Delay In Visa Processing

❏ A million potential employees are currently stranded in Australia due to an explosion in visa processing timeframes, which has made the severe personnel shortages that are crippling businesses and dampening economic sentiment worse.

❏ According to immigration data viewed by Reuters, there were over 914,000 applications pending for temporary and permanent visa to Australia as of August 12. This has made it difficult to implement an apparently straightforward solution to the issue of allowing more migrants to enter the country.

❏ About 370,000 of these are temporary visas in the vital categories of visitors, students, and skilled workers that are essential for the nation's economic recovery.Additionally, it includes people who are currently inAustralia and want to switch to a more permanent visa status.

❏ The lack of resources at immigration offices and the massive backlog of applications that went neglected for two years while the pandemic compelled the government to lock the borders are the main causes of the delays.

❏ In order to reduce the enormous backlog, the department has hired more than 180 extra employees in jobs related to Australian skilled work visa processing since May. It has been able to process approximately 1.14 million applications from persons outside of Australia in the past two months.

❏ In order to reduce the enormous backlog, the department has hired more than 180 extra employees in jobs related to visa processing since May. It has been able to process approximately 1.14 million applications from persons outside of Australia in the past two months.

❏ But given that more than 600,000 people on temporary visas have left the country since the pandemic, much more has to be done to close the significant skills gaps in the construction, hotel, and health sectors.

Australia normally depends on immigration for approximately two thirds of its population growth, and skilled immigrants are a significant supply of talent. The difficulties faced by industry sectors that depend on temporary and permanent migrants to fill skills gaps were made worse by COVID-related restrictions of national and state borders.

A report just released by CEDA calls for more permanent skilled migration. In order to demonstrate that recent migration waves have not resulted in lower earnings or fewer job opportunities for Australian-born employees, this report and a 2019 CEDA report are available.

federal government to

❏ Build up an online job matching service that is governed by the government

❏ Update the Standard Classification of Occupations Codes in Australia and New Zealand to allow immigrants with necessary or cutting-edge capabilities

❏ Be more open about how it determines which jobs should be considered for inclusion on the skilled occupation listings.

The Global Talent Scheme (GTS) is characterised as "extremely restricted" by CEDA. Following COVID, Minister Hawke recognised, Australia's immigration policies must be more adaptable and responsive. He cited the higher GTS intake of 15,000 slots in 2020–21, which is a triple of the allocation from the previous year. The migration program's structure and composition, however, are still unknown.