Australia Student Visa: Explained: How Australia's New Student Visa Rule Change Affects Indians ndtv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ndtv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To avoid Australian visa rejection, student visa applicants must provide accurate information, demonstrate clear intentions to study, meet financial requirements, achieve required English scores, and seek professional assistance for a successful outcome.
Australian government lowered the upper age limit to curb instances of ‘visa hopping’, wherein tourists used to visit Australia on a visitor visa and enrol themselves in a diploma or a bachelor’s degree program and later apply for an on-shore study visa.
Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two years as the government looks to overhaul what it said was a "broken" migration system.
Countries like Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and South Korea, which are actively trying to woo international students, too, are likely to benefit to some extent, though language is a deterrent in some cases, nearly half-a-dozen study abroad consultants, education experts, and students said.
The Australian government has announced that it will stop issuing Pandemic Event visas from February 2024. This will impact international students and temporary workers who are looking for alternative options to stay in the country. The visa, introduced during the peak of the pandemic, allowed students to stay in Australia for an additional 12 months if their visas expired.
Several Australian universities have temporarily banned applications from certain Indian states over visa fraud issues. Federation University and Western Sydney University have instructed education agents to stop recruiting students hailing from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.
The student visa work rules were relaxed in Australia throughout the pandemic and were completely removed in January 2022, allowing primary and secondary student visa holders to work more than their normal limit of 40 hours per fortnight to address workforce shortages.
Official numbers, accessed by the Free Press Journal from the Western Australian government show 40,035 international students enrolled in universities across WA between January-September 2022, with Indian students comprising 7,900 of the total enrollments.