Immigration News
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Census Bureau data has revealed that 42.4 million immigrants lived in the US in 2014. Immigrants here include both legal and illegal. This is said to be the highest number of immigrants who lived in this North American nation ever. This number constituted 13.3 percent of the American population in that year. According to Center… Read More »
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Indian immigrants most entrepreneurial in US
Posted on October 15, 2016
Comment (0)In the FY-2015-16, the contribution of the immigrants to the US economy was said to be about $2 trillion and Indians were said to be ‘the most entrepreneurial’ of all the ethnic groups, according to a new US report titled, the Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Authored by experts from the National Academies of… Read More »
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Forbes list reveals that ten percent of 400 richest Americans are immigrants
Posted on October 12, 2016
Comment (0)The annual list of 400 richest Americans of Forbes Magazine, which was released recently, revealed that 42 of them were immigrants from 21 countries. The combined net worth of all of these immigrants was $250 billion. Noteworthy among them are Tesla founder Elon Musk, with a net worth of $11.6 billion, who hails from South… Read More »
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The year that was: Australia and reasons for immigration
Posted on September 26, 2016
Comment (0)Australia has grown quite well in terms of economy and job creation in comparison to its previous three years. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, its economy clocked in an annual yearly growth at 2.5%. The growth has been driven by three major factors of construction, exports and consumer product consumption. Goods and services… Read More »
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New Zealand receives 125,000 immigrants in year ending August
Posted on September 22, 2016
Comment (0)Although 125,000 immigrants entered New Zealand in one year ending August, shortages in the labour force in high-demand sectors for the country such as technology and construction remain. It is averred that the latest data to be revealed by the statistics office would raise calls for the government to implement better policies to attract workers… Read More »
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Around 20 percent of Germans are related to immigrants
Posted on September 21, 2016
Comment (0)The German Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, stated on 16 September that out of the total country’s population of 81.4 million in 2015, 17.1 million people had some kind of a relationship with an immigrant family, with most of them being not born in this West European nation. This includes immigrants to Germany, citizens with one… Read More »
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Profile of American immigrants in 2014
Posted on October 19, 2016