A SPECIALIST integrity unit has been formed inside the Department of Immigration to deal with widespread fraud in the working holiday visa program, on which industries such as fruit growing depend. More than 200 internet advertisements have been found offering to buy or sell documents allowing backpackers to claim they had worked in rural jobs [...]
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Blitz on working holiday visa scam
Posted in ALL news, Immigration News, tagged 400., abused, advertisements, Applications, Australian Business, backpackers, cancelled, claim, convicted of fraud, department, Department of Immigration, documents, European visitors, extend, false documentation, falsely claim, farm, farms., Federal, fee, fraud, fraudulent claims, fruit growing, Gumtree website, holiday visa, hostel, immigration, Indians, industries, international students, internet, job, jobs, linked, lodged online, mainly, opposition, posted, reflected, rural, rural jobs, scams, selling, Sharman Stone, SPECIALIST integrity unit, spokeswoman, Sydney, targeting, this fraud, under-resourcing, visa, visas, widespread, worked, working holiday visa program, working holiday visas on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Australian skills shortage “a risk to recovery”
Posted in Immigration News, tagged $21 billion, 1500, 457 visas, address, Australia, Australian, Australian federal government, Australian Financial Review, Australian visa policies, business visa rules, CEO, commissioned, construction stage., development, DIAC, energy, expansion, GDP, generate, Gindalbie, global financial crisis, Gorgon gas development, immigrants, immigration, including, infrastructure giant, iron ore mine, IT, IT industry, looming, massive, massive projects, Microsoft Australia, Mid-West iron ore, migration, mining, National Broadband Network, overhaul, Pluto LNG plant, potential growth, recession, recovery, region, Richard Leupen, risk, shortage, shortage of workers, skilled, skilled immigration program, skilled labour., skills shortage, stifled, United Group, upwards, urging, visa processing, western australia, Workers on October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Industry leaders in Australia are urging the Australian federal government to overhaul its skilled immigration program to address a looming shortage of workers. Recent changes by DIAC to the skilled migration visa processing times have meant that many hundreds of applicants for visas have been told that they may have to wait up to 3 [...]
Minister announces new immigration advisory council
Posted in Immigration News, tagged advice, announced, associated, asylum, Australia, chris evans, community, Community Status Resolution Service., Council, detention., establishment, government’s immigration, IDAG, immigration, Immigration Detention Advisory Group., Immigration Services, implementation, including, independent, measures, migration outcomes, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, national rollout, New Directions, New Directions in Detention policy.’, no risk, policy, policy initiatives, resolve, resolving the immigration status, seeking, Senator Chris Evans, Senator Evans, Status Resolution., strategies on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced the establishment of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution. The council will provide independent advice on the implementation of measures associated with the government’s immigration policy initiatives including New Directions in Detention and the national rollout of the Community Status Resolution Service. [...]
Immigration plan brings Australia’s needs to the fore
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 50 year migration plan, 50-year vision, Andrew Metcalfe, approach, asylum, asylum seekers, Australia's, Australian, … A long-term, brings, Canberra, Christmas Island, climate change, conducting, conference, consider, contribute, demographic, department, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Economic, environmental goals., fore, framework, global, global environment, globe, high level of education, immigration, Immigration plan, intakes, island, kevin rudd, language proficiency, long-term, long-term economic, long-term issues, mainland, migration, Migration Occupations in Demand List, MODL, nation's, national security, new policy, New Zealand School of Government, objectives, officials, other skills, plan, planning, policy, range, rounded, rudd, seekers, skilled migrants, skilled migration program., to Australia's, visionary, water, water needs, well-planned on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IMMIGRATION officials are preparing a 50-year migration plan to ensure that intakes consider a range of long-term issues such as climate change, water needs and national security. The Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Andrew Metcalfe, said yesterday the department was conducting a review of the nation’s migration needs to ensure a more [...]
Marriage scamming for permanent residency
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 26000, 40000, a year, ACT, applicants, Aussies, boom, brazen in India, brides and grooms, Canada, cancellation of the visa, China, contracted to marry, cracking down, documentation, evidence, fake marriages, false, fiancés, foreign spouses, forged document, fraud, grant a visa, illegal immigrants., immigration, Immigration officials, impossible., including, India, internet surfers, investigated., jumped, kicked out, last year, levels, love, marriage, Marriage Scams, marry, migration agents, paper marriage, Paper marriage for Australia, paperwork, permanent residency, phoney, posts, process, record, removal from the country, requires, residency in Australia, running, scamming, scams, shores, single, spousal, spousal visa applications, spouses, to Australia., true, uk, ultimately, under visa fraud, visa, visa applications, visa fraud on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Immigration to our shores is running at record levels and so too is the boom in illegal immigrants. Some are scamming permanent residency is to catch and marry single Aussies. Immigration officials are cracking down on fake marriages, but sometimes impossible to know when love is true or false. Over the last ten years spousal visa applications [...]
Probe into immigration exam cheating
Posted in Immigration News, tagged $12000, $18000, (IELTS) exam, activity, allegations, Australia's, cheat, cheating, cheating on exams, claims, commonplace, conducts, Corruption, defended, Department of Immigration, detected, engage, English Language Testings System, exam, exams, fraud, fraudulent, high stakes, identity, IDP, IDP Australia, IELTS, immigration, Immigration Department, internal problem, international, investigating., investigation, involved, launch., newspaper, occur., outsourcingf English tests, probe, reports, sold, source, spokeswoman, staff, student service, Students, Sydney, tests, The Sun-Herald on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Allegations of cheating by students in immigration exams has seen the launch of a corruption investigation. Australia’s largest international student service, IDP Australia, is investigating possible corruption among its staff after students in Sydney were caught cheating on exams it conducts for the Department of Immigration, The Sun-Herald newspaper reports. Copies of the May International [...]
Jobs for Backpackers Website
Posted in Jobs and careers, tagged accommodation, area, Aussie, Australia, Australian, Australian Immigration, backpackers, bona fide, bussiness, checks, comprehensive, country pub, employee, employers, encourage, excellent, experience, experiences, farm, good, good understanding, great jobs, home, immigration, job, location, offerings, operation, part time, pay good rates, pay., perth, Perth metropolitan area, position, provide, quality, range, rates, regional, reputation, resort work, satisfactory, seasonal, seasonal farm, service, skills, stand, station work, today, travellers, true blue, true blue Aussie, vast, visa, visa checks, WA, way of life, western, western australia, widely, word, working on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starting from a part time operation and growing to what we are today, we have an excellent reputation and are known widely for our service and quality. From all kinds of seasonal farm and station work to country pub and resort work, we have a vast range of great jobs to choose from both in [...]
New citizenship test
Posted in Immigration News, Living in Perth, tagged 2009., 45 minute test, across Australia., adequate, assist, assistance, August 2009, Australia, available, basic, becoming, book, Centrelink, Centrelink offices, changes, citizens., citizenship, citizenship test., computer, confidential., department, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, department officer, department offices, DIAC, English, help, immigration, knowledge of Australia, level, level of English, mandatory questions, Medicare, Medicare offices, new, new Australians, New citizenship test, officer, offices, operate, pass, pass mark, passed a test., perth, plain English, Pledge of Commitment, possess, practice, privileges of citizenship, question, questions, reading, released, request, resource, resource book, responsibilities, revised, revised resource book, rewritten, standard, test, test booking., test questions, WA, website, written on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are a number of changes being made to the citizenship test. The key changes are: the test questions will be rewritten in plain English the test will not contain any mandatory questions the current pass mark will increase from 60 per cent to 75 per cent the test will be based on the Pledge [...]
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