Dubbing the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List (PMSOL) as ‘outdated’, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has replaced it with a renewed visa processing system that will prioritise education and health professionals followed by employer sponsored visas. HIGHLIGHTS The health and education sectors will receive the highest priority when it comes to visa processing. During…
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Overseas citizens trying to secure Australian visas are having their applications processed quicker, with 25 per cent of the huge backlog slashed in the past few months. Labor has accused the former coalition government of “deliberately neglecting” immigration after cutting visa wait times since June. Immigration Minister Andrew Giles outlined the figures at the Committee…
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Sydney University is set to move exams back on campus after months of remote assessments led to hundreds of students being reported for using banned materials and devices during online tests. More than 1400 online exam breaches by students were reported at the university in the past two years, prompting concerns remote test-taking had “normalised…
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Australia’s ‘Business Innovation and Investment Program,’ allows recipients to live and run a business in Australia. After five years, visa recipients can apply for citizenship status. (Mint) Student from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka have had their request for student visa for Australia’s vocational to higher education declined. The international visa for vocational students in…
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Home Affairs is desperately trying to cope with a huge surge in overseas student visa applications, many lured by the prospect of unlimited work rights. Dr Abul Rizvi reports. AFTER FORMER Prime Minister Scott Morrison famously told temporary entrants in Australia to ‘go home’, denied most universities JobKeeper and denied any real support for temporary…
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Australia’s Immigration Minister has assured WA businesses crying out for workers that the visa application backlog inherited by the Albanese Government should be at a “manageable” level by Christmas. Andrew Giles, in Perth to hear from local employers, said there were about one million applications waiting to be dealt with when Labor came to power…
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Over on ABC radio RN Breakfast, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil is talking about the migration reform review the government has just announced. The review will look at the visa system, how people interact with it, as well as the potential for criminals to take advantage of loopholes to traffic people. The review is also…
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The urgent priority should simply be to bring into the country as many qualified people across as many fields as needed, as fast as possible. Two years of international border closures that locked out migrants and led to labour and skills shortages across the economy makes it difficult to fathom Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil’s…
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AUSTRALIA’S 2022-23 Migration Program will be vastly different to the 2021-22 program, not just in size but also in composition. The 2022-23 program has been increased to 195,000 after the 2021-22 program was delivered at 143,556 places — some 16,500 less than the planning level of 160,000. While the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) suggests…
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AUSTRALIAN VISITOR VISA WAIT TIMES REVEALED New report shows Chinese tourists waited four months for visas. Visitor numbers are also well down compared to pre-COVID levels. Travellers eager to visit Australia this year waited months to get their visas approved, with most Chinese citizens left in limbo for four months, a new report shows. The…
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