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The Irish tourism minister Leo Varadkar has expressed an opinion that United Kingdom and Ireland should create a common visa, which grants the international tourists right to visit both countries without the need to apply for two separate visas. Minister Varadkar thinks that both United Kingdom and Ireland will be able to profit from such a change. The reason for this is that the new travel zone, which is supposed to be modeled after the Schengen Zone in mainland Europe, will attract more and higher- spending visitors, which will come mostly from countries with rapidly-growing economies – China, Brazil, Russia etc.
Currently there is possibility …
The New Zealand Labor department has prepared a report, which indicates that there is a decline in the number of New Zealand Visas issued in the period between July 2011 and March 2012. In their new report the immigration authorities have written that 13,265 were granted a Skilled Migrant Visa to New Zealand which is almost a 12 percent decline compared with the same period during the previous year.
The reasons for this new development are mainly to be found in the effects of the global economic crisis. In times of high economic uncertainty a lot of prospective highly-skilled migrants prefer to take less risk …
UK Immigration minister Damian Green has stated that Family visitor visa will be unable to appeal if their visa application is rejected. The British Home Office has announced that the new changes will take place form 2014 after parliamentary approval and Royal Assent have been granted.
The main reason for implementing the new rules is the fact that, the visa appeal process takes a lot of time and costs to much money for the UK taxpayers. In addition to that the number of submitted appeals since 2000 has skyrocketed. For example more than 50 000 appeals have been registered during the last year. At the …
