Australia is on track for a steep fall in net migration after federal officials turned away thousands of overseas students who applied to start courses this month, bringing student visa grants down by 20 per cent in the biggest shift in two decades.
This means the priority takes into account the track record of all overseas students at each institution so they are given a low ranking if they have had a large number of visa refusals, fraudulent applications or students who overstay their visas.All the Group of Eight universities are in the “tier one” category in this new system, while the “tier three” group at the lowest level of the system is mainly made up of private vocational education colleges.
The outcome shows the department is bringing international student visa grants down from 370,000 last financial year to 290,000 this year and believes there is a reasonable chance the outcome will be slightly lower. “Migration is too high and our government has taken action to bring it back to normal levels,” she said.
The skills program is not expected to see a big fall in visa approvals, given warnings from employers about a shortage of workers, and the government is not expressing concern about the number of backpackers and tourists who gain visas to do temporary jobs before they return home.
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