As 2023 Q1 saw a world moving away from restrictive mobility due to the global pandemic, with international borders opening, significant trade and travel corridors being utilized in ways they hadn’t seen since 2019, and concessions in both immigration and visa rules that were inexorably linked to the early stages of a world in pandemic being removed, 2023 Q2 carries on with that trend.

This is the second installment in a four-paper series that reviews over 130 news items, government announcements, and public policy changes and thematically links them to present an immigration and visa global state of play. In this paper, Newland Chase focus on the Economic Face of Immigration and Travel.