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Australia Immigration

Australian visas: What’s changing from July 1

The visa changes will affect prospective skilled migration visa applicants, businesses sponsoring skilled migrants, as well as all points-test based visa applications. From 1 July 2018, many governmental initiatives will be implemented which will deeply impact Australia’s migrant community. This includes a series of reforms on various skilled visa categories in Australia’s migration program. The […]
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Victorian law graduate born in India wins Miss Universe Australia

She’s interned for the United Nations, spent her gap year volunteering for the State Emergency Service and she’s about to be admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court. Now, 26-year-old Melbourne public servant Priya Serrao can add Miss Universe Australia to her impressive resume, joining luminaries like Jennifer Hawkins, Erin McNaught and Jesinta Franklin […]
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Trump says ‘much can be learned’ from Australia’s immigration policy. Migrants subjected to it have set themselves on fire

(CNN)United States President Donald Trump has found the one immigration policy more controversial than his own, and endorsed it. Amid heightened media scrutiny over the tragic fate of a father and daughter who died on the US-Mexico border, Trump tweeted pictures of four fliers distributed by the Australian government warning migrants away from attempting to […]
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‘Too few cooks’: Chefs demand cuts to visa red tape

For leading restaurants weighed down by restrictive and inefficient visa regulations, it may be a case of too few cooks spoil the broth. Chef and restaurateur Luke Mangan said a shortage of chefs and waitstaff in the hospitality industry made businesses such as his reliant on foreign workers. This included South Korean chef Carlos Byeon, […]
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Coalition abandons tougher English test for migrants

This time last year, the Coalition was said to be considering a basic English test for all new permanent migrants amid concerns that by 2021, more than one million ­people in Australia could have ­little or no English skills: The move to consider mandating English language tests beyond citizenship applicants and apply a basic conversational language […]
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