The world population is still growing, but ageing at the same time. That is evident in the UN report World Population Prospects 2019. Birth rates are falling and life expectancies are increasing. Migration also has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop. In 2050, the average global life expectancy will be 77.1 years – […]
Despite the negative economic impact on the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the region still experiences positives, said Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Dr.Timothy Antoine. “One legacy of the pandemic, I hope, will be stronger health systems because our countries had to invest significant sums in our […]
On March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services temporarily suspended in-person services at its field offices, asylum offices, and application support centers (ASCs) to help slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). USCIS is readying offices to reopen on or after June 4. Employees in these offices are continuing to perform mission-essential services that do not […]
Headline: Demand for EB-5 visas from qualified job creating investors far exceeds the congressional limit of approximately 10,000 immigrant visas per year (including family), resulting in lengthy quota backlogs for most EB-5 investors, and up to 15 years for investors from China. Headline: For a combination of reasons that will be discussed below, despite the […]
In a continued response to COVID-19, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will extend its public closure of local field offices and Application Support Centers (ASCs), suspending in-person services now until at least June 3. The original suspension took effect on March 18 and has been extended twice, most recently through May 3. During the temporary suspension, […]
A closer look According to the State Department’s May Visa Bulletin, cutoff dates for issuance of an immigrant visa will be as follows: EB-1: All countries except for China and India will become current on May 1. China will advance by five weeks to July 15, 2017, while India will advance by three months to August 1, […]
Closing national borders is a natural response to the coronavirus pandemic, and governments stand on firm legal ground when they do so. But the virus was never going to be stopped at national frontiers, and now containment policies pose another menace: a new migration crisis. Recent viral epidemics – SARS in 2003, H1N1 in 2009, […]
The IMIDaily reported that the government of Cyprus had rejected another round of European Commission demands for a “phasing-out” of citizenship by investment programs among EU member states, responding that Cypriots saw “no reason why it should be stopped”. On Friday, the government of Malta, having received the same request, issued a statement politely indicating that, […]
President Donald Trump’s order banning green cards for overseas foreigners is aimed at protecting American jobs, but it may actually increase the number of employment-based green cards available while keeping out children and the elderly. Trump’s proclamation, signed Wednesday, will prevent noncitizens abroad from moving to the U.S. on new immigrant visas for the next 60 […]
Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that would block indefinitely immigrants in categories the administration failed to eliminate in a bill before the U.S. Senate in February 2018. Economists consider the justification for the president’s action devoid of serious analysis and unconvincing. U.S. citizens will no longer be able to obtain immigrant visas for a […]
