What options are available to you if you come to Australia on a Higher Education student visa and you discover that the course of study is too tough for you and you are failing?

Can you withdraw from the course and then re-enroll in a vocational education training course that might be easier for you to handle?

And if you do that, will withdrawing from the higher education course place your student visa in jeopardy?

There are certain dynamics of the Australian market that make it an ideal place to start a business. The chances of an innovative business idea working in Australia are high. Some of the reasons you should invest in Australia are:

• The availability of knowledgeable and skilled workers – Australia has one of the highest literacy rates and therefore finding someone with the skills you require to run your business will be easy. If you want to hire workers for abroad, you can do so via the general skilled migration visa scheme.
• The affordability – Australia has one of the richest middle class in the world and they are enthusiastic about trying new things. So if your business brings them something they think is unique, then it is likely that your business will flourish.
• The Convenience – Ecommerce has already become popular in most Australian cities and so you don’t even have to invest too much in an office or commercial property, you can simply start a business online.

When considering starting a business in Australia, or to migrate to the country as the owner of a business or investor, knowing which immigration route suits you best is important. Once you know which immigration strategy you need to use to apply for a business visa, the process of planning the start of your business in the country will be a lot easier.

There are two main categories of visas which people can opt for themselves or for the people they employ. They are:

The Australian government understands that people need to be close to their loved ones and that they are going to be healthier and happier if they have the support of their loved ones around them.  It is because of these reasons that the family migration scheme allows those who are eligible to sponsor their family members too come and live with them in the country on either a temporary or permanent visa.

In order for this to be done, both the sponsor and the applicant need to fulfil the eligibility requirements which are different for each separate category in the family migration scheme. The sponsor has to support their relatives who come to the country till a period of two years from their arrival is and the applicant needs to fulfil all the eligibility requirements for the visa category they are applying for including the requirements of character and health.

The following are allowed to get family visas according to Australia’s immigration policy:

Recent statistics indicate that of 35,000 who are eligible for this visa only about 15 per cent actually bothered to apply for the visa which grants full work rights in Australia.

Data from the Immigration Department indicates that, of the 35,127 graduates who held a 573 visa on March 15 last year, just 5836 pursued the 485 visa — known as post-study work rights visa — on December 31, according to a report in The Australian.

Of those, just 4685 were still in Australia, the rest overseas. Are students unware of their rights, or are the job prospects here so poor that they have to return home. There are even suggestions that the $1470 visa application charge has become concern for some students.

Complaining that an increased population would not spread out across the Australian continent but instead concentrate in the narrow fertile strip along the east coast, former NSW Premier and Foreign Minister under the Labor government has made a plea to drastically cut Australia’s migration program.

Media reports did not indicate what type of research or economic modelling Mr Bob Carr based his notions on when he took a swipe at current policies which take in about 190,000 permanent migrants a year.

Mr Carr said the country's population was far greater than "what we need and what we can absorb, environmentally and economically…And it's based on a flawed economic model — that is, we need to build up a domestic population.” Mr Carr's comments came after Australia's population officially hit 24 million shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media in Sydney, Mr Carr chose to compare Australia to Indonesia stating that, "Our rate of population growth is higher than that of Indonesia, which has got developing-world status.” He made no mention that the median age in Indonesia is about 28 years with life expectancy of 71 years and a fertility rate of 2.47. In Australia the median age about 38 years with life expectancy at 82 years and a fertility rate well under replacement levels and at its lowest levels in 10 years.

...