Today, the Australian local media released amazing news!
(The Age), a time newspaper owned by Fairfax Media, said that since last year, the number of applications approved for Chinese immigrants to naturalize in Australia has plummeted like a cliff.
The The Age began by confessing that the collapse in Chinese immigration applications to Australia was a backdrop of growing tensions between Australia and China and the debate in Australian politics about immigration.
According to information obtained by The Age from the Australian Ministry of Internal Affairs, as of August this year, only 1559 Chinese applications for Australian citizenship had been approved, compared with the number of Chinese applicants approved last yea
It`s 6500.
The Age further revealed that of the 10000 requests for naturalization from China in previous years, about 8,000 were approved. In 2012-2016, the number of applications submitted by Chinese residents accounted for 6% of all Australian naturalization applications, which is higher than that of Chinese as a percentage of the Australian population. (in the 2016 Australian population Census, 509555 people in Australia were born in China`s mainland. (2.2% of the population), and the number of Chinese applicants granted citizenship, which is about 6% of the total, is relatively fair.
But while the number of Chinese naturalisation applicants has remained stable since last year, the number of approved applicants has plummeted to less than 3% of the total.
From 6% to 3%, from 6500 to 1599, this number is no longer halved, it is cut below the knee!
Of course, 1599 is only for the first eight months of this year, but if you want to catch up with last year`s level, unless the remaining four and a half months of this year, the Australian Ministry of Internal Affairs has issued more than 4500 visas to Chinese applicants.
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The cake is so big, the Chinese applicants are fewer, the others are naturally more, where are the extra places?
The The Age found that the number of Indian applicants rose from 15% to 18%, UK applicants from 14% to 16%, and South African applicants from 3% to 5%, nearly doubling.
As we can see from the picture below, the total number of naturalization applications approved by Tan Bao government has been significantly reduced since he came to power.
But in terms of approval rates, the decline in Chinese applicants was the biggest, while other ethnic groups did not decline, but increased.
Tan gave a speech during a visit to Australian universities last week, giving high praise and praise to Chinese students as his attempt to repair Sino-Australian relations.
The Australian Chinese community is still anxious, and it is believed that Australian-Chinese diplomatic relations are affecting the lives of Chinese in Australia and the process of applying for citizen citizenship.
The former president of the Canberra multiculturalism Forum, Mr. (Sam Wong AM) Wong, a famous Australian overseas Chinese who served in the Australian Federal Department of Health and received a federal medal, told reporters that the past two years have been the worst two years he has ever experienced!
"I have lived in Australia for 45 years, and the last two years have been the worst two years I have ever experienced. I just hope this (very low rate of naturalization approval) is not due to Sino-Australian diplomatic relations. "
Zoe Ma was born in China. 17 months ago, she submitted an application for naturalization, hoping to become an Australian citizen. For this reason, she did not even return to visit her elderly grandmothe
"once I leave Australia, they will stop processing my application," Zoe said.
(image shows Zoe Ma, photos from The Age)
Her grandmother died last month.
I am so sad that no one told me how long to wait.
On the other hand, British applicants can be processed quickly, and their efficiency can be described as a "second batch".
Mr. Lai and his wife had submitted an application for naturalization to Australia.
"Last year, our family submitted their applications on the same day and passed the naturalization test in three days," he said. My application for naturalization was granted within four months, and my wife had waited 16 months for it to come to an end. Our only difference is our original nationality. "
Mr. Lai`s wife is from Hong Kong, China.
(Mr. Lai`s family, photo from SBS)
The Age said Australian politicians` vigilance against China peaked in May, when Liberal MP Andrew Hastie used his parliamentary prerogatives to accuse a prominent Chinese-born Australian businessman as a spy for bribery. Tan Bao government then introduced what is called the world`s most comprehensive anti-foreign interference law.
Of course, the official statement is "not directed at China". In yesterday`s report, we mentioned that Australia has a large number of immigration applications awaiting processing, and quoted the figure of 189000.
However, according to new material released by The Age today, the number of people actually waiting on the application form is as high as 241606!
When Tembo came to power in 2015, the figure was still 45985, and the ruling Liberal Party blamed Labour for bringing in 50000 refugees, and the government needed to identify them.
This has led to a slow migration process. Labour responded forcefully, saying the Liberal Party`s government had to explain this. Labour MP Julian Hill said, "the mysterious collapse in the number of Chinese permanent residents granted naturalization is a very serious problem. The relevant minister must answer.
The Australian Audit Office is about to investigate the matter.
Today`s sharp comments
We do not know what exactly caused the collapse in the number of applications approved for Chinese naturalization in Australia, but this is very similar to a period in Australia`s history, when we wanted to settle in Australia. Must pass a so-called "listening test", immigration officials read 50 words, the testers must write all the words, the terrible thing is, these words are not limited to English, if the testers really have written them, Immigration officers can continue to test in another language until you fail to answer and be legitimately deported. We were called "Yellow Peril" at that time, and Australian officials blatantly declared that "human equality applies only between the British and the Chinese, and that this principle is not applicable to the British and the Chinese." During that period, the Chinese were systematically discriminated against by Australia`s government and persecution, and that period was called the White Australia Policy period. Whatever the purpose of the current Australian government is to do these inexplicable moves, injured, are those of us who want to have a good life in Australia.
