Swiss government rejects proposal to limit immigrationThe Swiss government on Monday rejected a hard-right proposal to limit immigration to stop the population from hitting 10 million before 20...
17 Mar, 2026, 11.40 AM IST
International students made up half of France’s new immigrants in 2025France saw a significant increase in immigration during 2025. Student arrivals and humanitarian permits drove this growth. Economic migrati...
30 Jan, 2026, 12.22 PM IST
Near record number of small boat migrants reach UK in 2025The tally comes as Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage's anti-immigration party Reform UK surges in popularity ahead of bellwether local election...
01 Jan, 2026, 11.50 PM IST
UK net migration drops by about two-thirds after tougher policiesBritain's net migration has significantly dropped. Official data shows a fall to 204,000 in the year to June. This decline is attributed to...
27 Nov, 2025, 06.00 PM IST
Vacation or interrogation? Canada warns travellers their phones may be searched at US borderCanada has issued a new travel advisory warning citizens entering the US to expect increased scrutiny, including potential searches of phon...
06 Apr, 2025, 08.48 PM IST
Deporting undocumented immigrants: The economic costs of Trump’s aggressive immigration policyTrump administration's aggressive deportation of illegal immigrants could result in economic repercussions including increased inflation an...
22 Feb, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
First-time asylum seekers in EU drop by 17% in June, Eurostat saysFirst-time asylum applications in the EU decreased by 17% in June, with Syrians, Venezuelans, and Afghans being the main applicants. German...
20 Sep, 2024, 06.00 PM IST
Who is leaving Canada and why?A new study by Statistics Canada reveals that a significant number of immigrants choose to leave Canada within years of arriving. Over 15% ...
14 Feb, 2024, 04.44 PM IST
US authorities encountered with over 2 lakh illegal Indian immigrants in last 5 years: DataThe US authorities "encountered" with over 200,000 illegal Indian immigrants in the last five years with the highest cases of 96,917 report...
15 Dec, 2023, 10.48 AM IST
France is mulling a new residency permit for foreigners to ease labour shortagesThe French reform comes at a time when other European countries are also loosening immigration rules to deal with labour market pressures, ...
23 Dec, 2022, 10.46 AM IST
Poland issues highest number of residence permits; Indians top benefactorsThe report shows that Poland issued over 967,345 permits in 2021, the highest annual figure ever. The figure was a third of all permits in ...
12 Aug, 2022, 08.21 PM IST
New residence permits in EU rose to approach pre-pandemic levels in 2021Despite the continuing pandemic, the number of first residence permits issued in the EU to non-EU citizens jumped 31% to 2,952,300 in 2021 ...
09 Aug, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
Canada's population surges from 2016-2021, thanks to record immigrationCanada added 1.8 million people between 2016 and 2021, with nearly 80% of those new residents arriving from elsewhere in the world, retaini...
11 Feb, 2022, 12.09 PM IST
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France's poorest areasProviding food aid might be the most fixable of the longstanding problems in the heavily immigrant housing projects ringing France's large ...
26 Apr, 2020, 02.52 PM IST
Indians second-largest migrant group in United KingdomIndians are the second-largest group of migrants coming to the UK after Chinese, according to latest figures.
22 May, 2015, 10.47 PM IST
Immigration debate masks benefits to EU's top economiesAn unemployed builder sits on the pavement, begging for small change next to a slogan saying "EU policy at work - British workers are hit h...
15 May, 2014, 05.35 PM IST
- Indians:Largest new immigrants to UK
The largest number of migrants into Britain during 2004 and 2005 were from India, according to latest official figures that show that peopl...
21 Apr, 2007, 01.21 AM IST