Visas
British authorities intend to use facial recognition technology to identify passengers at the country's airports, reports The Guardian. The innovation is aimed at improving security and reducing…
Education
The interest of our fellow citizens in obtaining various language certificates grows year by year. Some need evidence of successfully passed exams for emigration or study abroad, others for…
Law zone
Researchers from the Prison Research Center at King's College in London have calculated that US prisons hold a quarter of the world's prisoners. At the same time, as the New York Times writes, only…
According to The Daily Mail, while mortgage payment rates have reached record levels, doubling over the past 12 months, British housing prices continue to fall. The rate of decline has reached its…
Visas
China has not changed and does not intend to amend its policy on issuing entry visas to foreign citizens, including multiple-entry visas.
With the increase in demand for foreign real estate, its structure is changing – the share of those who want not just to save funds taken out of the country, but to get maximum return on investments…
US authorities will require airlines and shipping companies to collect fingerprints from foreigners leaving the US.
Immigration
As reported in the previous issue of Zagranitsa, since April of this year, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Polish origin living in the former USSR can apply for the “Pole's Card,” designed to…
When planning to study abroad, our students usually look to the UK, France, Canada, and the USA. And they unfairly overlook Russia's northern neighbor - Suomi, better known to us as Finland…
Law zone
In the United States, more than 30 married couples have been arrested for marrying for a green card and a salary supplement. Immigrant women from Russia and Ukraine met American Navy sailors in bars…
Europe welcomes summer with carnivals, flower parades, music festivals, dances, puppet shows, and fireworks. It will be interesting, fun, and noisy. And more about these and other May events - in the…
Airbus
Baggage transportation often turns into problems: either it turns out that your suitcase exceeds the allowed dimensions, or it weighs a bit more than the norm, or it becomes clear that you can carry…
More than 26 million people became internally displaced last year, Reuters reported, citing data from the annual report of the human rights organization Norwegian Refugee Council, commissioned by the…
For foreigners studying Russian abroad, a certification similar to TOEFL will be introduced, RIA Novosti reports citing representatives of the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural…
Law zone
The international human rights organization Amnesty International recently published a report on the use of the death penalty in 2007. According to Gzt.ru, the report states that 1,252 death…
In the coming decades, the Mediterranean, as well as Turkey and Egypt, which are favorites of our compatriots, will become unsuitable for tourism due to global warming.
Airbus
The European Commission (EC) has published a set of rules allowing passengers on aircraft flying over European Union territory to use mobile phones.
Immigration
According to official data, in the first year of the implementation of the state program for the resettlement of compatriots from abroad, 252.3 million rubles were spent (out of the 4.6 billion…
Visas
Since April of this year, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Polish origin living in the former USSR can apply for the 'Pole's Card'. According to Vremya Novostey, this document will be issued upon…
Japan's Ministry of Justice has submitted to the government a number of proposals to change the country's immigration policy, one of which would issue foreigners visas valid for five years. As RIA…
Work
About 3 million Ukrainian citizens work abroad, according to the representation of the International Organization for Migration in Ukraine. According to experts, 1 million Ukrainians work in Russia…
Immigration
In the middle of last month, the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada made a serious step towards changes in the selection rules for immigrants in the Skilled Workers category for the…
Immigration
Most members of the Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots Abroad recently stated the need to replace compatriot certificates with specific state guarantees enshrined in federal law. According…
Tourism
In April, 20th-century art becomes paramount for European museums and galleries. Vienna's Albertina Museum continues its series 'The Late Work of Great Artists': this time, after Picasso and Schiele…