Given a chance, they land on their feet and potentially can become job creators, this is what figures released for the first time by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) seem to indicate.

According to the ABS figures, migrants generated $38 billion in total income in 2009-10. Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of migrant taxpayers were Skilled, 28 per cent were Family migrants and 4 per cent were Humanitarian migrants. On average, skilled migrants earned a median wage of $43,593 and were from Britain, India, China, South Africa and the Philippines. Family migrants, who have been reunited with family members in Australia earned a median wage of $30,000 and humanitarian visa holders, earned a median wage of $27,000.

“While almost two-thirds of migrant taxpayers were migrants with a Skilled visa — reporting $26 billion in Employee income — Humanitarian migrants displayed greater entrepreneurial qualities and reported a higher proportion of income from their own unincorporated businesses and this income increased sharply after five years of residency,” noted Jenny Dobak from the ABS.

Migrants born in the UK reported the most total income at $8.8 billion, while migrants born in India were the second largest income contributors with $5.3 billion of total income. Migrants born in South Africa comprised only 5 per cent of all migrant taxpayers but received $2.8 billion in total income. People from Sudan and Sierra Leone earned the most income within the humanitarian category.

Median Employee incomes for Skilled males exceeded the median Employee income for Skilled females across all age groups. Almost 55 per cent of migrant taxpayers were males reporting 65 per cent or $24 billion of total income.

The statistics only included figures on permanent migrants, excluding people on temporary visas such as 457 or students visas who have been under particular scrutiny lately after the 7-Eleven franchise chain was exposed in Australia for grossly under-paying staff on student visas. Under the Abbott government, 13,750 people are granted a humanitarian visa a year. These figures are set to increase to 18,750 annually from 2018. The Abbott government yesterday announced a one-off increase of 12,000 humanitarian visa places to help resettle the estimated 4 million people displaced by the crisis in Syria.

The Abbott government today announced a commitment to increase the existing refugee intake of 13,750 people to 18,750 by 2018.

The Government has confirmed the 12,000 places it announced today will come on top of that previous commitment.

"We will move very quickly, but everyone who is resettled in Australia will be subject to the usual security, health and character checks," said Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

"Our focus for these new 12,000 permanent resettlement places will be those people most in need of permanent protection — women, children and families from persecuted minorities who have sought refuge in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey... the most vulnerable of all."

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com

Apparently the Fuhrer is furious about Operation Fortitude. 

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A person who holds permanent residency status in Australia, but then returns to their home country and remains there for a long period of time may encounter significant difficulty in getting a Resident Return visa to regain their permanent residency status. 

The eligibility criteria for a Resident Return visa (Subclass 155) that are specified in Schedule 2 of the Migration Regulations  specify not only that the applicant must have “substantial business, cultural, employment or personal ties with Australia which are of benefit to Australia” (clause 155(212)(3A)(a), but also, if the person has been absent for a continuous period of 5 years or more since the date of grant of the applicant’s most recent permanent visa”, must demonstrate that there were “compelling reasons” for the absence (clause 155.212(3A)(b). 

So what reasons for being absent from Australia for a period of more than 5 years can be considered sufficiently “compelling” to support the grant of a Resident Return visa.  This question was considered by the Federal Court of Australia in the leading case of Paduano v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2005) FCA 211 and was recently re-visited by Judge Neville of the Federal Circuit Court in Cirillo v Minister for Immigration & Anor, (2015) FCCA 2137 (14 August 2015).