After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded the alarm in March that it was time for Canadians abroad to "come home" as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, Megan Stewart found herself faced with a difficult decision. While her loved ones were back home in Canada, it had always been her dream to live and work in London. Having arrived in the U.K. capital in November after spending hundreds of dollars to obtain a visa, the 29-year-old was desperate to stay. Not long after making the decision to r

The Trump administration has announced plans to significantly overhaul the U.S. H-1B visa program with a rule change that will force employers to pay H-1B visa workers similar wages to those earned by Americans. Under the H-1B visa program, thousands of foreign skilled workers are able to live and work in the U.S. each year, with the visa frequently being used in the tech industry. Addressing reporters in a press conference call on Tuesday, senior officials with the Department of Homeland Secu

More than 180,000 people have signed a petition calling on the British government to end a policy barring most asylum seekers in the United Kingdom from being able to work while their applications are being processed. On Wednesday, “Lift the Ban”, a coalition of 240 immigration advocacy organizations, businesses, trade unions and other groups, submitted the petition to Britain’s Home Office, calling on the government to stop blocking asylum seekers from working and contributing to the economy.

Greece is set to extend a barrier along its border with Turkey in a ramped-up effort to prevent migrants, asylum seekers and refugees from crossing into the country. In a press briefing, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas said the country planned see at least 26 kilometers (16 miles) of border wall added to a pre-existing 10-kilometer (6-mile) construction by the end of April. The project is expected to cost roughly 63 million euros, or $74.2 million, Petsas said. The decision comes after

It was in December 2014, just months after unrest had begun to take root in Ferguson, Missouri, over police brutality against Black people following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, that Mbye Njie found himself being pulled over police three times in just under two weeks in Dekalb County. The third time it happened was the most impactful, with that incident seeing an officer follow Njie for three miles on the highway before finally pulling him over. At first, the officer told Njie t

Joe Biden is being urged to promise roughly 2.2 million people at risk of future deportation protections to remain in the U.S. on “day one of his presidency" if he wins the upcoming November election. In a letter shared exclusively with this publication, more than 200 organizations and groups, including Alianza Americas, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the Oxfam America Action Fund, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and dozens of others, are calling on Biden

Cyprus is set to suspend a program providing a quick route to citizenship and access to visa-free travel throughout European Union countries after officials were caught considering ways to help convicted criminals gain access to the initiative. On Tuesday, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported that Cyprus was suspending its “golden” passport program, which provides citizenship and visa-free travel throughout EU countries to those who invest a minimum of €2 million ($2.3 million), typica

t was exactly three years ago that the simple words Me Too began to reverberate across social media, resonating with countless people all over the world. Film producer Harvey Weinstein, now a convicted rapist, had just been exposed by The New York Times and The New Yorker as the accused in multiple sexual harassment and assault allegations, sparking widespread outrage. Some questioned how Weinstein could have possibly flown under the radar for so long. Many, however, did not have to wonder, as

sylum seekers at a migrant camp in the Mexican border town of Matamoros had to band together to help deliver a baby after an expectant mother at the encampment went into labour. By the time Consuelo Herrera, a Guatemalan asylum seeker living at the camp with her husband, Pedro, and their young son, began to experience contractions, it was too late to try to reach a hospital. Instead, fellow asylum seekers helped her lie down on the ground, just by the edge of the Rio Grande, as they talked her

hen 17-year-old Ronal Morales and his family first embarked on the treacherous journey to the US border in July 2019, leaving the lives they had built in El Salvador behind, they never imagined that their destination might be just as unforgiving as the circumstances they had fled. Back in El Salvador, Morales, whose last name has been changed over fears of retribution for speaking out, had been facing growing pressure to join one of the gangs that dominated his city. For years, he had tried to