Mr Greg Barns, the president of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, has indeed confirmed that under the new Immigration Act, any non-Australians who have spent a period of twelve months or more in prison in Australia have a very big chance of being deported from the country.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) typically cancels anywhere from eight thousand to nine thousand visas in a year, however, in the latest figures that the Department came out with for the year ending June of 2015, it shows that there is a spike of thirty per cent in the number of visas that have been cancelled.
Nearly half of the number of those who can call themselves Australians are actually born overseas or at least have parents that have both been born overseas. These new Australians however, in-spite of the great contribution they have been giving to their adopted home, still face the very hard task of being taken in by our society.
New South Wales Skills Minister John Barilaro has highlighted the need for more foreign workers as almost half the nation’s young apprentices drop out of their training.
The number of Australian Temporary Work (Skilled) (Subclass 457) visa applications rose by 15% between 2014 and 2015, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Immigration Department.
On 27 May 2015, a new Work and Holiday arrangement was signed between Australia and the Slovak Republic, establishing a reciprocal Work and Holiday visa (subclass 462) arrangement between the two countries.
Australia has adopted a new student visa processing system that might make life a little easier for future students and higher education providers. The proposed new process, called, the simplified student visa framework (SSVF), will launch in July 2016 replacing the streamlined visa processing (SVP), which has been used since 2012.
Australia is looking for immigrants to come work in their hospitality and tourism industry. The hospitality industry has struck a deal with the Federal government last month to make it simpler to bring in foreign employees via the 457 skilled migration visa programs.
The Australian government has extended multiple entry visas to Chinese citizens from three to ten years in a move to better compete with the United States and Canada, who are also clamouring for more Asian tourists.
