1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (226+ words) UK Announces 3,000-Slot Young Professionals Scheme Ballot for Indians Opening 17 February'VisaHQ The United Kingdom has set the clocks ticking for Indian graduates and early-career professionals keen on gaining two years of UK work experience On 10 February, the Home Office confirmed…...

18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (290+ words) India-UK Young Professionals Scheme: February ballot dates confirmed'VisaHQ UK Visas & Immigration quietly updated its guidance on 10 February to confirm that the first 2026 ballot for the India Young Professionals Scheme (YPS) will open at 14:30 IST (09:00 GMT) on 17 February and close 48 hours…...

22+ hour, 22+ min ago   (260+ words) Canberra Urged to Turbo-Charge Skilled Migration as STEM Shortages Bite'VisaHQ Science & Technology Australia (STA) used its submission to Parliament's new inquiry into the economic value of skilled migration to sound the alarm on a looming talent crunch Released on 10 February…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (897+ words) Australia Tightens Student-Visa Gateways With Higher Fees and New "Genuine Student" Test'VisaHQ A wave of new student-visa rules unveiled on 8 February 2026 puts Australia in the same "high-scrutiny" club as the United States, Canada and the UK The headline changes include…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (274+ words) Canada Simplifies Study-Permit Attestation Rules for Joint Programs and Grad Students'VisaHQ Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has quietly adjusted the instructions officers use to assess study-permit applications, with immediate effect for files received on or after 1 January 2026 The biggest…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (258+ words) Italy Opens 2026 Seasonal Work-Permit "Click Day" With Record 88,000 Quotas'VisaHQ Italy's annual "click day' season is back'and bigger than ever Applications are processed strictly in the order they are received via the Interior Ministry's portal; last year the agricultural tranche filled…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (237+ words) SBS podcast unpacks Skills-in-Demand visa replacing subclass 482VisaHQ In its 6 February episode, SBS Indonesian interviewed registered migration agent Betsy Koffell about Australia's new Skills-in-Demand (SID) visa, the policy centrepiece of the Migration Strategy that came into force on 7 December 2024 and is…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (186+ words) France Confirms 2026 Salary Benchmarks for "Talent" and EU Blue Card Permits'VisaHQ Jobbatical's immigration blog confirmed on 6 February that the French government will maintain its recently-indexed salary thresholds for the country's flagship work-authorisation routes throughout 2026 The reference wage for the "Talent…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (307+ words) IRCC has changed study-permit rules so that international students in joint programs now need only one provincial or territorial attestation letter instead of multiple letters. The switch cuts costs and processing time for approximately 12,000 students a year and helps schools…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (506+ words) Student-visa providers face stricter oversight as ILEP list updated'VisaHQ The Interim List of Eligible Programmes (ILEP)Ireland's register of courses that can recruit non-EEA studentswas updated on 6 February 2026, tightening reporting obligations for colleges and language schools Providers must now notify…...