457 Visa. This may be well known?
May 14th 2008, 2:49 am
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457 Visa. This may be well known?
THE Rudd Government, in its first budget, has announced initiatives to tackle the skills shortage in Australia that include upping the intake of skilled migrants into Australia and reforming the plagued 457 visa scheme.
The Government announced 31,000 skilled migrants will be added to the 2008-09 Migration Program. The increase follows on from a one-off allocation of 6000 extra skilled migration places announced in February.
Overall, permanent skilled migration makes up 133,500 places in the program which now totals 190,300.
“This record increase in the number of places in the permanent skilled migration program, since the introduction of managed migration in 1947, will help ease Australia’s skills shortage and help fight inflation,” Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans said.
In addition, the family stream will be increased by 6500 places to 56,500, and includes a boost of 4000 places to the parent visas.
The increase in the program from 2008-09 is estimated to cost an additional $1.4 billion over four years for settlement services and ongoing core government services such as health, education and employment services.
The additional cost to the budget will be offset by revenues from income tax, excise duty, GST and charges paid by the new migrants estimated at around $2.9 billion over four years.
Meantime, the Government has committed $19.6 million to improve processing and compliance of the temporary skilled migration program which includes the uncapped 457 visa scheme.
“This is the first stage of a series of reforms aimed at restoring integrity and public confidence in the 457 program,” Evans said.
The use of 457 visas to employ temporary skilled migrant workers has grown rapidly in recent years.
A total of 39,500 subclass 457 visas were granted in 2003-04 compared to 49,700 in just the first half of 2007-08.
A working party led by Evans and the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard as well as the Treasurer and Minister for Trade will develop a longer-term reform package to be considered as part of the 2009-10 budget.
Source: http://www.petroleumnews.net/StoryVi...StoryID=197293
The Government announced 31,000 skilled migrants will be added to the 2008-09 Migration Program. The increase follows on from a one-off allocation of 6000 extra skilled migration places announced in February.
Overall, permanent skilled migration makes up 133,500 places in the program which now totals 190,300.
“This record increase in the number of places in the permanent skilled migration program, since the introduction of managed migration in 1947, will help ease Australia’s skills shortage and help fight inflation,” Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans said.
In addition, the family stream will be increased by 6500 places to 56,500, and includes a boost of 4000 places to the parent visas.
The increase in the program from 2008-09 is estimated to cost an additional $1.4 billion over four years for settlement services and ongoing core government services such as health, education and employment services.
The additional cost to the budget will be offset by revenues from income tax, excise duty, GST and charges paid by the new migrants estimated at around $2.9 billion over four years.
Meantime, the Government has committed $19.6 million to improve processing and compliance of the temporary skilled migration program which includes the uncapped 457 visa scheme.
“This is the first stage of a series of reforms aimed at restoring integrity and public confidence in the 457 program,” Evans said.
The use of 457 visas to employ temporary skilled migrant workers has grown rapidly in recent years.
A total of 39,500 subclass 457 visas were granted in 2003-04 compared to 49,700 in just the first half of 2007-08.
A working party led by Evans and the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard as well as the Treasurer and Minister for Trade will develop a longer-term reform package to be considered as part of the 2009-10 budget.
Source: http://www.petroleumnews.net/StoryVi...StoryID=197293
May 14th 2008, 2:59 am
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They should tackle the issue of taking ages to process a visa!
May 14th 2008, 3:52 am
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THE Rudd Government, in its first budget, has announced initiatives to tackle the skills shortage in Australia that include upping the intake of skilled migrants into Australia and reforming the plagued 457 visa scheme.
The Government announced 31,000 skilled migrants will be added to the 2008-09 Migration Program. The increase follows on from a one-off allocation of 6000 extra skilled migration places announced in February.
Overall, permanent skilled migration makes up 133,500 places in the program which now totals 190,300.
“This record increase in the number of places in the permanent skilled migration program, since the introduction of managed migration in 1947, will help ease Australia’s skills shortage and help fight inflation,” Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans said.
In addition, the family stream will be increased by 6500 places to 56,500, and includes a boost of 4000 places to the parent visas.
The increase in the program from 2008-09 is estimated to cost an additional $1.4 billion over four years for settlement services and ongoing core government services such as health, education and employment services.
The additional cost to the budget will be offset by revenues from income tax, excise duty, GST and charges paid by the new migrants estimated at around $2.9 billion over four years.
Meantime, the Government has committed $19.6 million to improve processing and compliance of the temporary skilled migration program which includes the uncapped 457 visa scheme.
“This is the first stage of a series of reforms aimed at restoring integrity and public confidence in the 457 program,” Evans said.
The use of 457 visas to employ temporary skilled migrant workers has grown rapidly in recent years.
A total of 39,500 subclass 457 visas were granted in 2003-04 compared to 49,700 in just the first half of 2007-08.
A working party led by Evans and the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard as well as the Treasurer and Minister for Trade will develop a longer-term reform package to be considered as part of the 2009-10 budget.
Source: http://www.petroleumnews.net/StoryVi...StoryID=197293
The Government announced 31,000 skilled migrants will be added to the 2008-09 Migration Program. The increase follows on from a one-off allocation of 6000 extra skilled migration places announced in February.
Overall, permanent skilled migration makes up 133,500 places in the program which now totals 190,300.
“This record increase in the number of places in the permanent skilled migration program, since the introduction of managed migration in 1947, will help ease Australia’s skills shortage and help fight inflation,” Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans said.
In addition, the family stream will be increased by 6500 places to 56,500, and includes a boost of 4000 places to the parent visas.
The increase in the program from 2008-09 is estimated to cost an additional $1.4 billion over four years for settlement services and ongoing core government services such as health, education and employment services.
The additional cost to the budget will be offset by revenues from income tax, excise duty, GST and charges paid by the new migrants estimated at around $2.9 billion over four years.
Meantime, the Government has committed $19.6 million to improve processing and compliance of the temporary skilled migration program which includes the uncapped 457 visa scheme.
“This is the first stage of a series of reforms aimed at restoring integrity and public confidence in the 457 program,” Evans said.
The use of 457 visas to employ temporary skilled migrant workers has grown rapidly in recent years.
A total of 39,500 subclass 457 visas were granted in 2003-04 compared to 49,700 in just the first half of 2007-08.
A working party led by Evans and the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard as well as the Treasurer and Minister for Trade will develop a longer-term reform package to be considered as part of the 2009-10 budget.
Source: http://www.petroleumnews.net/StoryVi...StoryID=197293
First they have to emplye more people to process the applications they have to know the trauma people go through during the processing of application.They have teach their MARA approved migration agents as well which do wrong commitments to people abt the processing time and other things becoz they r representive of Austrlia in migration process to earn money these MARA approved people do so many wrong thing and applicant can do anything against them becoz of time and also they think might be agent do something wrong in their case.
Only increasing the number of Visa will not solve the problem. They have to think abt applicants as well they have to make some arrangments to have a direct contact with applicant in the starting of the process not only at the time of IC and job verification.
People from high risk country have to wait so long they fed up in a meanwhile. My application is received by DIAC in May 2007 and i am still waiting nothing heard from CO only through PLE i came to know that i have CO thats it.
May 14th 2008, 2:00 pm
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At present, Australia is one of the quickest Western countries to migrate to. Try applying to the US. Better yet, try Canada as a skilled migrant. You'll be waiting at least 4 years, more likely 5 before your visa application is processed. The average wait of 6-8 months is nothing for Australia.
May 14th 2008, 9:24 pm
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First they have to emplye more people to process the applications they have to know the trauma people go through during the processing of application.They have teach their MARA approved migration agents as well which do wrong commitments to people abt the processing time and other things becoz they r representive of Austrlia in migration process to earn money these MARA approved people do so many wrong thing and applicant can do anything against them becoz of time and also they think might be agent do something wrong in their case.
Only increasing the number of Visa will not solve the problem. They have to think abt applicants as well they have to make some arrangments to have a direct contact with applicant in the starting of the process not only at the time of IC and job verification.
People from high risk country have to wait so long they fed up in a meanwhile. My application is received by DIAC in May 2007 and i am still waiting nothing heard from CO only through PLE i came to know that i have CO thats it.
May 14th 2008, 10:09 pm
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It would appear that the Government recognise that there is a problem:
"Meantime, the Government has committed $19.6 million to improve processing and compliance of the temporary skilled migration program which includes the uncapped 457 visa scheme".
May 14th 2008, 10:17 pm
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sorry this is gonna sound dumb but what do they mean by compliance and whats the uncapped 457 please
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May 15th 2008, 5:57 am
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uncapped 457 means there is no limit to the number of 457 visas that can be granted - unlike other visas (like the family visas) where there can only be a certain number granted per year.
Not sure about compliance.
Not sure about compliance.
