Australia Immigration News

Australia Grants Record Number of Visitor Visas June 30, 2016

The Australia High Commission’s latest announcement stated that 1, 50, 000 Indians used visitor visa program in the year 2015-16.The recently appointed Indian-origin High Commissioner Harinder Sidhu stressed the importance of growth factors and ties between both the countries.Visiting 1, 50,000 people in a year indic...

Australia - Immigration officials involved in visa fraud June 28, 2016

Australia Immigration popular for point-based immigration system is under fire for fraudulent practices by immigration officials.The investigation report revealed that the immigration officials are involved in 132 visa issuing cases related to a student and skilled visas.Immigration Department chief Michael Pezzullo in...

New Guidelines for Australia Employers to Sponsor Foreign Workers June 21, 2016

Australian employers, who recruit foreign nationals to work in its industries, must qualify new guidelines set by the Australia Immigration.All the accredited companies which maintain long term relationship with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) can benefit, but that will not impact processing ...

Australia Plan to Introduce New Skilled Occupation List June 04, 2016

The Australian immigration department is planning to implement the new Skilled Occupation List with effect from July 2016. The rapid development of industrialization has created a shortage in skilled labor in Australia. So, the Australian government has planned to introduce an innovative immigration approach for the sk...

DIBP has released latest Skilled Occupations List (SOL) for this year May 20, 2016

The Australian immigration Department (DIBP) has released its new Skilled Occupations List (SOL) for this year.This let would come into effect from 1st July this year. The list of skilled occupations would be used for 489 skilled regional provisional visa, 189 skilled independent visa and 485 graduate temporary visa ap...

India has emerged as the biggest source of migrants to Australia May 17, 2016

According to the new Australian High Commissioner to India, Harinder Sidhu, there has been the threefold increase in Indo born Australians in the previous ten years with the country now becoming home for few half of million immigrants from India.There are around 53,000 Indian students and around 2.33 lakh visas were gr...

Role of Australia in harnessing young talent from India May 14, 2016

Creating employment and delivering education for India’s vast army of young individuals is an international challenge. And Australia is playing a role of harnessing the talent from the subcontinent.According to the Director of Australia India Institute, Professor Criag Jeffery, Indian leaders are all ears on the requ...

Australia has to invest $99.2 million for the fraud detection in visa applications May 13, 2016

The Australian government has taken some necessary steps for the reformation of immigration policies. The federal government will provide $99.2 million financial support to the immigration department for the fraud detection in visa applications. This will help to weed out the visitors who pose some terror and criminal ...

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