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 Op Z24 het volgende boeiende artikel:   Restaurant De Gouden Wok in het Zuiderpark in Den Haag. Foto ANP Westerse landen beconcurreren elkaar steeds feller met specifiek beleid om kennismigranten te lokken. De aanpak die onder meer Nederland gebruikt, blijkt niet optimaal om de juiste kenniswerkers aan te trekken, signaleert Z24’s Jeroen de Boer. De strijd om de knapste koppen op de arbeidsmarkt krijgt steeds meer een mondiaal karakter. Rijkere, westerse landen verdringen elkaar met beleid om zogenoemde kennismigranten binnen te halen. Hoger opgeleide migranten met specifieke vaardigheden – vooral op het gebied van technologie en exacte wetenschappen – zijn gewild als aanjagers van productiviteitsgroei in landen...

To summarize the blogs I posted today: According to the Dutch courts: - Refused asylumseekers from Iraq can be deported to Jordan if Jordan agrees to take them back; - Algerian authorities do grant a laissez passer to their nationals who are illegal in The Netherlands as long as they declare to be willing to go back. The court states that that declaration can demanded from such illegal aliens; - Some Oeigoers lost their case against deportation to China. The highest administrative court did not follow their lawyers that the sole fact that they had been abroad for a long period would bring their life in danger (artcle 3 ECHR); The Dutch organisation Vluchtelingenwerk (Refugee aid) organises a white umbrella march on World refugee day. In Vrij Nederland (a magazine) an article is publised about the medical plight of illegal aliens in The Netherlands. Requests for a resident permit as a highly qualified migrant are halted for people from Iran due to the political pressure Europ...

MPs have voted in favour of changes to the 30% tax ruling for expats, bringing in a minimum salary and cutting the duration to eight years. However, the new regulations are less severe than originally planned. Expats must now earn a basic salary of €50,000 (including the tax break) to qualify, rather than the €70,000 originally planned. In addition, there will be no salary minimum for academic staff and researchers, and a new category of ‘young masters’ will be created for the under-30s who earn at least €38,000 (including the tax break). No change for most Ton Krol, of tax consultancy Blue Clue Tax says young people at the start of their career and those on a job rotation system within multinationals will be worst affected. ‘This will make it more difficult to attract new staff because talented people who are willing to move can work everywhere. Why work in the Netherlands if your net income can be twice as much somewhere else?’ he said. In order to pay for the shortfall i...

Thursday November 19, 2009, 08:00AM Ends: Friday November 20, 2009, 05:00PM Event Type: Conference Location: Renaissance Chancery Court 252 High Holborn London, GREATER LONDON WC1V 7EN GB Website: http://www.int-bar.org/conferences/conf283/ Keywords: The state of the nations at a time of economic crisis/Business visitors – the do’s and the don’ts/Skilled workers – the highly skilled and the global transfers/Entrepreneurs and investors/The European immigration scene/The new US immigration law landscape Intended For: Immigration lawyers, policy-makers, in-house counsels, human resource managers and other parties interested in immigration matters. Organization: International Bar Association The conference is the leading Global Immigration Conference for immigration professionals and HR personnel. The conference is held biennially and in 2007 the event was attended by almost 200 delegates from all corners of the world. We are expecting a similar turn out for the 2009 event, thus a great op...