The UK’s 10-Year Settlement Rule Was Meant to Start in April. It Still Hasn’t. If you have been told that the UK’s settlement rules changed this year, they have not. If you have been told to rush an application in before April 2026, that date has passed — and nothing was laid before Parliament to … Read more
A Valid Iqama Is No Longer Enough in Saudi Arabia — Qiwa Now Removes You From Your Employer’s Records Automatically There is a sentence in Saudi Arabia’s new labour rules that undoes an assumption almost every expatriate worker in the Kingdom is carrying around. Your iqama being valid does not mean your work permit is. … Read more
Germany Changed Four Immigration Laws in One Week — and the Biggest One Does Nothing for Your Current Permit Germany Immigration Law Changes 2026 In the last days of July, Germany published four separate pieces of legislation that between them reshape parts of its immigration system. Three weeks later, most English-language guides to working in … Read more
Kuwait Now Charges KD150 to Convert a Visit Visa — and Hundreds of Applications Have Already Been Rejected On 2 August, Kuwait published a rule that a lot of people read as good news and a lot of agents immediately started selling as an open door. Within four days, residency offices across all six governorates … Read more
Portugal Abolished Its Job-Seeker Visa in October — the Replacement Still Cannot Be Issued, and People Are Being Sold It Anyway If someone has offered to arrange a Portugal job-seeker visa for you in the last few months, they are offering something no consulate can currently issue. That is not a warning about scams in … Read more
New Zealand Opens Residence to Tradespeople Without Degrees on 24 August — and One List Decides Who Is Locked Out For three years, New Zealand residence has run on a single arithmetic: six points, earned mostly through qualifications, registration or income. If you were a welder with fifteen years on the tools and no degree, … Read more
Italy’s Next Click Day Is in January — But the Applications That Win It Are Built in October Italy will open around 165,850 legal work places to non-EU nationals in 2027. The applications are submitted on four fixed mornings in January and February. And by the time those mornings arrive, the outcome is largely already … Read more
Australia Just Re-Sorted Its Skilled Visa Queue — and Offshore Applicants Went to the Back If you have a skilled visa or nomination sitting with the Department of Home Affairs, something changed on 25 July 2026 that nobody wrote to tell you about. Your eligibility did not change. Your documents did not change. Your position … Read more
The UAE Started Issuing Visit Visas to Pakistanis Again — Here’s the Part Nobody Is Telling Job Seekers For the first time in months, Pakistani families are getting UAE visit visas approved again — and within hours of the news breaking, WhatsApp groups filled with a very different message: Dubai visa khul gaya, ab kaam … Read more
Romania’s Work Permit System Changes on 8 August — and One List Now Decides Most Applications In three days, the process that got tens of thousands of non-EU workers into Romania stops existing. From 8 August 2026, there is no separate employment permit, no old multi-step route, and one government list decides whether most job … Read more