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Salaries for migrant skilled employees will not undercut Australian wages August 30, 2014

Minimum Salary for Foreign Skilled Employees Must Be Equal to Australian Staff

Michaelia Cash, Australian Assistant Immigration Minister, has announced that the minimum salary paid for foreign skilled workers must be similar to Australian staff, according to the new immigration agreements. Employers will be expelled, if they pay fewer wages to the foreign skilled employees than locals.In a press ...

New airports in Northern Australia to boost tourism sector, experts reveal August 23, 2014

Northern Australia needs new airports to enhance tourism

Northern Australia’s tourism plans to set up new additional international airports and lesser arrival fees for tourists.The Federal Government has plans to develop Northern Australia with an aim of attracting two million foreign tourists annually into the region. Joint selection committee of the region is expected ...

Australia allows immigrants to take citizenship tests locally August 20, 2014

Australian immigrants to take citizenship tests locally

Australia has announced that residents of some areas of regional Australia will be allowed to take Australian citizenship test at their local Medicare service centers or Centrelink.Australia’s immigration minister, Scott Morisson said that government offers 29 service centers for citizenship tests all through Austral...

Northern Australia to have easy access to foreign workers August 11, 2014

Northern Territory to have simplified access to foreign workers

The Government of Australia will simplify the process towards hiring guest workers for Northern Australia employers as the gas project has created shortage in labor.Northern Territory has been approved choice under the first alleged ‘designated area migration agreement’.The agreements have been planned to release b...

Speculations rife on relaxation of Australian visa rules August 07, 2014

Speculations rife on relaxation of Australian visa rules - Australia Immigration

Rumours are rife that Australia is most likely to relax the stringent immigration laws. It is known that hundreds of visa applications are pending at the high commission over the existing tight visa policies. The sources said that over 90% applicants are from China and entrepreneurs by profession who intend to invest i...

Australia issued permanent residency to 5000 skilled Irish people in 2013 August 05, 2014

Australian Permanent Residency granted to 5,000 skilled Irish in 2013

The latest statistics of Australia’s Department of Immigration reveals that Australian permanent residency was granted to around 5,000 Irish-born people in 2013, which includes approximately 1,650 family members.Around 4,784 nativeIrishpeople have added permanently to the resident population of Australia in betwe...

Australian work visas incline to increase by millions August 05, 2014

Work visas of Australia tend to rise by millions

Australia could be overwhelmed with millions of additional foreign workers in the coming five years, according to an agency of federal government.Over 1 million foreign workers having work rights or 10 percent of the nation’s work force are in Australia on temporary visas.Executive of the Fair Work Ombudsman, Natal...

More nations to avail Australian e-visa technology August 02, 2014

Australia announces e-visa technology to more nations

The Australian officials have announced that an additional of 66 nations and territories will be able to use online visitor visa applications.Michaelia Cash, Australia’s Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, said that the nations including New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya, the Philippines, Herzego...

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