Visa Changes
Feb 7th 2010 | 3:27 pm
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Visa Changes
Anybody seen the news about the major changes to the visa process. 20,000 are going to be kicked off the current waiting list and handed their money back.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Feb 7th 2010 | 3:29 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
Yes. There are a couple of threads about it in the immigration bit. I think there are quite a few upset people around.
Feb 7th 2010 | 3:29 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
Anybody seen the news about the major changes to the visa process. 20,000 are going to be kicked off the current waiting list and handed their money back.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Feb 7th 2010 | 3:29 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
yep a minister's dodgy meal out and a bad haircut can have far-reaching consequences
Feb 7th 2010 | 3:36 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
and for some they probably have good reason to be.... but the process had come in for some stick from all corners and really did seem a bit bizarre at times. According to one Minister today, there are currently 12,000 cooks in the system waiting to be processed !
Feb 7th 2010 | 5:17 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
Anybody seen the news about the major changes to the visa process. 20,000 are going to be kicked off the current waiting list and handed their money back.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Those hairdressing and cook courses, as routes to PR, seem to have finally got up the noses of enough ministers for them to put a stop to it.
Local paper running story on business couple who bought business now cant stay..
Personally I would give my visa away
but thats probably illegal. Dratt
Feb 7th 2010 | 5:25 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
About time too (although I'm sure it's going to upset a few people). I never understood why it was allowed to go on for as long as it did.
Feb 7th 2010 | 5:32 pm
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- especially the latter 
Feb 7th 2010 | 6:23 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
Cant understand why they are encouraging teachers to come though, it's nigh on impossible for teachers to get permanent jobs these days and a whole load of new graduates may never get one.
Feb 7th 2010 | 6:30 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
many people on temporary visas who plan to get pr are hoping and praying their jobs are on the new sol which comes out on April the 30th
If they aren't it could be devastating
If they aren't it could be devastating
Feb 7th 2010 | 7:15 pm
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Re: Visa Changes
The 20,000 having applications cancelled are pre-September 2007 applicants, nothing to do with cooks or hairdressers. There is nothing official about what specific occupations might be effected one way or another as far as I can see, just speculation.
I have only seen on BE that teachers are to be prioritised, but it is definitely not official. Also seen posts about cooks, hairdressers and accountants coming off the skills list but that is also not official yet. It does need to be addressed IMHO and I think it will be for cooks and hairdressers at least. The criteria for accountants is an absolute joke, it must be the easiest skills assessment out there, you don't even need to be an accountant.
A lot of panic on immigration forum, some of it justified and some of it because people haven't actually read the announcements,
I have only seen on BE that teachers are to be prioritised, but it is definitely not official. Also seen posts about cooks, hairdressers and accountants coming off the skills list but that is also not official yet. It does need to be addressed IMHO and I think it will be for cooks and hairdressers at least. The criteria for accountants is an absolute joke, it must be the easiest skills assessment out there, you don't even need to be an accountant.
A lot of panic on immigration forum, some of it justified and some of it because people haven't actually read the announcements,
Feb 7th 2010 | 7:35 pm
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That's bad news for alot of people who've had their lives on hold since before Sept 2007. 
