Aussie workers UK visa threat
May 5th 2010 | 6:09 pm
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Aussie workers UK visa threat
Cameron wants to stop Aussies coming to the UK and working. Is this going to upset the UK/Aus relationship down the track and I wonder how they would treat expats from UK who decide to return to UK after xx amount of years here.
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
THOUSANDS of Australians could have their hopes of working in Britain dashed if the Conservative Party wins today's general election.
David Cameron's Conservatives have promised to halve net immigration to Britain, largely through putting a new cap on the number of non-European workers allowed into the country.
The proposed cap has sparked angry protests from British employers, and Australian workers are among the main targets of the clampdown because Britain's membership of the EU stops it from closing the door to the 430 million citizens of the other 26 EU nations, The Australian reported.
David Cameron's Conservatives have promised to halve net immigration to Britain, largely through putting a new cap on the number of non-European workers allowed into the country.
The proposed cap has sparked angry protests from British employers, and Australian workers are among the main targets of the clampdown because Britain's membership of the EU stops it from closing the door to the 430 million citizens of the other 26 EU nations, The Australian reported.
May 5th 2010 | 6:11 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
Cameron wants to stop Aussies coming to the UK and working. Is this going to upset the UK/Aus relationship down the track and I wonder how they would treat expats from UK who decide to return to UK after xx amount of years here.
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
May 5th 2010 | 6:36 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
The difference would be that they would still be British, even if they have dual nationality, hence would be treated as such.
May 5th 2010 | 6:55 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
vote Labour
May 5th 2010 | 8:07 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
Cameron wants to stop Aussies coming to the UK and working. Is this going to upset the UK/Aus relationship down the track and I wonder how they would treat expats from UK who decide to return to UK after xx amount of years here.
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
May 5th 2010 | 8:19 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
UK has a respnsibility to issue Australians with at the very least a 2 year working holiday visa. Acenstry work permits should also not be canned. This will not go down well with the Government in Australia and New Zealand if Cameron wins.
May 5th 2010 | 8:43 pm
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It's something that Labour should have done years ago - control economic migration for the needs of the country. Australia has strict caps on many visa types, so the proposal is nothing more than already exists here. Perfectly fair approach, and makes more sense than what's been happening over the last decade.
May 5th 2010 | 8:50 pm
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Why should the UK have a responsibility to issue Australians working holiday visas?
Personally I think all migration to the UK should be scrapped until they find out who's in there at the minute. I read a report saying there was over a million illegals already in there. Surely these people need weeding out before more migrants cross the border.
May 5th 2010 | 8:50 pm
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The YMS/WHV has value for other reasons, and is doubtful that it would be got rid of (although it's interesting to note that for a long time Australia had a strict cap on these visas - NZ even stricter - but now the Australian WHV doesn't seem to (although the W&HV for a few other countries does)).
UK Ancestry visas, however, are fast becoming an out-of-date route for entry in my opinion.
May 5th 2010 | 8:57 pm
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Why do you think there are no decent WHV arrangements to the USA or for USA citizens coming here... they get an awkward 4 month thing. Australian doesn’t give them the right to a WHV as they don’t give us one. It works that way with most WHV agreements between countries.
May 5th 2010 | 11:50 pm
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
Cameron wants to stop Aussies coming to the UK and working. Is this going to upset the UK/Aus relationship down the track and I wonder how they would treat expats from UK who decide to return to UK after xx amount of years here.
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
Young Australians 'doing' Europe/UK is almost a rite de passage here before settling into the work environment.
http://www.news.com.au/business/tori...-1225862804579
I don't know if you've noticed, but brits don't have an easy time getting skilled visas to come to Australia.
Have a read up on reciprocity.
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May 6th 2010 | 12:00 am
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
There should be a Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement type agreement between the UK & Australia to allow free movement of citizens.
I don't think it's migrants from Australia which particularly upset the average Brit & vice versa. Both countries share a common heritage & language and migrants from one country are easily able to fit-in into the other.
I don't think it's migrants from Australia which particularly upset the average Brit & vice versa. Both countries share a common heritage & language and migrants from one country are easily able to fit-in into the other.
May 6th 2010 | 12:15 am
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Re: Aussie workers UK visa threat
There should be a Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement type agreement between the UK & Australia to allow free movement of citizens.
I don't think it's migrants from Australia which particularly upset the average Brit & vice versa. Both countries share a common heritage & language and migrants from one country are easily able to fit-in into the other.
I don't think it's migrants from Australia which particularly upset the average Brit & vice versa. Both countries share a common heritage & language and migrants from one country are easily able to fit-in into the other.
I was going to write a long reply but really I'm just lost for words!!
ViK2, excuse me for asking, but I do have a suspicion you may be neither British nor Australian???
