our consular offices open longer, to try to provide more support,” Clinton said.

“We are streamlining operations by eliminating paper applications, working to expedite visa appointments for business travelers,” she said.

Last year, the United States issued almost seven million visas to qualified applicants around the world, she said, adding that in the last two years the US has certified nine additional countries for its Visa Waiver program.

“When it comes to visa waivers, there are very strict standards that have to be met by the Department of Homeland Security.

“China, India and Brazil do not meet them, and that’s where a huge increase in visa applications are coming from,” she said.

Source: Indian Express

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