Skilled migrants who worked in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic will now be allowed to stay permanently.
Skilled migrants who worked in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic but were cut off from applying for permanent residency due to a "sneaky" visa change will now be allowed to stay., a French winemaker who was devastated after finding out she was no longer eligible to become a permanent resident despite living and working in regional Australia for three years.
Without access to a pathway to permanent residency, Bridget was contemplating leaving Australia this year when her visa expired. Her other options would be to apply for another temporary visa and hope that in three years the rules wouldn't change again, or to apply for a different visa while overseas.
It means that other migrants like Bridget who had been on the medium-term stream will now be able to apply for permanent residency as long as they were in Australia for at least one year between 1 February 2020 and 14 December 2021. She also questions why it took so long for the government to make the change, given it announced the changes to the short term stream on 1 July, more than seven months ago.
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