Last week the Australian Federal Government announced new visas for regional Australia which will be available from November 2019. It will also revise the definition of Regional Australia to include all of Australia except for the metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Perth. The new visas announced are: Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) [...]
Whilst New Zealands's prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said it "one of New Zealand's darkest days" and called the shootings a terrorist attacks, Australian senator blamed the shooting in immigration. At least 50 people were killed in Christchurch and another 20 were seriously injured. Fraser Anning, a senator in Queensland, has issued a statement describing the [...]
Let's be honest whether it's spiders or the dark , whatever your age we all have our fears. Fear is often what keeps us from living our dreams and achieving our success. Fear is also one factor that stops many from travelling the world. Fears of travelling can be anything from fear of not being able to [...]
A 59 year old Indian national man went over to Australia on 30th November 2000 on a visitor visa and his visa expired in 2001, however Mr Singh did not leave Australia when he was supposed to. Mr Singh recently appealed against a visa refusal in the Federal Circuit Court in Sydney. His last visa application [...]
The Australian Working Holiday Visa program will be undergoing significant changes made by the government. One of the key changes will allow workers to work for more than 6 months for the same agricultural employer. It will also include the opportunity to get a third year working holiday visa, under certain conditions. The current working holiday [...]
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Patrick O'Donovan has announced the age limit for Irish nationals applying for the working Holiday programme has increased to 35. The reciprocal agreement, which also allows Australians to come to work in Ireland, gives participants the ability to work abroad for up to two years. IMAGE: ALAMY The current age [...]
Australia's government has announced today that they have planned to extend working holiday visas to allow young travellers (backpackers) to stay for three years in order to meet a shortage of farm labourers. The young travellers who are on 'backpacker's visa' will be able to remain in Australia for up to three years providing they spend [...]
The Australian government has announced a new proposal in which new migrants may be forced to live outside Sydney and Melbourne. This policy has been created in order to ease congestion in Australia's two biggest cities while boosting the population in the regional areas, Population Minister Alan Tudge said on Tuesday. The proposal is part of “a [...]
Source: AAP Malcolm Turnbull, the government's minister has expressed concern that many people are granted permanent residency before they even step foot into the country so therefore wants to further tighten the visas. Last year Australia accepted around 162,000 permanent migrants last year which is well below they annual cap of [...]
If you're a foreign worker and you've worked in Australia in the last ten years on a working holiday visa you could be in for a tax refund. Tax refund specialists in Australia are calling up anyone who worked in Australia in the last the years to check their filing obligations [...]
