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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All the headlines in Immigration and Employment, the Best of our Blog, and our favourite stories from the fringes.

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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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