The American Green Card visa lottery (DV) still remains the most popular way to leave for the USA for those who have no other legal means to immigrate to the States (family reunification, marriage…
I would like to tell readers about a somewhat forgotten page in the history of the return of Russian Germans to Germany. It has not only historical significance but also a certain legal significance…
"Zagranitsa" often recounts the lives and problems that immigrants from countries of the former Soviet Union encounter in the Czech Republic. We again turn to this topic thanks to Radio Prague, whose…
At the end of summer, a seminar of the Consortium of Czech non-governmental organizations specializing in helping refugees and emigrants took place in Prague. As Radio Prague reports, the range of…
Employees of the Luhansk regional administration of the Security Service of Ukraine uncovered an organized criminal group that was involved in the illegal sending of Ukrainians to Israel. As reported…
In 'Zagranitsa' No. 43 (October 2003), the US State Department's instructions for participants of the American Green Card visa lottery (DV-2005) and answers to the most common questions were…
The editors asked me to comment from a lawyer's perspective on two cases of expulsion from Germany that attracted public attention, involving former citizens of the USSR who lived in Germany for many…
On September 18, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Denis Coderre, called a press conference to announce significant changes to the country's immigration system. Canada has come to its…
As we reported in the previous issue of "Zagranitsa", the Russian president has prepared a draft of softening amendments to the law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation". Last week this document…
Russian Toronto considers the concessions of Canada's immigration authorities a populist step on the eve of the upcoming federal elections. On September 18, what was to be expected happened -…
At the beginning of September, the faction of the Free Democratic Party of Germany in the Bundestag adopted a policy document proposing a moratorium until the end of 2007 on the further admission of…
Israel is one of the countries with the highest percentage of illegal workers in the world. Traditionally, Israel is a country of immigrants. Until a certain time, non-Jewish immigration practically…