Is there, when emigrating to Germany (by analogy with the United States), upon obtaining a tax number, a procedure for declaring all funds that the emigrant has on the day of his entry into the…
The U.S. House of Representatives has once again questioned the need for the well-known Green Card lottery, which gives citizens of some countries the right to obtain resident status in the United…
The problem of refugees and asylum seekers who have lived for many years in the Federal Republic with the precarious residence status Duldung was the focus of the latest conference of German state…
The Russian State Duma last week passed in the first reading amendments to the citizenship law submitted by the president. The aim of the legislative changes is to extend until January 1, 2008, the…
The Federal Migration Service of Russia (FMS) is not ready to conduct an amnesty for illegal migrants in 2006. An adequate legislative framework has not been created, and the mentality of officials…
The Czech Interior Ministry intends to show a human face to illegal migrants. A series of draft laws is being prepared to change the Czech state's policy towards guest workers.
The French National Assembly - the lower house of the French parliament - has approved an “anti-terrorism bill” hastily drafted by the country's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy.
The first paragraph of Article 16 of the German Basic Law states: "No one may be deprived of German citizenship." Now Germany's Federal Constitutional Court must decide whether this right applies to…
The Estonian government approved a draft regulation prepared by the Ministry of Education and Science on the procedure for exemption from citizenship exams and assigning an easier exam-taking…
Thanks to another Brussels directive, at the beginning of next year Latvia's non-citizens will have the opportunity to acquire the status of permanent resident of the EU. As the Latvian publication…
The Green Card lottery was and remains the only program that provides a real opportunity to obtain permanent residency in the United States. Official statistics show that Ukraine ranks 6th this year…
Over the next five years, 78 million Americans who have earned their pensions will begin leaving their jobs. This will create a shortage of experienced specialists, who are unlikely to be replaced by…