8 February 2008 – A ground-breaking programme from UKvisas. supported by VEGA Group PLC (VEGA), to biometrically enrol all visa applicants to the United Kingdom, has won an e-Government award for ‘innovation in strategy’.

Britain has announced a hike in UK immigration visa fees to fund sweeping changes it plans to introduce to improve border security over the next 12 months.

The top U.S. immigration enforcement official says federal agents expect to deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are in prisons across the country.

Sweden saw a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum in 200

Immigrants population in Canada have grown four times faster with one in five people in the country last year was born in another country, the highest proportion since the 1930s.

Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America?

U.S. immigration officials have implemented a new policy to show greater consideration for breast-feeding mothers, days after authorities arrested a Honduran woman in Ohio on an immigration violation and separated her from her crying baby.

At least 47 migrants trying to reach European waters died of cold and thirst after their boat ran aground on the coast of Mauritania in west Africa.

Immigration activists are closely following the fate of a proposed hefty increase in H1B visa fees as US lawmakers are trying to sort out appropriations bills in particular the Labour, Health and Human Services that the measure has been tagged.

Questions about human migration from Asia to the Americas have perplexed anthropologists for decades, but as scenarios about the peopling of the New World come and go, the big questions have remained. Do the ancestors of Native Americans derive from only a small number of “founders” who trekked to the Americas via the Bering land bridge? How did their migration to the New World proceed? What, if anything, did the climate have to do with their migration? And what took them so long?

The European Union has announced it is planning to introduce a blue card for skilled immigrants, to fill 20 million job vacancies over the next 20 years.

France's first museum showcasing the country's history of immigration has opened in Paris - to a storm of controversy. Located in eastern Paris, the National Complex of the History of Immigration aims to retrace France's history of immigration during the past two centuries - and the role immigrants have played in the nation's construction.