Month: November 2020

A charter flight carrying 63 international students has landed in Darwin from Singapore.

The Morrison Government is making further changes to the Family visa program to support applicants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Xitao Jiang is one of up to 70 international students expected to arrive in Australia on a charter flight.

You want to go study in Australia, good news Australians now allow foreign students to have a visa! The COVID-19 crisis has forced many countries to close their borders. In Australia, at the onset of the crisis, the government decided to ban foreigners from entering the country. Since this summer, the country once again allows foreign students to apply for a visa in order to come and study.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, about two in every five international students enrolled in Australian higher education institutions were from mainland China.

With the support of a Labor MP, couples are pushing for changes to Australia’s offshore partner visa rules to stop the applicant having to leave Australia during the coronavirus pandemic to have their visa granted.

Labor’s innovation spokeswoman says immigration changes are needed to allow more skilled permanent migrants into the country to boost manufacturing, science and technology.

Partners of Australians are being forced to spend thousands of dollars flying overseas and back again during the pandemic because of a bureaucratic Australian visa regulation branded “ridiculous and idiotic”.

Universities want international students to return to campus in early 2021 if it is safe to do so.