Australia is accused of cracking down on poor immigrants whilst opening its arms to wealthy ones says the USA Today.

Countries around the world are lining up to attract the wealthy Chinese.

The USA Today reports that more than half of all Chinese multimillionaires have either left or plan to emigrate from China. It is apparently becoming a competitive business as more global suitors try and entice the wealthy Chinese, with speedy processing and relatively lenient criteria so long as the applicants can show them the money.

It’s no secret that the significant investor visa with its ‘888’ labelling was aimed at the Chinese. And it has hit the target. Chinese nationals now account for over 90% of the 545 applications.

Dear All,

It is my view, that  policy measure requiring 6 month of  trading for start up business nominating  RSMS visa applicant is illegal. PAM 3 sets up additional requirements outside legislative framework. Has anyone challenged it before ?

 DIBP has obvious difficulties with interpreting their own policy refusing to answer simple question, asked via agent's gateway . See below :

Migration Alliance has received information from the MRT-RRT this afternoon.  The MRT-RRT have asked that Migration Alliance inform migration agents as follows:

Online lodgement of new applications for review by the Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal (the tribunals) is available on the tribunals’ website.

Online lodgement is a convenient service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Applications can be lodged online from any computer that has internet connection, an up-to-date browser and JavaScript enabled. Application lodgement by hand, post and fax is still available. The MRT application fee can also be paid when lodging online, through a secure online payment system that accepts MasterCard and Visa credit cards.

The Irish Echo reports that there has been an increasing number of Irish illegals in Australia in recent years who have been located by DIBP and deported. But this is only a small part of a larger and growing problem.

The number of people living in Australia illegally is steadily increasing at a rate of about 5% per year or about 3000 people a year. As at 30 June 2013, DIBP statistics estimate that about 62,700 people were unlawfully living in Australia compared to 2010 when the figure was about 53,900.

Freelancer.com chief executive Matt Barrie has described a federal government report asserting there is no skills shortage in the information technology sector as “rubbish”, reports the Australian Financial Review.

In a scathing attack of the 2012-13 Skills Shortage report which concluded there is no shortage of seven specific types of IT workers, including analyst programmers, developer programmers and software engineers, Mr Barrie asserts that the report is misleading

““What they’re talking about are technician level jobs, literally IT tech support roles. They’re not talking about software engineering or the real jobs that you need in a modern technology company,” he said.

“I would like someone to explain what the difference between ‘developer programmer’ and ‘software engineer’ is, because being an adjunct associate professor in the space and having hired hundreds of people in the industry I have no idea.