Beginning July 1, 2023, Indian students enrolled in tertiary education programmes in Australia may apply for employment there unsponsored for up to eight years. It is a consequence of a bilateral deal that India and Australia struck in May of this year.
Simply stated, every beneficiary of student visa Australia will continue to be confined to 48 hours of paid employment biweekly or per fortnight. This has been undertaken the guarantee that Indian students can retain their academic concentration while possessing the ability to provide skills that are valuable for themselves. However, people who work in the aged care industry are exempt from this restriction.
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There will be up to 3,000 job roles available under the Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early Professionals Scheme (MATES). Using MATES, Indian graduates and early career professionals can live and work in Australia for up to two years with knowledge and skills in targeted fields of study.
This visa is open to Indian professionals working in seven different industries, including information and communication technology, financial technology, mining, artificial intelligence, and engineering.
Australia offered modifications to its immigration policy in April 2023 to accelerate the influx of highly competent people and simplify the process of obtaining status as permanent residents. The administration promised to streamline and simplify the high-skilled professional visa application process whilst also taking initiatives to keep overseas students in the country.
By the end of 2023, provisional or temporary skilled holders of visas who had been refused any prospect to seek an Australia PR visa would be permitted to do so, says O'Neil. However, she added that it would not affect the nation’s annual influx of permanent migrants.
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To assist organisations dealing with severe shortages of employees, Australia boosted its annual intake of indefinite or permanent migrants by 35,000, to 195,000 for the fiscal year in September 2022. The Australian government also vowed to increase staffing and resources to expedite the visa application process.
Up until December 31, 2023, the holders of student visa Australia who were already employed in the aged care industry as of May 9, 2023, are permitted to work as many hours as they choose. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Australia loosened all job prohibitions on student visas, and in January 2022, they were entirely withdrawn. To solve a labour shortage, it permitted those with primary and secondary student visas to work more than the typical 40 hours per fortnight.
Source: The Economic Times
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