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News.com.au Press Release - Nationalvisas.com.au |
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03 APR |
Migration Agents Review Underway |
| A discussion paper on how to further improve standards in the migration advice sector was released today by the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Hon Teresa Gambaro MP. |
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08 JAN |
Research Shows Migrants Still Contributing To Strong Economic Growth |
| New research by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) shows that migrants accelerate their employment outcomes in the year following their first six months in Australia. |
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08 DEC |
Calls for one million extra people in the Australian workforce |
| The skills shortage in Australia's economy is being labelled the "success disease" and the Business Council of Australia has called on the new government to bring at least one million extra people into the workforce to lift productivity. |
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01 DEC |
Australian Citizenship Test Goes Into Effect |
| The new Australian citizenship test for permanent residents wishing to become Australian citizens commenced on 01 October 2007. Unlike the United Kingdom, migrants applying for permanent residence under schemes such as General Skilled Migration and the family streams are not required to take the test. |
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25 NOV |
More Kiwis Than Brits Move To OZ |
| The number of New Zealanders crossing the Tasman increased by nearly 5000 in the past year, outstripping the United Kingdom as the largest source of permanent migrants to Australia. |
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14 NOV |
Option To Work In Australia After Studying |
| STUDENTS keen to gain solid work experience after graduation can now look to doing so Down Under. Under new regulations introduced recently, students in Australia who have met certain criteria can work for up to two years in the country. |
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28 OCT |
South Africans Moving To Australia |
| The number of South Africans emigrating to Australia last year rose by 10% but still fell short by 35% from the highs established in 2002 and 2003. Last year 4,293 South Africans successfully applied for permanent residence in Australia, compared to 3 895 the previous year. |
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23 OCT |
South Africans Sought To Fill Skills Gap |
| SOUTH Africans are to be recruited to fill council jobs in Western Australia as statewide skills shortages sparked by the booming mining sector threaten to decimate local government services. |
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17 OCT |
Visa Holders Vie For Graduate Jobs |
| FINDING a job in highly competitive fields such as fashion design, sports administration and dance teaching is set to become harder for domestic graduates following moves by the Federal Government to make it much easier for overseas students to remain in Australia after they graduate. |
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04 OCT |
Aussies Find Love In Global Market |
| TENS of thousands of Aussies are finding love overseas each year and bringing their partners home, new figures show. |
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26 SEP |
16,000 Indians Seek To Make Australia Home |
| As many as 15,865 Indians sought permanent residence in Australia under the skilled migration programme in 2006-2007, making them the second largest group in the category after Britons. The figure seems to belie fears that freed terror suspect Muhammad Haneef's case would deter prospective Indians from making Australia their home. |
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18 SEP |
New Visa To Help Strengthen Australia And USA Ties |
| Under the proposed visa deal, young Australians would be able to spend their gap year working in the US and their American counterparts could do the same in Australia before returning home for university, Fairfax newspapers report. |
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12 SEP |
Australia Keen To Ensure Visitors Get Their Super Money |
| Under Australian law employers are required to contribute to an employee's retirement by paying money into a superannuation account when that employee is paid more than $A450 a calendar month |
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05 SEP |
Call For Targeted Visa Scheme |
| Leighton Holdings CEO, Wal King, has called for a more targeted engineering migration program to be implemented in Australia. |
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26 JUL |
Fewer European Migrants In Australia |
| AUSTRALIA'S international make-up is changing, with fewer Europeans calling Australia home and more Asians and Africans settling Down Under. |
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20 JUL |
Foreign-trained Doctor Numbers Up In Rural Areas |
| Shortage of health professionals in Queensland is so bad. The number of health and community workers entering Queensland on 457s or skilled workers' visas, was 550 higher than for the same period last year. |
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11 JUN |
Australia Needs More Resource Workers |
| AUSTRALIAN needs to double efforts to attract workers to fuel the growing needs of the WA resources sector, the state's Chamber of Minerals and Energy says. |
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