Today, the Australian newspaper (The Austrlian) website published a heavy news, pointing out that the ruling Alliance Party is considering introducing a new visa policy, for all PR applicants to add mandatory waiting period to save money!
Moreover, during the mandatory waiting period, the applicant cannot enjoy the full benefits!
This was confirmed in a draft just released by Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton: http://www.minister.border.gov.au/peterdutton/Pages/transforming-australias-visa-system-july17.aspx
Some of the existing visa categories already include mandatory waiting periods, such as spouse visas, whose applicants have to wait two years.
This, however, is not enough, says, Peter Dutton.
Peter Dutton
"most of the existing PR visa categories do not have a mandatory waiting period. In addition, applicants do not have a mandatory waiting period before applying for an PR or before signing a PR visa," he said.
"the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States and many other countries have more formal procedures for the application and evaluation of visas for permanent residence," he said.
As the Department of Immigration publishes this submission, all applicants for PR visas may be forced to wait in the future!
The immigration ministry says changes in visa policy will help save social spending. However, in a leaked cabinet document last year, the Ministry of Social Security warned that the move would be difficult to meet the immigration ministry`s goal of "saving benefits."
In addition, the Department of Social Security said the move would result in inequality in welfare treatment across Australian society, potentially affecting social unity and integration.
The Ministry of Social Security expressed concern about the visa reform policy proposed by the Department of Immigration. These reforms are the creation of double standards, and the Immigration Department`s move underestimates its negative impact on social integration and is likely to trigger violent extremism, "the ministry said.
Earlier, the Liberal goverment leaked a proposal to amend the existing Citizenship Act, in which the Liberal goverment required all PR to wait at least four years after making an application to become an Australian citizen.
One of the proposals is that all foreign residents should hold a temporary transition visa until they get a permanent residence in Australia, and that residents who hold a transitional visa should not benefit from goverment benefits during the transition period to help goverment save money.
Australia`s goverment predicts that by 2023, Australia will have more than 10 million temporary visa visitors and 40 million or 50 million international visitors. At the same time, Australia`s goverment will reduce the existing 99 visa categories to 10.
Goverment, Australia, will sign a contract with a private company to design and simplify the visa application process, according to Peter Dutton. (the government would enlist the private sector to modernise the visa application process)
"over the next two years, Australia`s goverment will fund a preliminary A $35 million study of the service," Petter Duntton said.
In recent years, conservative and populist forces have risen in the West, and a large number of politicians have begun to advocate xenophobic conservative immigration policies.
Prior to that, David Leyonhjelm, a Liberal Democrat in Australia, demanded that the goverment cut or even eliminate the welfare of all non-Australian citizens.
Senator Leyonhjelm, who advocates that "non-Australian citizens are not entitled to benefits," said the move would limit the arrival of those who are unable to earn a living in Australia and encourage migration within Australian society.
From July 1 this year, Australia began to implement a new visa policy. Earlier, Australian Prime Minister David Turnbull announced in April that in order to increase local employment opportunities, the Australian Federation goverment will cancel the "457 work visa" in place of a more stringent "TSS visa."
Turnbull also said that after the implementation of the new visa policy, for foreigners who have submitted a "457 visa" application but are still to be signed, if their occupational group is not on the new job list or does not meet the additional requirements for the corresponding post, The application will be rejected and the Immigration Service will refund the fee in full. Applicants who meet the new requirements can continue to submit applications until March 2018, when the "457 visa" was completely abolished and replaced by a "TSS visa".
Tan Bao and Peter Dutton
It is reported that Australia goverment cancels "457 visa", replaced by the new two-year visa and four-year visa. Under the new visa policy, Australian employers must first look for locals when recruiting skilled people and advertise for six months in local media under the supervision of the goverment. In addition, new two-year visa holders do not have the opportunity to apply for permanent residency.
For foreigners who want to apply for a four-year visa, the Australian goverment requires applicants to have relevant work experience and higher English skills, and IELTS needs to achieve a standard of above 6.0 points, whereas previously IELTS only had to meet the total score of 5. Listening, speaking, reading and writing items should be no less than 4.5 points. According to Australian Prime Minister John Turnbull, "the new visa will be based on the national interest, employing the best and the best."
From the list of occupations that came into effect on July 1st, the list of employers-guaranteed occupations has been reduced from more than 400 in the past to more than 200, and the new list of occupations will be named STSOL, which will be updated every six months.
Among them, the more popular professional types such as real estate agents, property managers, translators, import and export personnel, travel agency managers, sales representatives, hotel attendants and other professions have been removed; Professional manager, website developer, responsible for purchasing products and goods for retail companies, Jobs such as helicopter pilots and aircraft engineers are restricted to a two-year visa list-even for the position of chief executive-and require an annual salary of more than A $ one hundred and eighty thousand.
