For Chinese and international students who want to work in Australia, the day-to-day focus is on work visas.
Now the good news is that Australia`s government has finally relaxed its visa policy!
According to the Daily Mail, the new immigration visa policy will allow foreign skilled workers who work on farms and travel vacations to stay in Australia for up to four years.
The SBS: government relaxed the new visa policy to help farmers and football clubs hire more workers.
The new news: visa policy will affect the agriculture, sports and arts sectors.
Immigration minister David Coleman said the main reason for the new visa policy was a shortage of labour.
Before the visa restrictions were changed, government received many complaints from local farmers.
They say there are so few workers that it takes them a long time to finish the work during the harvest season.
Even if people can be hired, most of these employees are inexperienced, so a series of training is needed.
When the employees finally became skilled at their jobs, their visas almost expired and only leave Australia.
So when the next harvest season arrives, the farm will be faced with no workers again.
In the long run, this cycle will have a great impact on Australia`s agriculture!
So, in order to ensure that Australia`s agriculture can continue to develop, the government can only modify its visa policy in the hope of attracting more experienced overseas workers.
Around January, the government has relaxed two plans to restrict the introduction of temporary farm workers into Australia, as well as lifting the cap on visas for workers in specific countries.
But because the results are not significant, government has once again updated its visa content to allow overseas employees with travel and vacation visas to work longer hours in Australia.
At the same time, the restrictions on the industry have also been relaxed.
Eight professions in sports and the arts, such as football players, tennis coaches, or art directors, are on the list of skills for long-term work, government said.
Overseas employees in these industries will have the opportunity to obtain up to eight years of work visas.
Government officials say they hope to bring in and train more people to stay in Australia.
In addition to relaxing restrictions on holiday visas for agriculture, sports and the arts, government has also revised the criteria for the medical sector.
For example, people who work in dentists, anesthesiologists, and so on can get work visas more easily.
Some overseas doctors who are in the training period need to work in the suburbs or rural areas, and then they can be converted into general practitioners.
However, after the government relaxed restrictions on work visas this time, many locals are also starting to worry that their jobs are likely to be taken away by overseas workers.
Experts also said the industry would still consider local staff first in hiring, so don`t worry too much.
To ensure that the policy is implemented, the government will also set up a new Australian skills Authority to test the labour market, identify the talent needed in each region, and issue work visas as needed.
But in general, the new visa policy has given many overseas workers a lot of opportunities, as well as more opportunities for overseas students who want to get a job visa.
