Due to the serious visa backlog, a document from the Immigration Bureau shows that the Australian Immigration Bureau is about to make major adjustments - Immigration Bureau is considering outsourcing some visa services.
However, the Immigration Bureau staff will continue to perform their main and core functions, such as decisions on visa applications.
The number of staffing personnel of the Immigration Bureau overseas and Australia will not be affected.
The Immigration Bureau hopes that the outsourcing service is biometric information for Australian visa applications, such as fingerprints and facial images. This requirement is needed for some countries and Chinese applicants do not.
At present, the number of new visas added each month is relatively large, which also exacerbates the difficulty of the Immigration Bureau in processing visas.
In February 2022, 137,144 visa applications were submitted in just one month, while in March it was 225,514 visa applications.
It can be seen that the current pressure on visa processing in Australia is really very high...
In addition, Recently, Australia updated the latest student visa data. Among them, it can be seen that the number of student visas is currently recovering, reaching 60% of the number of student visas applied for before the epidemic.
The current data shows that the student visa holders are about 430,000, of which 25% of the visa holders are still overseas, that is, about 100,000.
And among these student visa holders, China, India, Nepal and Vietnam account for the top four, and the sum of student visas in these four countries accounts for 50% of the total.
Among them, among Chinese students, 47% are still overseas, compared with 11% in India, 5% in Nepal, and 25% in Vietnam.
You can see that most of the student visa holders are distributed in southeast Australia.
followed by northeastern Australia.
In addition, it is understood that the new building of Moda University Arts and Cultural Building will be completed soon. The building has a series of learning spaces, and the student area project of this building was co-created with students, and more than 20,000 students and employees contributed their ideas.
Let us look forward to the opening of this new building~
