澳将削减技术移民配额

Slowing economy forces immigration cut
http://business.smh.com.au/busin ... -20090223-8fge.html

今天 February 23, 2009 - 1:51PM

Australia will cut its annual immigration intake for the first time in eight years due to the slowing economy and weakening demand for labour, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said today.

Australia is a nation of immigrants and has been enjoying a boom in new arrivals for the past decade to help meet labour shortages as a China-fuelled mining boom drove unemployment rates to 30-year lows.

But six of Australia's major trading partners are now in recession, economic growth has stalled, and unemployment has started to rise with the government expecting unemployment to hit 7% by mid-2010 from 4.8% currently. 明年中失业率可能从现在的4.8%上升到7%

"I expect the numbers of our programme to drop next year ... as a reaction to the economic circumstances," Evans told reporters.

"It is fair to say that we expect the demand in the economy for labour to reduce. As it is a program very much linked to the demand for labour, we expect to run a smaller program."

Australia has been accepting immigrants in record numbers in recent years and set a target for 190,300 immigrants this year, up 20% on the 2007-08 financial year and higher than the post world war II record of 185,099 in 1969-70.

About one in four of Australia's 21 million people were born overseas, and Australia has been actively trying to attract skilled workers, with immigration fairs targetting university graduates and people with trades in Europe, Britain and India.

At the same time, Australia has begun a trial program to bring in thousands of seasonal workers from Pacific islands nations to help farmers pick fruit crops in country areas that have suffered acute labour shortages.

Australia's planned immigration intake has increased every year since 1997, although the number actually settling in Australia fell by about 20,000 in 2001-02.

Evans said the final number of immigrants that Australia would accept has yet to be determined. The government would decide that in the lead-up to the national budget to be delivered on May 12.  新财年预算会公布最终配额。

But he said the government would continue to target immigrants with skills for sectors where there is continued high demand, including the nursing and health sectors.

"We've been focused very much at the high-skill end over the years, and we will continue to be focused on the skills we need," he said.

Evans said about half of the skilled settlers in Australia come as temporary workers and then decide to stay permanently.

Australia has accepted nearly 7 million immigrants since the end of World War II.

这个沙发坐的很悲惨
今天吃饭的时候刚听同学说的
老虎大人，你觉得今年7月份毕业申请的人受的影响大吗

个人猜测MODL会削减掉不少专业
配额减少意味着排队变长 总周期也会变长
如果长到一定程度（比如境内的都要等2年） 移民局有可能会考虑提分 当然短期内还不可能

要看经济情形了 如果明年好转 那么会变好
都是取决于劳工市场的需求的 所以主要还得看中国经济

这是我个人的情况！

今天雅思成绩刚出来！
三个6.5分，一个7分
我在澳洲读的Bachelor of Business
现在在读Master of Professional Accounting，今年7月毕业
目前就在等毕业了，就可以递交材料了！

你还是争取四个7吧 会很快。

减少移民是预料中的事了

Australia has accepted nearly 7 million immigrants since the end of World War II. 了不得。。。 这应该还不包括这些人在澳洲出生的后代。

护士受影响吗？

护士不受影响

太好了，不然今年7月毕业 就要打道回府了

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