It is a cliché that the developments in telecommunications and transportation over the past two decades have meant that the world is becoming ever smaller, yet with the advances of the internet into the farthest corners of the globe, this is certainly more true than ever. The age old debate between economics and politics has resulted in a ‘push and pull’ effect on many paradigms, perhaps none more affected than the topic of global immigration. While on one hand global business and most economists welcome a compressed or flat world where it is now possible to fly from the US to the UK in six hours, politicians the world over are concerned over the increasing ability of foreign nationals to move around the world with ease. Following the events of 9/11 and the 2008 recession, we see a further tightening of immigration rules across the globe. This is true across most countries and territories, and not only in Europe and the US.