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Old 02-11-2010, 10:56 AM
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Australia to expel 20,000: Mass exodus of Indians Rupee News
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Mass exodus of Indians from "White Britain in Pacific" MELBOURNE: In an overhaul of the immigration policy, Australia will cancel 20,000 visa applications from foreign nationals, including Indians, who have been staying in the country under the existing skilled migration programme.

Australia to expel 20,000: Mass exodus of Indians
Posted on February 8, 2010 by Moin Ansari

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Mass exodus of Indians from “White Britain in Pacific”. Most of the so called “students” are actully economic refugees who get “enrolled” in hair-cutting and fashion design type of courses. Australia now has plugged the loophole. If the Indians want to complain then they can complain and protest at home. Already the UK has tightened visa restrictions on Indians and others. The Indians had a good deal in Australia, and all this nonsensical protesting has destroyed their access to a good education and a good opportunities to help their paychecks.

It takes one Indian to get a job. Pretty soon there are a hundred.

MELBOURNE: In an overhaul of the immigration policy, Australia will cancel 20,000 visa applications from foreign nationals, including Indians, who have been staying in the country under the existing skilled migration programme.

The changes which will be unveiled on Monday will see 20,000 current applications binned as a result of an overhaul of the list that identifies occupations in demand and awards points on the basis of professional qualifications of the applicants.

State governments will be asked to develop new migration plans and a new list will be prepared to define occupations in demand in the country. The government will also set a maximum number of visas for a single occupation.

The new system will favour skilled workers such as nurses, medical practitioners, engineers and teachers instead of groups such as cooks and hairdressers.

The cancelled applications apply to all offshore general skilled migration claims lodged before September 2007. Refunding 20,000 visa applications will cost taxpayers about $14 million, The Age reported.

The government, however, will make transitional arrangements for such applicants until 2012.

Foreign students who have a qualification for an occupation no longer considered in demand will get to apply for a temporary 18-month visa, allowing them to gain work experience.

If foreign graduates fail to find an employer willing to sponsor their applications, they will have to return to their country of origin.

According to immigration minister Chris Evans, the existing program “has been delivering self-nominated migrants from a narrow range of occupations with poor to moderate English language skills who struggle to find employment in their nominated occupation”.

Evans also acknowledged the unscrupulous migration agents in the country.

“These (agents) have been misleading many international students into believing that a course in Australia will give them an automatic entitlement to permanent residence,” Evans was quoted as saying. “It does not, and it will not”.

The minister, however, said that “The government supports skilled migration and continues to want migrants, “Be they from India, the United Kingdom or China – our three largest source countries or elsewhere”.

“We want skilled migrants on terms that work both for Australia and for the migrants themselves. We need a program with integrity and direction,” Evans said. Australia to cancel 20,000 visa applications
IANS, 8 February 2010, 09:49am ISTText Size:|Topics:students

NEW DELHI: Australian authorities have been promising action to curb the continuing attacks on international students and communities. But Indian students aren’t waiting. Several are packing their bags and heading home for good. That’s despite incurring a loss ranging from Rs 12-20 lakh per student.

“There are no statistics available. But several Indian students are either leaving or have left and are not coming back. The primary reasons are lack of safe living conditions and absence of job security,” says Gautam Gupta, secretary, Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA). Over 150,000 Indian students are studying in Australia today.

Gupta talks of a couple who came to Australia in June 2009 to study and left within three months in October 2009 after the husband got beaten up at Carnegie station, Melbourne. “They said, “We didn’t come here to be beaten up. What wrong have we done to be treated like this?” says Gupta.

Sejal Shah (name changed on request), 26, is another such student. She was confident of a secure future when she went to Melbourne early 2008. She hadn’t dreamt that 18 months later in November 2009 —- six months short of completing her course —- she’d be returning without a degree in hand.

“Even if I got an Australian qualification, I wasn’t sure of a getting a job anymore,” says the student of business and finance from Melbourne’s La Trobe University. The tension was palpable, only five out of the current batch of 150 students had landed jobs. She chucked the residency dream: as per Australian law, a degree would have ensured her residency. But insecurity and sense of threat to Indians further pushed her to return, says the Gujarat resident. Parental concern saw to it that Ambala’s Avinash Minocha returned within a year of his two-year accounting course. He came to India on vacation in December but parents told him to stay put at home. (Some names have been changed on request)

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Old 02-11-2010, 12:34 PM
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Sounds great. All this right on the heels of some foment regarding accusations of racist attacks against Indians in Australia. Maybe they could see this coming and were trying to stir enough momentum to register this change as being racist.
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