Australian Immigration offers more Working Visas
18/05/2008 by Liam Clifford
Australia has labour shortages - it needs more hard working skilled workers this year than at anytime since the 1940’s. Just like other economies it is going into meltdown and people are looking for a life raft but the government may have just come to the rescue.
www.globalvisas.com, a company specialising in immigration across the globe, has never seen such a high level of enquiry from British Citizens looking to leave the UK. Last year Global Visas made headlines in the UK due to the high levels of people enquiring about leaving. This year has broken all records since the start of trading in 1994.
It is also noted that www.globalvisas.co.in is now seeing a change in peoples migration requirements. People are now more interested in Australia and the US than the UK. It seems the UK may be next to face a real shortage of skills.
However, Australia’s economy cannot continue to grow without many more skilled migrants, Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans warned this week.
Even though Australia is a young country they nevertheless have an aging population. Industries that require skills can not do a good service by simply training the youth.
Just like the UK and many western countries they aim to invest heavily in training and education by uplifting the skills of locals, but this is not enough.
Fortunately due to the obvious attractions of Australia many people from the UK and other commonwealth countries wish to emigrate there. The government is therefore simply going to allow more people to go and work in Australia.
The number of new immigrants will include 190,300 permanent employment migrants, 56,500 with family in Australia already and approx 50,000 on temporary skilled visas – coming to over 300,000 new skilled workers in total.
Senator Evans said that for the first time in the past year the workforce grew more from imported labor than from Australians taking new jobs.
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