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Study abroad in Australia every week there are a variety of major events happen, a week of events for you to choose the most important things!
Visa or conditions of residence to be attached
The new population, the minister Alan Tudge, said in recent days that the future government would place restrictions on visas to direct new immigrants to remote areas.
Alan Tudge said current population growth has been concentrated in Melbourne, Sydney and southeast Queensland, while in other parts of Australia, population growth has been extremely slow.
Australia`s government hopes that population growth will be wider in the future and that it will not continue to put pressure on big cities. To achieve this, he thinks the government can attach conditions to a visa to specify where the holder must work and live.
In addition, Alan Tudge also said that government does not intend to establish a special rural tax area.
He says the creation of special rural tax zones is not on government`s agenda. Australia already has a national tax system, and different states have different payroll taxes. Some states want to lower payroll taxes, which is what everyone wants, but the overall goal of the government is to achieve broad-based population growth.
Finally, the, Alan Tudge said the policies are under way and are expected to come out with details by the end of the year and are sure to be announced by the next general election at the latest.
Summary of up-to-date parents` immigration information
1. Parental immigration visa
On Wednesday, the Ministry of the Interior updated information on parental immigration visa quotas.
In 2018 / 2019, 1500 queued parental immigrants (including 103,804 visas) were planned to be issued;
Paying-for-parents immigrants (including 173 and 884 visas) plan to issue 7175.
Compared with paid parents immigration, queued parents` immigration costs are lower, but the waiting time is long. According to the current queue, applicants may have to wait 30 years.
Long-term stay visa for parents
During the 2016 federal election, Tan Bao government pledged to launch a five-year parental stay visa, which is expected to take effect July 1, 2017. But now that more than two years have passed, there is no result.
Recently, helpless visa supporters had to meet with shadow immigrant minister to express their appeal, urging government to honour its promise as soon as possible.
Arvind Duggal, the parent`s long-term resident visa promoter and promoter, said he was disappointed by the current delay in government, arguing that government had broken its commitment to multiculturalism and immigrant communities. Long-term stay visas for parents are real and reasonable and should be implemented immediately.
Mr Duggal also says they have been in contact with all major political parties since the last federal election. The parties attached importance to their parents` long-term residence visas and announced their plans for the visas.
Visa supporters also met with other Labour members on Thursday in the hope that their parents` long-term stay visas would be implemented as soon as possible.
About this visa, we have previously described in detail, poked here review.
The Green Party intends to oppose the naturalization reform proposal again
Immigrant minister David Coleman said in an interview this week that government would reconsider plans to tighten naturalization requirements. Coleman minister reiterated the importance of learning English, arguing that the more English he mastered, the more helpful it would be for life in Australia.
He also said a key part of the proposed government citizenship reform, which should have been voted on in parliament in the spring, is still under discussion, but did not say when it would be presented to parliament.
Senator Nick McKim, an immigration spokesman for the Green Party, said the government did not submit the bill to the Senate for debate because it did not have enough votes to guarantee its passage, otherwise it would have been submitted.
He also said that if the government postponed the debate, his Green Party would act again to remove it from the Senate notification document.
In October of last year, the 2.0 version of the government naturalization reform proposed that applicants would need to wait four years after receiving the PR and IELTS scored five points to become naturalized.
The Green Party, on the other hand, opposes independent English language tests, arguing that many people who have made outstanding contributions in history do not even have an elementary level of English.
In addition, the Green Party opposes allowing new immigrants to wait longer for naturalization and against legislation giving minister the authority on Australia`s citizen status ruling.
Western Australia opens up new ways for overseas students to emigrate
This week, Western Australia updated its state policy and added a graduate branch, providing international students with a new way to gain access to Australia`s PR.
Western Australia is divided into two general branches of stream:, the (The general stream) and the graduate branch, (The graduate stream). The two branches have their own nomination requirements and a list of applicable occupations.
With regard to the graduate branch that everyone cares about, there are several key issues to repeat:
- Work experience is required, but Masters and PhDs are exempt;
- Everyone must have a job offer; for at least 1 year.
- Completing at least two years of study in Western Australia and obtaining a degree in higher education;
- Fewer jobs can be nominated for undergraduate and GC,GD graduates;
- Everyone needs to meet the funding requirements.
Global MBA ranking 2019
Recently, QS released the 2019 global MBA ranking.
It is reported that the ranking of graduates based on employability, entrepreneurship and alumni scores of 251 well-known business schools in the world. A total of 13 colleges and universities in Australia are on the list.
The University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales entered the TOP 50 globally, ranking 28 and 39.
Monash University entered the TOP 100, ranking 87.
In addition, also ranked in the University of Macquarie, Queensland University, the National University of Australia and so on.
Thames 2019 World University rankings
This week, the Times THE 2019 World University ranking came out!
In the overall ranking, Australia this year nine schools broke into the global Top 200. The University of Melbourne kept Australia No. 1 and ranked 32nd in the world. ANU Australia ranked 49th in the world, down 1 place from last year.
In addition to the University of Melbourne and ANU, entering the global Top 200, the University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Monash University and so on.
In addition to the overall ranking, THE also gives scores for individual items. In the academic field, Australia occupies the absolute advantage of the eight major.
In the aspect of teacher-student ratio, the advantages of non-eight major schools are obvious.
In the proportion of international students, knowledge conversion ability, Australia eight and non-eight equinox spring and autumn, each has advantages.
The website of the Ministry of the Interior and the office model will be updated
The Ministry of the Interior recently announced that in order to ensure more convenient and efficient services, the network and on-site services will be reformed. Specifically:
Redesign official website
Before the Ministry of the Interior has been seeking outside advice, there is now a beta version of the website, you can visit. The new website is expected to be launched in November.
On-site business
From the end of 2018, customers who want to go to the Ministry of the Interior to do business must first make an appointment and get an invitation before they can do business.
Most visa applications are now submitted or mailed online. For those who are complex and need to go to the Home Office personally, such as collecting biometric information or taking naturalization tests, the Ministry of the Interior staff will make an appointment with the client and then either go in person or communicate by telephone.
