A new government brought several changes to Australia's immigration pathways this year. Here's what happened and what's to come in 2023.
are now being assessed in just three days after the government stopped using the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List to rank applications.
The government has hired extra staff to help with visa processing, bringing Australia's visa backlog, which was once at almost one million applications, down to 600,000. "The question I have is will the government maintain the migration program at the current level if Treasury's forecasts are to be believed?" Mr Rizvi said.
"We need a system that attracts and retains talent, a system that is simple, efficient and complementary to the skills existing in Australia," he said.
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