Since last year, bad news about Australian immigrants has been coming:
First, skilled immigrants "go to the mountains and down the countryside", and then the immigration quota is slashed.
I thought a friend who wanted to emigrate to Australia could relax first, but who would have thought-
The bad news is coming again!
1, employer guarantee visa blocked!
Since March 18, 2018, the former 457 employer`s guarantee visa has been officially replaced by 482 (Temporary Skills Shortage Visa), all of which appear to cast a shadow over the employer`s guarantee visa.
However, it is true that many people must be aware that local guarantee qualified employers have to pay a large amount of Australian skills fund (SAF), if they want guarantee overseas employees to work in Australia. Companies with annual turnover of less than A $10 million will have to pay A $1200 a year for training, while companies with annual turnover of more than A $10 million or more will have a training fee of A $1800 per year.
Recently, however, news came from Australian media:
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Employers paid nearly A $8 million to hire skilled overseas immigrants to fill the job gap, but the applications were not only rejected by government, but government refused to refund the A $8 million visa fee!
It is reported that from mid-August to the end of December last year, companies across Australia submitted a total of 2137 applications for temporary skilled immigrants, but were rejected. The reason is unknown, but part of the reason is that advertisements circulating in the market are defective and cannot prove that no locals need the job.
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And the Home Affairs Department would not refund the 7.9 millon fee, leaving employers to pay for their own. The series of reasons has made 482 visas difficult. In short, employers are willing to hire their own overseas employees and pay for the fees, but the visas are often rejected.
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Alan Pittman, the head of a Sydney immigration agency that is helping hospitals and geriatric care institutions recruit overseas nurse to meet the requirements, also confirmed the news and said: "We have paid the visa fee. But I have not received any results, which will cause me a huge loss, which is not reasonable! "
In fact, skilled immigration has always been a political hot issue, and the policy has changed again and again, and the competition between political parties will also accuse each other of abusing 482 and 457 visas. And last month Bill short (Bill Shorten) and threat said: "if he wins the government election, he will continue to crack down on people with 457 visas!"
What kind of trouble is this to do, really do not give people a way to live?
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But while controversy over the issue continues, new data show that 482 visa grants increased by 28 percent in the nine months to the end of March (although the number of grants has been on a downward trend since 2013).
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Not only that, but last December, national councillor Nabbi Joyce (Barnaby Joyce) lobbied immigration minister David Coleman (David Coleman), on behalf of Debbie McCorvin (Debbie McCowen), chief executive of Aboriginal health services. They wanted to bring in an Indian nurse to work for Amidr, and have paid A $4800, but they were caught off guard by a new rule that required. Media ads to test the local labour market must include salary, in principle Coleman did not give in.
Although the nurse has experience in serving aborigines, having master degree, is also ideal for the job. It can be said that he has all the qualifications for a 482 visa, and only in the labor market test did not explain the salary problem. But for this reason alone, the nurse was shut out by the Australian government.
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And, just last night, speaker, a alliance woman, said, "We`re not going to apologize for putting Australian locals first, because we have to make sure we have a labor market test. And enterprises need to give priority to helping and training local workers! "
In other words: if you want to get a 482 visa now, the invisible threshold is even higher!
If there is any mistake, it may be shut out by the Migration Board!
In fact, since the 457 visa reform, fewer than 65000 visas have been issued between 2017 and 2018, far from the 2012 peak of 126000 in 2013.
The 482 visa is also one of the main ways for many Chinese students and technicians to emigrate to Australia.
Today, however, quotas are tighter and subsidies are decreasing year by year. Although employers are willing to hire overseas employees and pay corresponding visa fees, they have been obstructed by the local labour market. This makes the issuance of 482 visas more difficult, I wonder if the situation will improve after the election.
Finally, according to the current situation, it is becoming more and more difficult to emigrate to Australia. While all aspects of policy are tightening, the threshold is getting higher and higher.
That`s still the old saying-immigrants have to be early!
