| The number has been increasing ever since, with it | | | | they may be able to move from their Australian |
| being anticipated that another three hundred thousand | | | | student visa to a more permanent kind of visa through |
| immigrants will join us here by the end of 2009. | | | | this avenue - Australia has learned to capitalize on |
| Australia has always been a popular destination for | | | | Immigration in Australia by offering what is known as a |
| migrants - it is sunny, the people are nice and | | | | skilled migration visa. |
| opportunity abounds, making the proliferation of | | | | This visa is specifically designed to offer individuals |
| Immigration in Australia no real surprise. Immigration in | | | | who are skilled in certain occupations the opportunity |
| Australia has always played a large part in the | | | | to ply their trade in Australia as permanent citizens for |
| country's history, and from the current pattern, it is a | | | | a certain amount of time - if Australia does not have |
| safe statement to make when saying that it always | | | | enough hairdressers, it is likely that a qualified |
| will. | | | | hairdresser applying for a skilled migration visa would |
| It is very easy to come to Australia as a tourist, either | | | | have their application granted. |
| on a very temporary tourist visa (3 months), or on a | | | | Once a migrant on a skilled migration visa has lived in |
| slightly-less-temporary-but-still-undeniably-temporary | | | | Australia for a certain period of time, they may be able |
| working holiday visa (12 months with an option to | | | | to apply for permanent residency - which means they |
| extend for a further 12), and it is also possible to come | | | | would become an Australian citizen with all of the |
| to Australia as a student, with the Australian student | | | | associated rights and social benefits. |
| visa also being classed as a temporary visa. But how | | | | New Wave Or Constant Tide? |
| does one actually migrate on a more permanent | | | | As mentioned previously, the number of immigrants to |
| basis? | | | | Australia has been increasing on a regular basis for the |
| Moving From Temporary To Permanent | | | | last two decades. The amount of immigrants from |
| Many people first come to Australia on an Australian | | | | countries such as the UK and New Zealand has been |
| student visa. On the terms of their Australian student | | | | increasing, as has the number of immigrants from |
| visa, they are not classed as permanent residents, and | | | | previously less developed countries, such as those in |
| they are restricted in terms of employment and social | | | | what was formerly known as Eastern Europe. As the |
| benefits. It stands to reason that once they have | | | | economy in these countries developed, it became |
| completed their education, they may not be too | | | | more possible, for more of the inhabitants to |
| comfortable with the idea of leaving Australia. | | | | contemplate a move to Australia. |
| The period of life in which one works on a university | | | | There is a new wave in that every year more and |
| education is a very formative one and it is | | | | more people come to Australia to work and live, but |
| understandable that they may not want to leave their | | | | this is more of a ripple when one considers the tide of |
| friends and lifestyle behind. | | | | humanity which has been arriving on Australian shores |
| If they have been studying in a certain trade or | | | | for the last twenty years. |
| industry in which there is a deficit of skilled individuals, | | | | |