The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford have released a report (they call it a primer) about the way the Points Based System, here and abroad, assess immigrants. It looks at the criteria used to attract “the brightest and the best” and analyses whether this is an effective way of attracting the best immigrants. Their findings show that there is often a disparity between the qualifications of immigrants and the jobs they do. And they highlight some of the difficulties countries have in assessing migrants – most notably with qualifications and previous earnings.
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It isn’t just in the UK where officials are arresting illegal immigrants found as workers. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has detected fifty people in Australia during the last week who are in breach of visa rules; forty four of them are currently being detained.
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More Post-Study Work Visas are going to be available to international students after their Australia student visa runs out in Australia. Starting in 2013 the Post-Study Work Visas will be available to graduates of Bachelors degrees and higher. The government ministers responsible for the change said this was being done to “enable education providers to offer a more competitive package to international students.”
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A piece in the Financial Times has shown that the removal of Tier 1 Post-Study Work visa in April 2012 is already having an effect on admissions of overseas students to MBA courses.
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Australia’s Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, announced yesterday that in January 2012 there will be new fees for visa applications. All visa applications will have increased fees apart from student visas, which will be cheaper. The fees will come into effect on 1st January 2012.
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Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, gets knocked out, but she gets back up again. Her government suffered a serious blow when the Australian High Court blocked the asylum seeker deal with Malaysia that was at the forefront of her immigration policy. If you are wondering at what point she got back up again, it was today when she announced that she had spoken to her Labor Party caucus to revise the Migration Act so it could be accepted by the High Court.
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