... Platinum Visa program, which allows immigrants to obtain permanent residency within 12 months if they make a A$15 million (US$12.35 million) investment. The price tag is 19 times more than the ordina ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... nvestment visa program just before it was suspended. Authorities have been handling the cases at a rate of 4,000 a year, but about 12,000 applications remain in the pipeline. The city is also relaxing ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... r student visa as some countries categorize this as a business activity. When iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were not yet launched in China, many mainlanders studying or working in Hong Kong were overwhel ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... le in the visa system. Some FDHs, persuaded by intermediaries, are said to deliberately perform badly or display poor attitude to make their employers terminate the contracts prematurely, so that the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... hanges in visa rules and plane accidents in Southeast Asia have also affected travel trends, it said. The 4,300 respondents to the survey by Travelzoo Asia Pacific -- a licensee of Travelzoo Inc., a g ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... ng offers visa-free entry to more than 80 countries and territories but China is not included. Q: Do you think that Hong Kong should be isolated from China? A: (Respondent 1) The answer will be a big ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
... a tourist visa from the mainland. The first seven digits of the three officers’ telephone numbers were the same, as they work in the same office, indicating that the suspect probably just changed one ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
Australia will free thousands of would-be refugees from detention centers and allow them to live in the country for at least three years. The move is part of a controversial temporary visa policy bein ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
... Kong is a visa-free city for nationals of many countries including the UK, questions are being raised if Beijing even had any right to refuse permission to the overseas lawmakers. Observers say it wou ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
... migration visa program after Chinese applicants overwhelmed the quota. Chinese money has been largely blamed for a surge in Australia’s house prices in recent years. Sydney house prices, for instance, ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
... h a valid visa as well as foreign companies and international organizations operating in the country now will be permitted to acquire houses and apartments. Before, the law limited ownership to foreig ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
British MPs have cancelled a visit to Shanghai after China denied a visa to one of them who led a debate in a parliamentary hall on the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, The Guardian reported Tuesd ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
Immigration officials in Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong province, are tightening visa regulations to check the growing tide of African immigrants into the city, Apple Daily repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
... Investor Visa scheme Canberra introduced in 2012. The program offers residency to overseas individuals who invest more than A$5 million in Australia. It is families like the Sus who are the target of ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
... s to ease visa restrictions for businessmen, students and tourists, Xi displayed little patience when asked at a news conference if he would do the same for foreign journalists. It quoted Xi as eventu ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
China and the United States have agreed to significantly extend the terms of short-term visas in a bid to improve trade and business ties between the world's two largest economies. Under the deal, bot ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... nvestment visa and 90 percent of the Australian program. Most of the applicants go to these countries for their children's education and for business opportunities. Also, they are drawn by the prospec ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
... two-year visa to work as a domestic helper. When her employer terminated her contract 13 months later, she had two weeks to leave, the Indonesian consulate said. Instead, she overstayed, according to ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... ments for visa-related documents that allowed them to live in the United States, purportedly as legal students. US District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar sentenced Su on Friday after she was convicted in M ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
China will open up its market for clearing domestic bank card transactions, a move that is expected to benefit firms such as Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. The State Council, the nation's cabinet, said ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30