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Australia and the UK have their own particular immigration crises. In Australia, overstaying a student visa is the most common way of becoming an illegal immigr
by cjs_ac 1y ago
Australia and the UK have their own particular immigration crises. In Australia, overstaying a student visa is the most common way of becoming an illegal immigrant, and so the increased fee is part of a larger suite of reforms designed to reduce this. In the UK, the government wishes to reduce the number of skilled worker visas to deal with a pay compression issue: the average salary for a new graduate in the UK is the same as the minimum wage.
This visa integrity fee seems to be a much blunter instrument.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y ago> In Australia, overstaying a student visa is the most common way of becoming an illegal immigrant, This may be due to the difficulties with border crossings.
- testing22321 1y ago> This may be due to the difficulties with border crossings. It’s no harder getting out than it was getting in.
- cjs_ac 1y agoThere is, however, a long history of immigration to Australia that is illegal under Australian law; see the 'Timeline' section of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia
- citrin_ru 1y ago> the government wishes to reduce the number of skilled worker visas to deal with a pay compression issue At least in IT/tech I would expect an opposite effect - with number of skilled immigrants reduced there will be risk that multinational companies will close development offices in the UK, startups will have one more reasons to choose another country too. With number of available jobs going down workforce reduction will not prop salaries up IMHO.