According to the newly released Australia's 2022-2023 financial report, the two core points of Australia's immigration policy in the next fiscal year are to expand skilled immigration and encourage immigration from remote areas.
Australian students, as one of the main groups of skilled immigrants, have obvious immigration advantages. They not only have extra points to study in Australia, work experience and PY after work visa, etc., but if you choose to study in remote areas, you can get extra points in remote areas and preferential guarantee policies for local graduates in your state.
This article, Xinghan Immigration editor, will lead you to comprehensively analyze what are the advantages of applying for colleges and universities in remote areas in Australia?
Here we need to emphasize: remote areas in Australia are calculated based on the local birth rate, not based on urban infrastructure or economic development, so remote areas in Australia are actually not completely "remote".
Australian remote area division instructions
Category 1: Non-remote areas, including Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane . Therefore, except for these three major cities, all Australia belong to remote areas;
Category 2: Other remote areas are not other cities and regions in the above categories. Therefore, this place is a truly remote area;
This shows that in remote areas, many cities are included in remote areas simply because of their slow population growth, and their geographical location is not remote, and their living and educational levels are also maintained at a high level.
Australia’s remote areas include both the capital Canberra , the capital city with developed political and economic development, etc., as well as the top tourist destinations, the Gold Coast, the "Australia Silicon Valley" Wollongong and other special cities.
Because Australia's remote areas are wider, the policies are different in each region. Generally speaking, in order to fill the gaps in technical personnel in remote areas, solve the local population growth problem or promote the local economic development, state governments will give local immigration policies very preferentially. Most Australian visas have terms regarding remote areas.
Australia 485 graduate work visa, 188/888 investment immigration visa, 190 state guaranteed visa and other types of visas are biased towards applicants in remote areas in immigration policies. Therefore, the most involved are the state guaranteed skilled immigration 491 visa and employer guaranteed 494 visa in remote areas.
If the international student has plans to immigrate after graduation, then choose to study in a remote university and have many advantages in immigrating after completing his studies as required.
Immigration advantages of colleges and universities in remote areas
Because Australian skilled immigration adopts a scoring system, only EOI scores at least 65 or above meet the basic requirements for application. After studying in remote areas in Australia, they will get a very large bonus advantage.
For students studying in colleges in Category 2 (other remote areas), after meeting the requirements for studying in Australia:
- will receive 5 points and additional points for applying for a 189 visa;
- can apply for a 190-state guaranteed skilled immigration visa, which can increase by five points;
- can Enough to apply for a 491 remote state guarantee visa and get 15 points extra points;
- remote area visa application can be processed first;
- remote area occupation list relatively covers more occupations;
- graduates with bachelor's degree or above who have completed their studies in remote area colleges Please apply for a PSW work visa and you will be eligible for an additional one year of renewal;
. For students studying in colleges in Category 3 (other remote areas), in addition to the advantages mentioned above, there are also:
- Graduates who have completed their studies in colleges in other remote areas who have applied for a PSW work visa and you will be eligible for an additional two years of renewal;
- priority to negotiate DAMA projects in specific regions;
Some students are worried that if they do not get a permanent residence in one step of 190, they will not be able to enjoy the benefits of Australia. Australian immigration lawyers said that although the holders of 491 visas and 494 visas are temporary residence visas, they can also enjoy the same Medicare benefits as Australian PR.
According to the Australian New Fiscal Year Budget, it is a general trend to promote immigration in remote areas. The preferential policies for immigration will not be removed in the short term, and more preferential policies will even be introduced in the future.
Australia guarantees a wider career, lower requirements, and preferential immigration policies for local graduates. For students with post-graduate immigration plans, planning to study in remote areas is the first choice.
