Posts Tagged ‘Work Visas’

Australia experiencing serious skills shortage – More immigration needed

November 12th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

Australia is expected to face a serious shortage of professionals and tradespeople within the next 15 years; According to an analysis of retirement patterns in by the Australian Bureau of Statistics many Australians will be reaching retirement age over this period. This means Australia will need to recruit more and more overseas skilled workers to address the looming workforce shortage. In particular Australia needs health, engineering, and education professionals.

Additionally, Western Australia is currently experiencing its largest skills shortage of mining tradespeople since 2008. Western Australia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry stated that more than 450,000 additional miners would be needed by the state in the next 10 years.

With fast-emerging economies like India needing its metals and minerals, mining shortages in Australia are expected to affect many other countries.

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Australian Visitor Visa and other visas may become easier to obtain

April 23rd, 2011 Tushar Mathur

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen and Nick Sherry Minister for Small Business have announced a discussion paper asking for views on the simplification of Australian visitor visas.

The Government is trying to reduce the different types of visas and visa subclasses by fifty percent by 2015. Mr Bowen went on to say:

“The government’s proposal to simplify visitor visas follows on from our recent commitment to streamline temporary work visas.”

“We are undertaking broad public consultation on the visa simplification process, to ensure we consider the impact of any changes on the community,” he added.

The proposals are that all short-stay (non-business visitor) work activities be moved out of the visitor program and into the new unsponsored short-stay visa.

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Western Australia sees sharp increase in skilled migrants

March 12th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

Businesses in Western Australia (WA) have recorded a sharp increase in the number of Dutch, Malaysian and Irish workers being sponsored to fill skilled job vacancies.

Close to 4000 skilled migrants were granted temporary 457 visas in WA in the second half of last year, an increase of more than 44 percent over the same period in 2009.

There was a substantial increase in clerical and administrative occupations in demand from 40 to 110 positions during the last half of 2010, according to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).

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Western Australia sees sharp increase in skilled migrants

March 12th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

Businesses in Western Australia (WA) have recorded a sharp increase in the number of Dutch, Malaysian and Irish workers being sponsored to fill skilled job vacancies.

Close to 4000 skilled migrants were granted temporary 457 visas in WA in the second half of last year, an increase of more than 44 percent over the same period in 2009.

There was a substantial increase in clerical and administrative occupations in demand from 40 to 110 positions during the last half of 2010, according to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).

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H1B Work Visas for Indians

December 16th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

It can be said that the most popular visa among Indians is H1B which is a working visa for foreigners. Most of the Indians H1B visa holders are software engineers. Although it is a quite hard to get the H1B visa, once you obtain it, it is like the starting point for you to get the Green Card of US.

Compared to Indians programmers and software engineers who come with other visas such as L1 and B1, their visas is not so flexible for changing jobs, which is the best fact of H1 visa.

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