Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, conceded that a steady growth in immigration would benefit the country.

Even though she is keen to stress that she has no intention of supporting the disastrous ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ‘big Australia’ idea, she will not go down to the route of opposition and try to curb immigration too much, either.

Earlier this month, many big Australian businesses were warning if the country did not develop a flexible and easy to navigate Australian immigration plan, the country would face serious skills shortages. Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout, said that the economical growth will be dampened by the skills shortages and it could have serious consequences for the future of Australian business.

In fact, immigration has been a credit, in part, to the avoidance of a recession by Australia, and it produces demand as well – for housing and various other commodities, that benefit the economy. In addition, skill shortages in industries such as mining, that is vital for trade relations with China, are also filled by temporary and permanent migrants.

Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) will be replaced by The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) as the standard for information about occupations in all Australia visa, settlement and citizenship programs by DIAC.

2. New SOL for GSM

The new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) for the General Skilled Migration (GSM) program will also take effect from 1 July 2010. This new SOL is based on ANZSCO which identifies occupations that reflect the high value, nation building skills Australia needs. For viewing the new SOL, please click here.

3. Migration Occupation in Demand List (MODL)
The occupations on the MODL are unchanged, but now refer to ANZSCO rather than ASCO. The list is also an ASCO-ANZSCO correlation table for those occupations. However, MODL can no longer be claimed for Australia visa application lodged on or after 8th of February 2010.

Source: MIA

During the Population Australia 2050 summit in Sydney, he pointed out that they were moving from Australia needs skills’ to the skills Australia needs’ approach. He aslo added that they had been looking at the integrity and intentions of people coming to live in Australia and that had led to significant changes in the system.

In support, he said that the new Prime Minister, Julia Gilliard, has shifted away from a ‘big Australia’ toward ‘balaned’ sustainable population growth underlining the importance of skilled migration.

On the weekend, Ms Gilliard said that she didn’t want to see business held back because they couldn’t access the skilled workers they needed, however, she didn’t want to see areas of Australia suffering high youth unemployment because there were no jobs for local workers either.

By 2050, it is forcasted that the Australia’s population will reach 35.9 million, from a current 22 million and immigration will be a big contributor.

In its 2010/11 budget, the government said the size of the migration program would be maintained in the new financial year at 168,700 places.

But the mix would change with increases to skilled migration and reductions to family migration.

Source: BigPond News

Currently, the Migration Act 1958 provides the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship the power to cap and terminate all application for certain class or subclass of visa. With the new Bill, the Minister may cap and terminate applications based on certain objectives characteristics, rather than having to cap an entire subclass or class of visas.

As an example, the Minister could limit the number of General Skilled Migration visas that may be granted in a financial year to applicants who have nominated particular occupations, to ensure the General Skilled Migration program is able to deliver the broad range of skills the Australian economy will need in the medium to long-term.

At present, no actual cap is being considered and the Bill is not currently operative, it is to give the Minister the power to implement a cap in future if necessary.

In addition, the Bill also proposes that if a student visa holder lodges an application for a General Skilled Migraion visa and their General Skilled Migration visa application is subsequently subject to a decision to cap and terminate, this will not effect any student visa that is still in effect.

• upgrading the interview program to confirm the genuineness of a Student visa applicant and to check the applicant
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