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Just a few hours ago, the Australian goverment suddenly made a big move!
Immigration will open a new channel for skilled immigrants! Hi-tech talent visa! It is expected to be launched on July 1st this year!
This news a place, the IT circle, the biotechnology circle, the medical circle and other high-tech circles are boiling! This is the best news I've heard since the 457 visa hit last year!
Let's take a look at what this new visa is going to look like:
- The only requirement for this visa (for the time being called high-end skilled immigrants) is three years of relevant industry experience and an Australian company willing to pay an annual salary of more than one hundred and eighty thousand Australian dollars.
- This visa has certain requirements for the applicant's employer and business, the company must have an annual turnover of more than 4 million, obtain the relevant industry or goverment authorization (the terms of the start-up company will be relaxed), and promise to hire Australian citizens first;
- There is no total limit on the visa, but the number of immigrants guaranteed by individual companies is limited. Each employer can accept up to 20 high-end skilled immigrants a year, and start-ups can accept up to five high-end skilled immigrants a year.
- After 3 years of obtaining this high-end skilled immigrant, you can apply for permanent resident status.
Australia's government suddenly decided to enact such a new immigration visa.
Last year, Australia's goverment overhauled its 457 visa, cutting the list of independent skilled immigration jobs by nearly 1/3 and restricting invitations.
In the past year, the vast majority of international students have the most experience, the scores continue to rise, waiting for the flowers to thank, is really exhausted.
Goverment's policies have not only broken the hearts of foreign students, but also shut out some of the high-end technologists, leaving some important companies in Australia bitterly. In particular, IT, biomedicine, agricultural technology and other new enterprises, facing a serious talent gap.
Atlassian, Australia's famous software development company, for example, is pressing goverment, along with other IT companies, to protest against goverment's unreasonable decision on skilled immigration policy. For these IT companies, programmers, data scientists, product managers are simply the lifeblood of the company, and overseas IT talent is a very important part of their human resources. So goverment's decision on a 457 visa hit the company's core competitiveness.
Under the pressure of a number of trade unions, the Immigration Board has also been trying to make up for it, and Temporary Skill Sortage Visa's 482 visa came into effect on March 18, replacing the original 457 visa.
Specific application rules for a 482 visa: http://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/482
However, this is not a complete solution to Australia's local high-tech industry talent gap. To make matters worse, other countries have introduced preferential immigration policies to attract high-end talent, fuelled by the global high-end talent program, which has led to the outflow of some of Australia's most desirable high-end talent.
Under the double blow of domestic and foreign troubles, Australia and New Zealand's technology industry has also begun to show a retrenchment trend. As a result, attracting talent has become an urgent problem for Australia's goverment.
Tan Bao goverment urgently launched this new high-tech talent immigration visa, in order to compete with other countries for high-end technical talent. In addition, for biomedical, agricultural technology and other STEM companies, Australia's goverment will also introduce another new policy to address the shortage of talent.
The statement by the Minister of Citizenship, Alan Tudge, also noted that we must ensure that Australia's businesses are able to have the world's best talent, as it is the key to supporting enterprise development, job creation and industrial upgrading. "
The list of specific industries and positions on this high-end technology migration is still in the process, but it is believed that the government is really aware of the importance of talent.
Australia's immigration policy is changing day by day! However, if you are an excellent person, you will not be afraid of Australia not to leave you in the future!
