immigration

PETALING JAYA - All new detainees entering immigration detention centres will be screened for Covid-19, says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Noor Hisham said this new policy has been implemented not by the…

Hong Kong protesters have promised more demonstrations this weekend after Beijing announced its plan to bypass the local legislature and enact national security laws. In a Telegram app broadcast seen by over 40,000 users, several…

David Kvien, a 29-year-old Danish 3D artist from Tokyo, left Japan for Copenhagen on March 20 to attend to funeral arrangements for his father, who had passed away from a heart attack just a day before.The flight he planned to take…

Washington – The U.S. government agency that processes citizenship applications and work visas is running out of money because of the COVID-19 pandemic and says it needs to raise its fees and receive emergency funding from Congress…

Thailand and Malaysia moved quickly to head off the coronavirus, sealing their borders, shutting down the movement of people and encouraging social distancing. They now face the delicate challenge of restarting their economies when…

New Delhi – India has embarked on a “massive” operation involving naval ships and aircraft to bring back some of the hundreds of thousands of its nationals stuck abroad due to COVID-19 restrictions, the government said.India banned…

Pauline Hanson says it's a "joke" that Labor is trying to raise concerns regarding the nation's immigration rate when she endured the party's "wrath" for raising a similar position in parliament. Labor frontbencher Kristina Keneally has…

San Diego – Pamela Thompson, a recruiter at Adventist Health Bakersfield in California, made seven job offers to foreign nurses in February and just finished a first round of interviews with 12 more candidates. They are from all…

Immediately after all Chinese group tours through this summer were canceled at the end of January and February following the coronavirus outbreak, a Chinese man in his 20s who had worked as a full-time employee at a hotel near…

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered a temporary block on some foreigners from permanent residence in the United States, saying he wanted to protect American workers and jobs during the coronavirus…

A chronically ill refugee held in immigration detention – and at serious risk of contracting Covid-19 – has launched a case in the high court seeking his release into the community to protect him from infection. His challenge, lodged in…

Washington – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his new U.S. immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking green cards for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans seeking to regain jobs lost…

1.23am BST01:23 South African president unveils $26bn virus relief plan South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a $26bn relief package to support the economy and the vulnerable during the coronavirus…

President Donald Trump tweeted Monday (April 21) that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the U.S. amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The president also noted the need to "protect jobs." "In…

US President Donald Trump has announced the suspension of immigration amid the COVID-19 crisis.Taking to Twitter, he said he will be “signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States”.In light of the…

A detainee in Villawood detention centre has been tested for Covid-19, as asylum seekers and refugees in immigration detention centres across Australia say it is impossible for them to self-isolate and protect themselves from the virus.…

An immigration guard working at a Brisbane hotel being used as a makeshift detention centre has tested positive for coronavirus, prompting fears the confined refugee population could be vulnerable to an outbreak. The hotel, at Kangaroo…

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysians who travel to Singapore on a near daily basis for work or study will not be able to do so when a movement restriction order comes into effect on Wednesday (March 18), Malaysia’s immigration chief said on…

WELLINGTON/CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – Days before the first anniversary of the shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers, an image appeared in a post on an encrypted messaging app showing a balaclava-clad man…

Japan tightened its border controls Monday to limit the spread of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but government officials and legal experts point out the containment strategy may not be successful due to legal…