Australia: Now we can fly to Australia, Permanent Migration Visas limit raised to 1.95 lakhs

editor September 03, 2022 0

Melbourne: Australia to increase number of long-term immigration visas this year. Although 35,000 visas have been allotted now, it has been decided to make 1,95,000 visas within this 12 months. The selection comes against a backdrop of acute labor shortages for many industries.

Australia closed its borders for about two years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but those strict rules and an exodus of holiday workers and foreign students left businesses struggling to find staff and keep their businesses afloat.

"COVID is presenting us, on a platter, with a chance to reform our immigration system that we will never get back again. I want us to take that chance," Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil told a government jobs summit on Friday.

"Based on forecasts, thousands of nurses will settle in the country this year, and thousands of engineers."

Australia's unemployment rate is currently 3.4%, which is close to a 50-year low, but rising inflation means real wages are declining.

Businesses have been pressuring the government to increase the annual immigration ceiling from 160,000, which has prompted it to adopt temporary modifications to satisfy the labour shortage.

The two-day summit was organised in Canberra, the nation's capital, by the freshly elected center-left Labor government, who invited business associations and labour unions to assist in finding solutions to pressing economic problems.

As many nations want to relax immigration laws, Australia has been competing with other established economies to get more talented workers from outside.

However, the staff shortage situation has gotten worse as a result of a blowout in visa processing delays in Australia, which has left about a million potential employees in limbo.

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles told the meeting, "We recognise that when individuals wait and wait, the uncertainty may become overwhelming. "This is not good enough, and reflects a visa system that has been in crisis."

Mr. Giles announced that the government will spend A$36.1 million ($25 million) to hire 500 more staff members over the course of the next nine months in an effort to speed up the visa application process.

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