Australia raises permanent migration numbers amid labour squeeze
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia will increase its permanent immigration numbers by 35,000 to 195,000 in the current financial year as it looks to shift its focus toward long-term migrants, bringing some relief for businesses battling widespread staff shortages. Australia closed its borders for about two years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but those strict […]
Doors are closing fast for Cubans seeking to travel
Havana, CubaReuters Cuban Miguel Palenzuela, 52, and his wife Ania have been waiting for a month outside Colombia’s embassy in Havana in hopes of securing a visa to travel through the South American nation. Palenzuela, who commutes almost daily from Guanabacoa, outside the capital, says he would prefer an appointment but the website crashes. Other […]
Battered by economic crisis, Sri Lankans seek passport to a better life
Colombo, Sri LankaReuters RMR Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and, with it, a chance to leave a country wilting under an economic crisis. A garment worker, 33-year-old Lenora decided to apply for a job as a […]
Biden unveils migration plan, capping Americas summit roiled by division
Los Angeles, USReuters US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders from the Western Hemisphere on Friday rolled out a new set of measures to confront the regional migration crisis, seeking to salvage an Americas summit roiled by division. Biden’s aides had touted the migration declaration as a centerpiece of the US-hosted Summit of the Americas, […]
Migrants stuck in Mexico hopeful US will lift COVID-era expulsion policy at border
Reynosa, MexicoReuters News the United States is poised to end a pandemic-related border expulsion policy is buoying hopes of thousands of migrants who have waited months in Mexico for a chance to seek asylum in the United States. US health officials are set to announce plans this week to terminate the order, known as Title […]
Cubans frantic to migrate as economy falters, new hurdles arise
Havana, CubaReuters Bray Perez, a 19-year-old Cuban university student, is fast losing friends to a growing wave of migration off the island. “Every time I go home, I find that 10 people have left,” said Perez, who studies in the capital Havana but hails from the nearby farm province of Mayabeque. “It’s hard to get […]
Panama sees massive jump of unlawful migration in 2021
Panama City, PanamaReuters A record wave of unauthorized migrants entered Panama this year from Colombia, according to government data provided to Reuters on Thursday, as a surge of mostly Haitians entered the Central American country in route to the United States. Through mid-December, 126,675 unlawful migrants had entered Panama after crossing the Darien Gap, a […]
Postcards: Cast out of US, Haiti migrant drops American Dream for second go in Chile
GESSIKA THOMAS, IVAN ALVARADO and DAINA BETH SOLOMON, of Reuters, report…
South American exodus: A Brazilian town empties as migration to US accelerates
Amid on ongoing migration crisis on the US southern border, GABRIEL STARGARDTER, of Reuters, reports from the town of Alpercata in south-eastern Minas Gerais state…
Pope urges European solidarity with migrants amid new crisis
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis renewed his call for Europe to welcome and show solidarity with migrants, saying the diversity they’re bringing to the continent is renewing European cities as a “beautiful mosaic, which should not be scarred or corrupted with prejudices or hatred”. Pope Francis attends an audience in the Paul VI Hall at the […]