Having plans for immigration to Australia? It is a fact that immigrating to a new country cannot be exciting at all times but rather, it sometimes could be overwhelming and filled with challenges. The excitement of change can sometimes be overshadowed with the confusion and frustration that is often associated with any Australian visa application process. Aside from the frustrations, it takes a lot of time, patience, focus, and understanding in dealing with all the latest Australia migration policies and reforms that could affect your Australian visa application.

If you want to forego all the hassles and stress that are often associated with any Australian visa application, then engage the services of Australia’s top leading provider of Australian visas and Australian immigration advice, the National Visas.

National Visas has a deep understanding of all the hassles, challenges, and time that comes with any visa application process. It understands that these challenges could sometimes overwhelm visa applicants, making their Australian visa application process uneventful and traumatic. Thus, National Visas provides you with a wide range of affordable services for many visa categories and subclasses.

Ranging from the free online visa assessment that is designed to instantly determine if you are eligible to apply for an Australian visa, to the personalized review of your visa documentations, preparation and lodgment of your visa application on your behalf, or even with the provision of personalized visa guide that contains all the details that could help you self-mange your visa application, and until the successful approval of your visa application, National Visas team of experienced MARA-registered immigration experts could provide you with these affordable and personalized services.

Rather than facing with the daunting challenges that comes with any visa application, National Visas aims to make your Australian visa application simpler and hassle-free. Thus, it gives you the freedom to focus on the excitement that comes with immigrating to another country.

National Visas has been well-known to deliver global immigration services that are specifically tailored to suit your visa needs and budget. They are also renowned to provide fast, friendly, expert immigration advice and assistance as well as comprehensive Australian visa and immigration services for people travelling or migrating to Australia.

Over the past several years, National Visas have provided visa and immigration assistance to hundreds of thousands of clients with their visa applications and even in the last year alone, thousands of people have made their immigration goals a reality with the help of National Visas.

By using National Visas, clients are assured that all of National Visas’ visa and immigration services are intended to provide you with personalized advice and information in order to help you avoid unnecessary expenses until you are confident that your Visa application has the best possible chance of success. You, as client, are guaranteed to receive the very best Australia visa advice and support for your Australian visa application and have the services of Australia’s most experienced Australian visa and Australian immigration experts at your disposal.

You can even avail of National Visas Free 3-day access to asking unlimited questions to National Visas’ team of registered migration agents just by tweeting about National Visas.

So what are you waiting for? Engage National Visas’ affordable and personalized visa services so you can focus yourself fully on the excitement of immigrating Down Under!

Got questions about Australian visas? How about Australian immigration inquiries?

If you have questions on how immigration to Australia works or about the Australian visa application process, try National Visas FREE 3 Day Immigration and Visa Consultation.

National Visas, Australia’s top world class leading provider of Australian visa and Australian immigration advice, is offering a FREE 3 Day Immigration and Visa Consultation service.

So how does this work?

Just tweet about National Visas. By tweeting about them, you will be given a FREE upgrade to a FREE 3 day subscription to National Visas Online Message Centre. This will allow you to communicate with National Visas team of Australia’s most experienced Australian visa and Australian immigration experts and ask any unlimited questions you may have about getting Australian visas, Australia migration, and any other related Australian immigration and visa topics for 3 days at no cost to you.

However, you need to have a National Visas account. If there is none, one has to register an account on National Visas registered client area so that you can login and be able to have access on National Visas Online Message Centre where you can post your questions about Australian immigration and visa and other related topics and be able to read the corresponding replies from National Visas migration agents.

Yes, National Visas has made Australian visa and Australian immigration much easier and much simpler and easier to understand with their FREE 3 Day Immigration and Visa Consultation.

Experience National Visas FREE 3 Day Immigration and Visa Consultation and ask unlimited questions about getting an Australian visa and how the immigration process works and its corresponding policies and updates and other related topics from their expert migration agents. Rest assured that all your questions will be answered and you will be satisfied with the corresponding answers as well.

National Visas team of registered migration agents are truly experts in the field of immigration. Some even have firsthand experience in processing an Australian visa application.

By availing of National Visas services in processing your Australian visas, you are guaranteed to receive the very best Australia visa advice and support for your Australian visa application and have the services of Australia’s most experienced Australian visa and Australian immigration experts at your disposal. Moreover, National Visas has a wide range of services that are affordable and personalized to suit your visa situation.

From the initial contact to review of visa documentations, preparation and lodgment of your Australian visa and up to the successful granting of your visa and even if you want until you are settled well in Australia National Visas will provide you with the necessary advice and support.

There’s nothing like National Visas personalized services in making your Australian visa application process much easier and with less hassle.

And with National Visas FREE 3 Day Immigration and Visa Consultation, your Australian immigration and visa inquiries will all be answered at no costs to you and you will also be given the opportunity to assess and evaluate how good an expert National Visas migration agents are as well.

Processing for visa Australian for Refugee to be expedited!

Just recently, an announcement was made by the Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship regarding its effort on speeding up the Australian visa form processing arrangements ahead of the move to community detention.Under the Australian Government’s new approach to immigration detention through a better cooperation between the immigration and security agencies, the security assessments and Australia visa form processing for prospective holders of a refugee visa to Australia will be accelerated.
With Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, one of the two components of Australia’s Immigration Program, the Australian government will provide protection for asylum seekers who meet the United Nations definition of a refugee, as defined in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (Refugees Convention).
These refugees (who are already in Australia) and others in refugee–like situations (outside Australia) will be offered protection and resettlement by the Australian Government.
For refugees who are in Australia and wish to apply for protection or asylum, under the onshore component of the Refugee and Humanitarian program, they can apply visa to Australia under only one available visa subclass, the Protection Visa (Class XA) (Subclass 866). While under the offshore component of the Refugee and Humanitarian Program, there are two categories of people who can apply: the Refugee category for people subject to persecution in their home country and the Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) category for people who, while not being refugees, are subject to substantial discrimination amounting to a gross violation of their human rights in their home country.
Under the Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, in order to be granted visas Australian, these refugees must first pass the Australian visa requirements like character and security checks, required health examinations and sign the Australian Values Statement.
According to Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, between the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australia’s national security service, they have significantly sped up the processing of the vast majority of refugee claims and their security claims.
For the last 12 months, 3,900 visas were already granted to people who’ve arrived by boat as compared to the 2,600 that have arrived. For the first time, DIAC have been releasing more people from detention as compared to the number of people who are going into detention.
This combined effort of speeding up humanitarian Australia visa processing times comes as Australia makes community detention a more central part of the immigration system.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Julian Gillard was forced to dump a controversial refugee-swap deal with Malaysia for lack of support. Consequently, the Australian Government had announced that since the Malaysia refugee swap deal was rejected by the Federal Parliament, asylum applicants on Australian soil will now be housed in the community on bridging visas, allowing them to work and live un-detained while their refugee claims are assessed and heard by the appropriate (Australian) authorities.
The Malaysia refugee swap deal was a plan where the Australian government will be able to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia for “processing” and accept 4,000 already “processed” refugees from Malaysia. This swap deal is said to deter would-be asylum seekers from the dangerous journey — usually by leaky, overcrowded boat, provided by Indonesian “snake-heads,” or people smugglers — to Australia.
However, Mr. Bowen also made it clear that there will also be some cases where security and other concerns will lead to much longer processing times.

Just recently, the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that it has expanded its Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS).
Last 8th of September, 2011, Prime Minister Gillard announced that Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu have been invited to join Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu as participants in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme.

So what is the Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS)?

Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS)

In August 2008, in the lead-up to the 2008 Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting in Niue, the Australian government had lunched what was called the Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme for the Pacific islands or better known as Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS).
PSWPS is designed for Australian employers to get a guaranteed labor force during peak harvest time, while workers have the chance to earn high wages to send home remittances to family and community.
Under the scheme, up to 2,500 visas — not a Australian work holiday visa nor any of the Australian holiday visas — were first made available for unskilled workers from Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Kiribati and Vanuatu to work for up to seven months in any 12-month period with horticultural enterprises or farms in Australia who cannot find enough local labor to meet their seasonal harvest needs.
This means that Pacific seasonal workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga or Vanuatu are recruited to work in Australia’s horticulture industry for up to six months, picking fruit in orchards and vineyards.
In order to be considered eligible to participate in the scheme, workers of participating countries must comply with the scheme’s Australian visa requirements such as:
be aged between 21 and 45 at the time of visa application
Be of good character – where applicants will undergo a police record check
be healthy and fit for the work specified
be citizens of the participating country and in the participating country at the time of visa application
have a genuine intention to enter Australia for seasonal work and return to the participating country after their employment ceases
have not participated in the New Zealand Recognized Seasonal Employer (NZ RSE) scheme

Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme Expanded

Now, PSWPS participants have been expanded and now include the Pacific countries of Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
Aimed to provide Australian producers more avenue to source workers, where seasonal demands outstrip the local supply of labor as well as offer an important economic boost to more communities in Australia’s Pacific neighborhoods, workers from Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu have been invited to join those from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu to participate in the pilot scheme.
Under this pilot scheme, Australian farmers are now allowed to employ workers from certain Pacific Island countries, under special visa conditions different from the conditions set in the work holiday Australia visa.
So far with over 560 workers recruited, the pilot scheme is said to have been delivering benefits to both Australia’s horticulture industry and participating Pacific countries, as these pacific seasonal workers remit money back home, benefiting their families and broader communities and in Australia, the pilot scheme is said to be delivering productivity gains for the horticulture industry, predominantly in regional areas where access to a reliable labor supply has been a longstanding challenge.
As Australia’s horticulture industry recovers from the severe drought and floods as well as following the introduction of more flexible arrangements by the Australian Government in December 2010, the demand for Pacific seasonal workers by the horticulture industry is increasing.

In recent times, Australian migration has never been much easier and much more enticing.

Australia: as an Inducement

In today’s shaky global economy, Australia’s recovering economy, with its recent resource boom driving the hiring of overseas skilled workers, have made the country a job haven for overseas skilled workers seeking work.

With billions of dollars of projects being started and some still in the pipeline propelling the country’s skills shortage as well as the Australian Federal and State government making reforms to its Migration program, both general and state or regional, migration to Australia in recent times have never been much easier timely and lucrative, particularly to overseas skilled workers.

In addition, Australia’s effort in relation to tourism, that is to attract more tourists to holiday in Australia via its reforms on its Australian visa polices, like its visitor’s visa Australia, have made the country one of the preferred tourist’s destination of the world. Also, Australia’s integration of cutting edge technology in delivering its new entry system for visitors has made the country boast as one of the world’s most electronically sophisticated immigration entry system for visitors and has made entering Australia much easier.

Australia’s breathtakingly panoramic and adventure-laden scenic spots and widely diverse environment have attracted many tourists far and wide who want adventure, excitement, fun and relaxation.

Hassle-free Migration

Under Australia’s Migration Program, people applying for immigration to Australia, either temporarily or permanently, are not discriminated on the basis of race or religion. This means that anyone from any country can apply to migrate, regardless of their ethnic origin, gender or color, provided that they meet the criteria set out in law.

All applications for migration to Australia are assessed against requirements set out in the Migration Act and Regulations, which have different criteria for different categories of Australian visas and which are established to meet Australia’s national interests and needs.

Though the Australian government made reforms to make it easier to migrate to Australia, these reforms have also made the migration process more confusing and stressful, especially to those who are not familiar with the Australian migration policies and its visa Australia requirements and to those who do not have the time to be familiar with these latest reforms.

To make your migration to Australia much easier and with lesser complications, why not engage the services of one of Australia’s leading providers of Australian visa and Australian immigration advice, National Visas.

With National Visas’ wide range cost effective affordable and personalized services — ranging from supervisory to hands-on and consultation — that suit any visa-related situation and catered by Australia’s most experienced Australian visa and Australian immigration experts, your Australian visa application and migration could never be much easier and hassle and complication-free as possible.

Moreover, National Visas’ latest Australian migration and visa promo, the “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo, will provide you the opportunity to learn how easy it is to migrate to Australia.

Paybytweet Promo: 3 Day FREE UNLIMITED Q and A

National Visas’ “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is a 3 day FREE unlimited question and answer service promo where all inquiries about Australia migration and visa policies can be asked from National Visas Australia’s most experienced Australian visa and Australian immigration experts.

So if you have visa and migration to Australia related inquiries and could not seem to find answers in National Visas site, you can have the chance to ask them from National Visas experienced Registered Migration Agents by just availing of its latest 3 Day FREE UNLIMITED Q and A promo.

This latest promo is free to avail for 3 days and is open to individuals who have questions with regards to any Australian migration and visa related problems. Just have a National Visas registered account and you will automatically have the opportunity to ask 1 question from National Visas’ Registered Migration Agents.

However, if you have more visa related questions, as a registered member, you have the chance to avail of National Visas’ free upgrade to their FREE FULL 3 day subscription of their “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo to the Online Message Centre. All you need is to tweet about National Visas which will then allow you to communicate with National Visas experienced registered migration agents and pose any inquiries that you may have about migrating to Australia and its visa requirements and migration policies.

So what are you waiting for? Avail of National Visas latest promo and ask your questions now from their Registered Migration Agents for FREEE!

Tourism Australia’s ‘30 Days in Oz’ tourism advocacy campaign goes viral on Facebook!

Travel Visa Australia

Tourism Australia, the Australian Government’s agency responsible for the international and domestic marketing of Australia as a destination for leisure and business travel, which has quite recently launched its newest tourism advocacy campaign to attract more of the British pre- university grads students to have a holiday in the country, has tapped Facebook as one of its internet marketing tool to promote its newest advocacy campaign.
Tagged as ‘30 Days in Oz’, Tourism Australia’s newest online tourism campaign launched last 1st day of August is a series of 30 one-minute online videos with each video that features trailing someone in different places all across Australia. Each video shows a personality demonstrating in 60 seconds the reasons why there is nowhere else like Australia to visit for young travelers.
As part of Tourism Australia’s move to be at the forefront of digital marketing to promote Australia as a tourist destination, the statutory authority of the Government of Australia responsible for tourism marketing within Australia and internationally is going to launch on the day the A-level results; a competition on its official Facebook Fan Page. The competition will give young Brits the opportunity to win their own gap year adventure in Australia.
With over a million of fans who are sharing their love of Australia with the world through Facebook, and with more than 36,000 of these fans from the United Kingdom (UK), Tourism Australia has since recognized word-of-mouth as an extremely powerful advertising tool in promoting Australia as a holiday destination to the world that is why social networking platforms and the online environment have become an integral part of Tourism Australia’s marketing efforts.
The Facebook competition is aimed to encourage British gap year students to travel to Australia on a working holiday Australia visa.
This working tourist visa Australia will allow these British gap year students to travel across the country while having the option to supplement their holiday costs with short term or part time employment. This means that British gap year students will be able to supplement their travels with casual or part time work and earn some cash as they travel across Australia and have an adventurous extended holiday.
According to Tourism Australia’s Rodney Harrex, General Manager for the UK & Northern Europe, with their Facebook campaign the government agency is trying to persuade young people in the UK and other popular backpacking markets around the world, particularly those leaving school or on a Gap Year, to catch up with other backpackers as they share their stories, and then to use the information on their Facebook page to start planning their own gap year adventure in Australia.
As thousands of young people are left disappointed at not securing a university place this year, through Tourism Australia’s innovative use of its Facebook Fan Page in showing its ‘30 Days in Oz’ series, they will be able to discover the adventures that can be had in Australia and while undergoing the adventure, they will also have a chance to work in Australia with the temporary holiday working visa for Australia.
Tourism Australia noted that there were 2.8 million visitor arrivals to Australia during the six months to June 2011, with 298,800 visitors coming from the United Kingdom alone and 25,300 of these visitors are from the UK who has visited the country in June 2011.

Any questions about Australian immigration and Australia visa?

If you have, why don’t you avail of national Visas’ recently launched visa Australia and Australian immigration promo, the “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo.

National Visas, the top leading immigration Australia advices and Australia visa services provider, has recently launched its latest Australian visa and immigration promo. This promo is a 3 day unlimited question and answer service program.

Inquiries regarding migration to Australia and Australia visa can be asked from National Visas’ experienced Registered Migration Agents for free. The latest promo could be availed for 3 days!

National Visas has developed into a world leader in online Australian immigration services, with thousands of people having used National Visas to receive their Australia visa in the last year alone. They are well known to deliver a fast, friendly, expert Australian immigration advice and assistance for people who are seeking an Australian visa and immigration advices with their provision of a range of affordable personalized services that are prepared and catered by their experienced Registered Migration Agents.

What is “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo?

National Visas newly launched “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is a 3 day unlimited question and answer service program where National Visas’ registered clients are given a chance to ask questions with regards to their Australian immigration and visa inquiries for free for 3 days.

In order to avail of the promo, all participants must be a registered client of National Visas. If you are not, you can register an account at National Visas registered client area.

As a registered client, you are automatically entitled to ask 1 free question regarding Australian immigration and visa info queries to their experience registered migration agents.

However, if you want to avail of their “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo, you can be upgraded freely to their free upgrade to a free 3 day subscription to the Online Message Centre by just posting a tweet about National Visas. This upgrade will then allow you to consult with their experienced registered migration agents and can ask any questions that they may have about Immigration to Australia or getting an Australia visa.

How does free 3 days promo work?

To get your free 3 day access, click this Free Immigration and Visa Advice

• Click the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ button

• On the new window, login to your twitter account

• Post the tweet

• After posting a tweet, you will be directed to a download page where you will be required to login to the National Visas registered client area

• After login in, National Visas’ will automatically activate your 3 day free access. Just look for the “email us” link and you can start using your free subscription straight away.

“Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is so easy to join. So avail now of this promo and ask your Australian immigration and visa questions to your heart’s content and surely National Visas’ expert registered migration agents can satisfy all your Australian immigration and visa queries.

Do you have any questions regarding Australia visa application? How about Australian immigration policies?

Well, if ever you have any questions about the immigration Australia policies and visa Australia information and application process, why not ask them from National Visas registered migrant agents at no cost to you!

Yes, National Visas, the world leader in Australian immigration advices and visa services provider has recently launched its latest Australian visa and immigration promo, “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo.

National Visas is the top leading Australian immigration advice and visa services provider for many years, with thousands of people having used National Visas to receive their Australia visa in the last year alone. They endeavor to deliver a fast, friendly, professional immigration advice and assistance for people seeking an Australian visa with their wide range of affordable services that are prepared and catered by their experienced and highly competent Registered Migration Agents.

Ask UNLIMITED questions for FREE for 3 days

National Visas’ “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is a 3 day unlimited question and answer service program promo where people can ask all Australian migration and visa inquiries and answers are provided at no cost to them.

This promo is open to all who want to ask any migration to Australia and Australia visa questions. Questions are answered by National Visas’ experienced Registered Migration Agents for free. This promo can be availed free for 3 days!

All you need is, if you already have a National Visas account, to login to the National Visas registered client area or, if you don’t, register an account at their website for free.

Upon completion of registration, as a registered National Visas client, you are already entitled to ask 1 free question with regards to your Australian immigration and visa info questions to National Visas experience registered migration agents.

However, if you, as a registered client also want to avail of National Visas “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo, as their registered client, you are offered a free upgrade to the free 3 day subscription promo to the Online Message Centre. Once upgraded, you are allowed now to consult with their experience registered migration agents and can ask any questions with regards to your Australia visa application and migration to Australia inquiries.

How to avail of the “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo?

In order to be upgraded to the free 3 day subscriptions just click this Free Immigration and Visa Advice just for Tweeting and follow this instruction:

On their website:

• Click the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ button and a new window will open

• Login to your twitter account

• Post the tweet

• Once you complete tweeting, you will be directed to a download page where you will be required to either

1. login to the National Visas registered client area (if you already have an account) or
2. register an account (this is needed so that you can login and ask your questions and read your replies from their migration agents.

• Once login or registered, National Visas’ will automatically activate your 3 day free access. Just look for the “email us” link and you can start using your free subscription straight away.

So what are you waiting for, avail of National Visas “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo and surely all your Australian visa and migration to Australia inquiries will be answered!

The ever-increasing popularity of social media site’s like Twitter and Facebook in today’s era of the world wide web as well as the growing value that people ascribe to the underlying power of social media sites have greatly impacted how businesses of today do their marketing campaign.

As people are now becoming aware of the importance of recommendations and suggestions of families, friends and acquaintances with major search engines starting to use “social signals” like Twitter links and Facebook likes and share in determining a site’s relevance and authority which is then used as factors in their ranking algorithm, businesses nowadays have now wisely utilized these social media sites in their marketing promotion campaign.
With these understanding, National Visas has finally launched its “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo.
National Visas’ “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is a 3 day unlimited question and answer service program where registered clients can ask all their visas Australian questions.
So how does this work?
To be able to understand National Visas’ latest promo, let us first try understanding what “Pay with a tweet” really is.

What is “Pay with a tweet”?

‘Pay with a Tweet’ is the first social payment system that can be used by e businesses as a tool to create buzz or interest for themselves, their brand, product or service.

Who can use ‘Pay with a Tweet’?

All content creators and marketers who want their product, service, brand or just themselves to be sold for a tweet in order to promote and get noticed by creating a buzz or interests in social media site.

How does ‘Pay with a Tweet’ works?

People who want to sell for a tweet their product, service, brand or just themselves will have to submit an application for where they can generate the code of the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ download button. Then they will have to copy the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ button or URL and paste it where ever they want people to download their product and pay for it with a tweet.
Then people who wants to used by or tell all their friends about a product, service or brand will just have to click the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ button or URL.
After someone clicks the ‘Pay with a Tweet’ button or URL, they will be given the option to pay by either sending out a tweet or posting on their Facebook wall.
Then after paying they have to allow ‘Pay with a Tweet’ access to their chosen Facebook or twitter account and then confirmed. After confirming, the tweet gets tweeted or the post gets posted on their Facebook wall then finally they can get to download the file for free.

What is National Visas’ latest promo?

National Visas’ “Pay with a tweet for Free Immigration and Visa Advice for 3 days” promo is where all registered clients of National Visas are already entitled to ask 1 free question regarding travel visa Australia to their registered migration agents.
However, if these registered clients also tweet about National Visas, they will be offered a free upgrade to a free 3 day subscription to the Online Message Centre which will allow them to consult with their visa Australian registered migration agents and ask any questions that they may have about Immigration to Australia or getting a visa from Australia.

So what are you waiting for, register now to National Visas so you can avail of their latest promo and can asked all your Australia migration visa questions?

As the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) made a series of reforms on its immigration policies, making some of its Australia migration visa rules tougher, the number of application for Australian visa has been observed to have dropped for the past few months.

Just last month, news regarding the tough new immigration rules for foreign students hitting Australia’s economy has been circulating in the internet. The news said that more than 125,000 fewer international students are expected to come in the next 12 months that would cost more than 31,000 jobs nationwide.

The report also said that a confidential Immigration Department figures has revealed that with the new visa Australian applications, it has suggested that Victoria, the state that is most reliant on foreign students, will be hit the hardest, with 40,250 fewer student visa Australia applicants in the next year.
The figures show that a drop of 47 percent in the number of visa applications from India alone was being observed in the nine months to the end of March.
Prior to the changes were announced, international education was reported to be a $17 billion industry nationally and had brought Victoria and annual income of $4 billion.
The Cause
According to an education expert, fewer overseas students, including from India, will be able to obtain skilled migrant visas which is said to be blamed on the basis of their Australia qualifications which is said to be under tough new migration rules.
Last February, Immigration Minister Chris Evans had announced changes on its migration rules which made it tougher for students to obtain a study visa, as well as attacked overseas student’s ability to gain permanent residency after graduation.
Likewise, just last May, the Immigration minister has again announced a new alternative English language tests for Student visas. Now, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the Pearson Test of English Academic (Pearson) and the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) from Cambridge ESOL (Cambridge) have become acceptable tests for Student visa application purposes.
According to Monash university researcher, Bob Birrell, this new change will greatly favor overseas applicants from English-speaking countries who can easily meet the much tougher English language requirements of the new points test.
Moreover, the band score of 7 in IELTS examination, with regards to English, has now been made compulsory. This further made English language requirement more difficult.
Likewise, a number of popular courses, such as hairdressing and cookery have been removed from the Skilled Occupations List, which determines which occupations are eligible for independent or unsponsored skilled migration.
Furthermore, the newly implemented skilled migration points test last July 1 is said to have weakened the policy link between education and migration.
The Result
The Australian government has made it more difficult for overseas students to acquire student visas. With these tougher new immigration policies, it has increased the level of uncertainty for student visa applicants.
Potential students have lost faith in the Australian market. The lost in faith has greatly impacted the entire international education market. A slowdown from China was being observed, with India dropping significantly, as well as drops from other key markets, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Korea.
Potential students are now applying to Canada, Britain or the United States instead.
With these drop in the overseas student visa application, a call for student visa flexibility has been ringing for quite some time.