2,722 Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship for Allocation in July

Edited by Sanwar Ali

Written by Daniel Waldron and Sanwar Ali

In the last Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship allocation notice before Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for July stands at 2,722, according to UK Visas and Immigration data. The department published its June report citing that its figures were correct as of 17 June, 2016.

An employer with a Tier 2 Sponsorship Licence needs to apply for Certificates of Sponsorship for immigrants they wish to employ. Under the current UK immigration system, unused Tier 2 restricted CoS to employ people who are currently based outside the UK can be reclaimed after three months. This increases the availability of restricted CoS used.

The June Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship allocation meeting took place on 13 June. All valid applications lodged by 5 June were successful, provided they scored 21 points or more.

The breakdown of Tier 2 CoS for the month of June looks like this:

Number of Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship from annual limit set aside for allocation meeting in June*.	2,000
Balance of Certificates of Sponsorship carried over from previous month (May).	615
Number of certificates returned during previous month (May).	10
Number of certificates reclaimed as not used within three months.	0
Number of certificates granted by exceptional consideration outside of monthly allocation during previous month (May).	33
Total number of certificates assigned to Croatians in previous month (May).	17
Total number of Certificates of Sponsorship available for allocation in June.	2,575
Minimum point score for successful applications in June.	21
Total number of Certificates of Sponsorship granted in June.	1,853
Tier 2 (General – New hires under £155,300).	1,842
Tier 2 (General – Tier 4 dependant switching to Tier 2).	12
Balance of certificates of sponsorship carried over to July 2016.	722
Number of Certificates of Sponsorship available for allocation in July 2016.	2,722

*Please note: Government data lists this as May in their June information. This is an error on their part.

The next UK Visas and Immigration allocation meeting will take place on 11 July, 2016 and will indicate the number of Tier 2 CoS that will be available for the month of August.

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Emiratis affected by Italy earthquake asked to contact UAE embassy

UAE embassy in Rome has asked UAE citizens affected by the earthquake in Italy to contact them on 00390636306100.

“The UAE nationals affected by the earthquake in the provinces of Lazio and Marche in Italy, please communicate with the Embassy on Tel 00390636306100,” a tweet posted on the Embassy in Rome twitter page said on Wednesday.

All Emirati citizens currently travelling in the country are reported to be safe, a source at the UAE embassy in Rome said.

“At the moment we can say that all the Emirati people are safe and no body got hurt during this disaster.”

The embassy official said the number of reported casualties has climbed to 22.

“The victims are for now 22 in the main cities that are affected by the earthquake.”

RELATED: Death toll increases in central Italy earthquake

Asked if they had reached out to UAE citizens in the country they said: “We are doing this right now and there will be an announcement on social media now to announce that everyone was safe.”

A strong earthquake struck central Italy early on Wednesday, levelling buildings in several towns as residents slept.

At least 11 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from the rubble.

The magnitude 6.1 quake struck at 3:36 am local time and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including the capital Rome where residents felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. First images of damage showed debris in the street and some collapsed buildings in towns and villages that dot much of the Umbrian countryside.

The hardest-hit towns were Amatrice and Accumoli near Rieti, some 100 km northeast of Rome, though the quake was felt beyond the Lazio region into Umbria and Le Marche on the Adriatic coast.

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Moving to Portugal: Portuguese visas and residency permits

Here is a brief look at visa and residence permit requirements for living in Portugal.

Visas for Portugal

Portugal is part of the Schengen Area, made up of a group of 25 European countries that have abolished all border controls between them. The countries are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. With a Schengen visa, you are able to travel freely amongst these countries.

Who requires a visa for Portugal?
In order to enter you may need a visa and a passport, or just an identity card. Nationals from the EU, Switzerland, Andorra, and Liechtenstein will only need their identity cards. For everyone else, a passport must be valid for at least six months after entry into Portugal. 

Only EU nationals and citizens of the following countries are able to stay in the country for a maximum of 90 days without a visa;
Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, Vatican City and Venezuela. 

On entry, they may check that you have enough finances for the duration of your stay. They may also ask to see a return ticket, or at least proof that you can afford to buy one. 

EU nationals are allowed to enter the country for three months with the aim of finding a job or setting up a business. Once hired, EU nationals will have the same rights as Portuguese workers. 

If you are still unsure about whether or not you will require a visa, contact the Portuguese embassy in your country.

What documents will you need?
If you do need to apply for a visa, you may need to bring certain documents with you. Usually you will need a valid passport with a blank visa page, an application form, and one coloured passport photo. If you are applying for a tourist visa you may need a copy of your schedule, confirmed reservations, proof of departure and return arrangements, proof of sufficient finances and health insurance. 

If you are apply for a business visa, you will probably need a letter from your employer or if you are self-employed, a letter from your solicitor, accountant, bank manger or local chamber of commerce. You may also need references. A student will require proof of enrolment at a Portuguese institution. 

If you are waiting for your visa, you should expect to wait around one or two weeks for a tourist visa and two to three months for a student or business visa. 

Short term visas will cost between EUR 25 and EUR 200. It will be valid for a stay of up to 30 or 90 days. A student visa will be valid until the study is completed.

Residency permits (autorização de residência) for Portugal

The Portuguese Immigration Service  (Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, SEF) is charged with issuing residence permits. 

• SEF offers information in the English language  short and long-term stays in Portugal. Visit the frequently asked questions section here 

Authorisation for residence in Portugal
If you move to Portugal or stay longer than six months, you must obtain the residence card (Autorização de Residência).  Those who fit into this category include those who work, the self-employed, students, those intending to live off savings, retired people and family members.

Apply for a residence permit at the regional directorate or the Delegation of the SEF in your area of residence.
Click here  for a list of regional offices.

Source-http://www.expatica.com/pt/visas-and-permits/Moving-to-Portugal-Portuguese-visas-and-residency-permits_105233.html

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Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close

Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia

Australia and Papua New Guinea have confirmed that the Manus Island detention centre will be closed but offered no detail on the future of the 854 men held there – except that Australia remains adamant it will accept none of the detainees for resettlement.

PNG’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, and Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton, met in Port Moresby on Wednesday.

O’Neill released a statement after the meeting saying that officials from both countries were making progress on how to close the centre.

“Both Papua New Guinea and Australia are in agreement that the centre is to be closed,” O’Neill said, but offered no time frame, only stating that the process should not be rushed.

“A series of options are being advanced and implemented. This must take into account the interests of the people of Papua New Guinea and the wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees.”

Dutton confirmed later on Wednesday that he had discussed the closure of Manus with O’Neill. The minister did not give any indication as to where those held on Manus would go but said none of the refugees would ever be settled in Australia.

“It has been the longstanding position of this government to work with PNG to close Manus and support those people as they transition into PNG or return to their country of origin,” he said.

“Our position, confirmed again today with PNG, is that no one from Manus Islandregional processing centre will ever be settled in Australia.

“In addition to the removal of all children from detention and the closure of 17 detention centres, this is a further dividend of the Coalition’s strong and consistent border protection policies.”

Labor’s immigration spokesman, Shayne Neumann, said it was extraordinary that Australians were learning about the possible closure of Manus from the PNG prime minister rather than the Australian minister.

“This is yet again an example of the lack of transparency and accountability and openness of this government to offshore detention and processing,” Neumann said. “The Australian public have a right to know in circumstances where about $1.2bn of taxpayers’ money is going to offshore processing, what is actually happening.

“Surely the minister should be consulting the opposition and trying to get a bipartisan approach in this space.”

Neumann called on the minister to inform Australians where the asylum seekers would be sent and what arrangements would be made for health, education and other needs. “Tell the Australian public what is happening,” Neumann said.

Source-https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/17/manus-island-detention-centre-to-close-australia-and-papua-new-guinea-agree

Syrian refugees in discarded holiday homes dream of anything but Greece

A small house close to the beach in western Greece is replete with a small rose garden, flowers in a vase, a thatched roof and a kennel, all created by its newly arrived refugee occupants.

It may sound ideal, but for all the coziness, they say it will never be a home.

And here's why. A sign scrawled in green paint on a piece of plywood propped against the window shutter says: "My son is very happy in Germany. We hope to share that happiness".

Before fighting drove Ahmad Berajikli away from Aleppo, in Syria, he had a rose garden there too, and a dog and a family - hence some of the home-from-home comforts he has created.

But half of his family are now in Germany while the other half are in Greece, victims of the vicious war devastating his country and a Europe still deeply divided on how to handle the biggest humanitarian challenge in generations.

"My son, brother, sister and father are in Germany. Why am I here?" he asks.

After squatting in a tent for weeks near Athens, Berajikli, his wife and his other son were moved along with about 340 other Syrian refugees to an abandoned holiday resort in the western Peloponnese.

For five months, they have been living at LM Village, a beachside resort 280 km (174 miles) west of Athens which fell into disuse six years ago amid disagreements between its administrators.

The idea came from Nampil-iosif Morant, the Syrian-born mayor of the Andravida-Kyllini municipality, who suggested accommodating some refugees as a stop-gap to get them out of overcrowded camps. He thought it would be a temporary fix.

There is a Greek proverb, however, that nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

"I thought that Europe would stand by, would show a lot more support to Greece than what I have seen so far," said Morant, a doctor who moved to Greece in 1991 and was elected mayor in 2014.

"I expected Europe to help solve the crisis. Not shut down borders."

Since border shutdowns in the Balkans earlier this year, about 57,000 migrants and refugees have been stuck in Greece, straining a country suffering the worst economic crisis in generations.

Morant, a 54-year old married to a Greek and who considers both Greece and Syria as his home, said it was difficult not to be moved by the plight of refugees.

"Granted, I am from Syria. But I think it would be very difficult for anyone to say 'I don't care', if they saw the squalor these people lived in at the camps."

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As Morant walked through the village one recent afternoon, Syrians rushed over to him in greeting. He got the same warm treatment from Greeks hours earlier.

"They are very open minded," Morant says of locals. "When you give love, you take love. I have never felt like a foreigner here."

More than a third of the new residents of LM Village are children.

Amira, a mother of six in her early thirties, had two toddlers in tow hugging her legs as she showed a visitor a children's room, a baby's playpen in the corner stuffed with blankets, and a row of soft toys on a ridge above a curtain rod.

"My husband is in Germany, for two years," she says in broken English. "I don't want to stay here."

Most of the 100-plus children, and a few adults, are already taking some Greek and English lessons.

An 11-year old boy converses with Yiorgos Aggelopoulos, the main administrator of the camp, in rapid Greek, before switching to English. He corrects the English of his 13 year old sister; "You speak 'little' English, not 'small' English," he said. He has been learning both languages for three months.

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With his thatched roof and a small vegetable patch of string beans, bell peppers, corn and tomatoes, Berajikli, 37, appears restless as he sips on a large cup of Arabic coffee and takes a long drag of a cigarette.

There is a small vase of freshly picked white sand lilies on the table. The kennel is made of white sheets of recycled plastic, and a fishing rod is propped up against the wall. The sea lapping the golden beach lying less than 100 metres (yards) away is clogged with weeds. Nobody is on the seafront.

"People are good here, they are good people," he says of Greeks. "They say 'as-salaam alaykum'," he said, the Arabic greeting for 'peace be unto you'.

Piero, a dog Berajikli says adopted his family, stretches languidly on the porch in the sweltering midday heat, then flops down again to sleep.

"He is a good friend," he says of the family's new companion. "Maybe I can take him to Germany too."

Source-http://www.ekathimerini.com/211283/article/ekathimerini/community/syrian-refugees-in-discarded-holiday-homes-dream-of-anything-but-greece

Germany's migrant crisis turns into a NIGHTMARE as 80% of refugees have NO documents

THE true scale of the migrant crisis in Germany has been uncovered as it emerges 80 per cent of asylum seekers have arrived there WITHOUT a passport - and hundreds of thousands are now planning to bring over their FAMILIES.

Four in five migrants hoping to make a new life in the promised land of Europe will land in Germany without a passport a shocking new report by the federal police has revealed.

Between January and April, out of 114,255 of asylum seekers waiting to cross the border, around 91,000 did not have the required documents.

And from January to March this year German border officers seized 1,306 fake documents from asylum seekers, of which 145 were Syrian refugees, according to German newspaper Bild.

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Meanwhile, in 2015, federal police seized 4,973 fake identification documents when searching travelling migrants in Germany - 834 of those were fake IDs of Syrian refugees.

It seems criminals have managed to slip through the net as since the first four months of 2016, more than 4,000 people who have entered the country are now on the Germany’s most wanted list.

There is speculation that many of the migrants are forced to use fake documents after destroying their papers before trying to enter Germany since they reveal information on travel routes within Europe.

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More than 1.1 million migrants entered Germany last year

It's a strain on our society

Frank-Jürgen Weise

More than 1.1 million migrants entered Germany last year, with most coming from Middle Eastern and North African countries.

But Chancellor Angela Merkel's grip on power is growing ever weaker, with rebellion across the country against her controversial immigration policies.

She has consistently berated other EU states for introducing border controls to bring the migrant flow under control, ever since she made a pledge last summer to welcome all Syrians with open arms.

But growing cracks appeared and members of her own movement are beginning to openly question her stance on immigration following the horrific Cologne sex attacks.

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Four in five migrants arriving in Germany do so without a passport

Germany will now have to brace itself for hundreds and thousands of migrants landing in Germany to join their relatives, according to the federal agency for migration and refugees (Bamf).

Spouses, children and parents of unaccompanied, under-age refugees from Syria will arrive, according to a document by the agency.

During the next years up to 500,000 Syrians could encourage their families to join them in Germany, the study predicts.

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A migrant holds his child up to the fence after leaving flowers, on the Greek side of the border fence

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On average this means that one relative per refugee will join them.

This is based on evidence which shows around 428,000 Syrians entered Germany in 2015 and during the first five months of this year this number has already hit 72,000.

Chairman of the federal agency for refugees, Frank-Jürgen Weise, said applications would be dealt with quickly.

He added: “I am sure that the applications we received politically will be dealt with till the end of this year.

“Now the processing will have to start. If my calculations are correct and every decision maker makes two decisions per day, then we will be done by the end of the year.”

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Protesters across the country are against Merkel's controversial immigration policies

The number of non-processed applications has risen to 460,000 in May.While another 300,000 people have yet to file their applications for asylum, according to the agency.

Mr Weise said that out of the refugees that arrived in Germany between 2013 and 2015 around a million have actually stayed.

He concluded: “It's a strain on our society but it is manageable.”

Source-http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/678083/Germany-migrant-crisis-80-per-cent-no-documents-passport-registration