This week, a number of key officials from the Home Office attended a Senate hearing to explain to the Senate all aspects of their work for the fiscal year, and senators asked a number of hot issues of concern to immigrants. Next, let's take a look at some of the key points:
Ministry of the Interior officers present at the hearing:
First of all, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the actual amount of PR issued in the current fiscal year will be further reduced from 183608 of the previous fiscal year, about one hundred and seventy thousand, because the visa processing in this fiscal year has become more stringent!
According to the latest figures as of April 30, 2018, 138086 green cards were issued this year, of which 91302 were for skilled immigrants, 44193 for family migrants and 2591 for children.
NewStars previously obtained FOI data from ISCAH as follows: as of March 31, 2018, 80249 skilled immigrants had been granted PR,39892 family migrants, 2258 children had emigrated, and a total of 122399 PR visas (excluding special categories) had been issued.
As a result, the PR volume for April is shown below: April is basically maintained for the first eight months, and according to our signed summary, May should increase.
Ministry of the Interior official Dacey said there would be more obvious changes in immigration programs in the weeks at the end of the fiscal year, and his remarks were interrupted, which NewStars said could involve accelerated recent trials, as the number of more than 20, 000 PR has been reduced by more than 20, 000 this year. The trial at the end of this year was much less stressful than before, so the trial of the PR. has been significantly accelerated in the last two months
Therefore, it can be expected that in May and June, 189 and 190 trial progress should be faster, of course, the submission of complete materials as a prerequisite.
Interior Secretary General Michael Pezzullo said the decline in permanent residence visas this year was due to the goverment's improved immigration inspection mechanism by comparing information in the database, which means that the audit has become stricter.
The Secretary-General said it was using relatively isolated and stand-alone systems, but now connecting to a more intelligent database makes it easier to spot more problems. " Applications for skilled / family / child immigrants are more complex than they were before and more potential risks have been identified as a result of technical improvements. "
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But he also affirmed the value of immigrants, who account for more than 50% of the population growth, so migration is crucial to creating new jobs. This view is consistent with the conclusion of the joint report of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance that the first launch! the goverment official newspaper insists that the one hundred and ninety thousand PR will remain the same every year! Immigrants bring in nearly 7 billion revenue and create 65% of new jobs! Did not steal the Australian job, contribution far outweighs the burden!
Michael Pezzullo was also asked at the hearing whether the Ministry of the Interior had given the interior minister the option of reducing the PR quota for the Peter Dutton, and he did not deny that it was normal for his staff to provide the minister with options. "We need to develop normal options for ministers to maintain the annual budget cycle."
The application for naturalization will take 16 months!
Asked by Senator WATT about the significant delay in naturalization, Mansfield, the official in charge, said the waiting time for naturalization applications in the past 12 months has indeed been extended, and that by April it would have to wait 16 months.
There are three main reasons for the extension of the waiting time: first, the Ministry of the Interior has stepped up the scrutiny of the applicant's integrity; and second, the number of applications this year has been rising when the original number of applications is very large (not that you have said you want to reform the frightened.); Third, the number of applications that came to Australia many years ago is unclear, and the Home Office will spend more time investigating them (the again, is likely to be spooked by reforms again).
And he said that from July 2011 to March 31, 2010, the number of employees in charge of processing naturalization applications increased by 16 percent, unlike delays due to layoffs said.
Here's the point. He said that the Ministry of the Interior had submitted views to the Minister on naturalization reform. As for the English requirements, he said that they had a follow-up study on how high the English requirements were appropriate. But only to say that in March, the Minister of Citizenship said "modest," the IELTS quartile.
According to previous sources, the report on a new round of naturalization requests will not be released until December, with early online polls showing nearly 90 percent opposition to the reform.
The importance of immigrants to Australia's Employment
According to a report he received, Senator WATT said employment growth over the past five years came from 850000 new immigrants, according to (recent migrants),.
Russo, an interior ministry official, agrees that immigrants will contribute even more if they look at full-time employment alone, with 72 percent of new jobs created by immigrants. (for a detailed analysis, see Article 4 today)
Housing requirements of migrants in remote areas
The chairman of the hearing asked for an explanation of the recent discussion of "forcing immigrants to stay in remote areas". At first, the Secretary-General did not want to say more, but said only that the Minister of Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs might want to study a direction. That is, let immigrants "not for money purposes" stay in remote areas.
Following repeated inquiries by the President, the Secretary-General said that he would not give more information than the Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, but that the situation of immigrants in major cities was very serious, and their survey found that 83 per cent of overseas births knew that they lived in capital cities. As a whole, 2/3 of Australians live in capital cities.
Furthermore, restrictions on the legal problems faced by migrants in remote areas cannot violate the constitutional provisions on freedom of movement, and the Secretary-General said that he had received hundreds of opinions, One of them is to consider setting up Qualifying period (, which is similar to the two-year residence and work requirement now transferred from 489 to 887)
Why didn't one hundred and ninety thousand PR be issued in the last fiscal year and this fiscal yea
As we all know, in the past two years, the actual integration of immigrants is less than one hundred and ninety thousand, which greatly reduces the significance of the existence of the one hundred and ninety thousand PR figure. The number of immigrants absorbed each year is no longer as clear as before. Only senior goverment officials are aware of it.
The Secretary-General recalls that the concept changed after the change of ministers in fiscal year 2014, when goverment was in a position to manage and avoid risks and changed the concept.
As a result of the further decline in PR releases this year, Golightly, an official, said they needed to balance the increasingly complex management of caseload on the one hand, and the increasing number of applications on the other hand, which had balanced the risks involved in the case. We need to review each application carefully, and many applications have quality problems and incomplete materials that affect the final number of approvals.
Over the past few years, goverment has launched several information and intelligence collection systems, which will include instant intelligence and data, and if these systems trigger reminders when a visa officer tries a case, the (Hit), will need to deal with the problem. This will take up more time than ever before.
But the Senator KIM CARR questions that none of these changes were made overnight, so the effect (the PR drop) is so quick whether the interior ministry has deliberately cut it through other measures, but it has not announced it.
Immigration officials did not respond positively to the question, saying only that the quota had been changed from the target to the top, plus a more stringent censorship system, which had resulted in fewer than one hundred and ninety thousand migrants being approved over the past two years.
Visa priority for Family Migration analogies
Priority for spouse and child migration, followed by orphan adoption visa, paid parental immigration, guardianship visa, final average parent immigration, and final family member category.
The problem of PR transition period
Senator KIM CARR asked 55 percent against setting a transitional period for the PR, or provisional period, worried that the interior ministry had already decided on a transitional period, and that the secretary-general said it was not up to them to decide on their own, or to follow feedback.
Refugee plan
The goverment's previous plan to receive an additional 10,002 signatures of refugees from Syria and Iraq has been fully processed and the project has been closed.
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