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Indonesian Immigration Official claims that Australian government’s efforts to stop refugee boats from coming to the country to be ineffective as there have been no positive results since implementation of new measures. Head of Indonesian immigration enforcement, Djoni Muhammad, said that the Australian Pacific Solution, under which the Australian government is transferring asylum seekers to [...]

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Tourists will find it much easier to apply for an Australian tourism visa after the Australian immigration authorities begin their online tourism visa service next year. According to local media sources, Australian immigration department has announced that it will be introducing an online tourism visa service in 2013 which would streamline the application process of [...]

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Australian immigration authorities have announced that they will be considering possible initiatives to crackdown on foreign flight crew members who are also flying domestic flights in Australia after arriving to the country. Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) officials have announced that the government will be reviewing visa arrangements for flight crew members for particular [...]

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Australia has become the most expensive country for foreign students with respect to education and living costs, as compared to other countries of the world according to a recent report. The study, conducted by HSBC in the United Kingdom, suggested that Australia was at the top of the list of most expensive countries in the [...]

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Australia’s acting immigration minister Kate Lundy has defended Australian government’s decision to increase the cost of Australian visas and stated it will not have adverse affect on the travelers to the country. Australia has recently announced hike in the visa application fees of various categories starting from the first day of the year 2013. The [...]

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Australian immigration minister, Chris Bowen, has announced the quota for refugee intake from the priority regions around the world this Friday October 26, 2012. The new refugee quota includes the conflict affected countries as well the transit countries for the asylum seekers. Australia already has increased the annual intake of refugees for year 2012-13 from [...]

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An Australian report claims almost 1,000 asylum seekers died while attempting to enter Australia over the past decade. According to statistical data compiled by the Border Crossing Observatory, based at Monash University, thousands have paid with their lives trying to claim asylum in Australia, some of which died detained in Australian detention facilities. The study [...]

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Australia’s increasing immigration costs could have an impressionable impact on the visa application charges of some of the country’s visa categories. The Mid-Year Fiscal and Economical Outlook (MYEFO) report shows that the country’s immigration system will experience an increase in payments for several of its immigration programs due to billions of dollars in expenditures and [...]

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Immigration experts in overseas and local immigration consultancy firms are claiming that the compulsory test that foreign students have to go through while applying for an Australian Student Visa is much too open to abuse by Australian immigration officers. The ‘Genuine Temporary Entrant’ (GTE) test was introduced by the Australian immigration authorities in order to [...]

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Australia may grant the contract for running the Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Manus Island refugee center to G4S security firm in coming days. As per the officials from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), the government is going through negotiations with the G4S management on a contract to take responsibility of the PNG refugee [...]

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