The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, Points-Based and Family Immigration.

This report explains the points-based immigration systems adopted by Australia, Austria, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Each of these countries determines a noncitizen’s eligibility to obtain a particular visa or residence status partly by whether that noncitizen is able to score above a threshold number of points in accordance with the country’s points scoring system. All of the countries have points-based immigration system for skilled workers. Other categories for which a points-based immigration system is used include investor, entrepreneur/business start-up, persons with exceptional capabilities, temporary worker, and job seeker.  

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Their children – a three-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter – survived.

Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok said the government was awaiting consent from other states to send the migrant workers home.

Bihar’s testing rate is one of the lowest in the country.

The Supreme Court stayed the order after the Centre said it was ‘unworkable’ and passed without consultation.

The Congress leader said the Centre seemed oblivious that thousands of migrant workers had started walking to their home states.

While courts have an important role in ensuring that the rights of citizens are protected, it is essential that they avoid adjudicating on policy matters.

In his letter to Mamata Banerjee’s state government, the Union home minister said that this may further create hardship for the labourers.

The police have arrested over 60 people and another 60 have been detained.

The Union home minister had alleged that the state government was being unjust to migrant workers by not allowing ‘Sharmik’ special trains.

The party said that the workers had applied to the state government for passes to return home, but the administration did not act on it.

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If workers or their home States cannot pay, T.N. will cover the cost under SDRF

The second Shramik special train with 1,131 passengers left Kadpadi junction for Ranchi on Friday at 7.40 p.m. The passengers were brought to the stat

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‘Steps are being taken to send them home’

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The previous night, they had called up relatives in Madhya Pradesh to say they were in a helpless state

TrueNat machines will be used for the first time in the State for virus screening

The Centre said it feared that the order may have a “cascading effect” on migrants of other States as well

All 1,111 passengers underwent thermal screening at the station before departing for Basti in U.P.

All returnees are taken to centres from buses and trains

Interview with Amy A. Gelfand, MD, author of Potential Benefits of Migraine—What Is It Good For?, and Guy Fagherazzi, PhD, author of Associations Between Migraine and Type 2 Diabetes in Women: Findings From the E3N Cohort Study

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About 300 of those who had been detained leave by train to Uttar Pradesh

The mortal remains of the 16 migrant labourers, who were killed after a goods train ran over them in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on Friday, had been sent to their native state Madhya Pradesh on a special train.

Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports, the Commission has directed State Chief Secretary and District Magistrate of Aurangabad to submit a detailed report within four weeks.

The incident took place in Mora village near the industrial town of Hazira.

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Chaos erupted at Mangaluru Central Railway Station on Friday after more than 1,000 migrant workers hailing from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and Bihar grouped at the station falling prey to a rumour that train services were available for them to return back home.

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Only 52 passengers allowed in sleeper coaches and 28 in unreserved coaches