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457 integrity review
I have received the following email today:
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Stakeholder,
As you may be aware, on 25 February 2014, the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash announced the Independent Review of Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme.
My name is John Azarias, and I have been appointed by the Minister to lead this review. The other panel members and I would like to seek your views on the integrity of the 457 programme.
We would like to advise that an “Invitation to Submit” has been published on the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s website.
www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Pages/reviews-and-inquiries/skilled-visa-programme.aspx
www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Pages/reviews-and-inquiries/invitation-review-of-integrity-457.aspx
We would welcome your submission to the panel. Please note that submissions close on 30 April 2014. All submissions will be published on the department’s website unless otherwise advised.
Your feedback and views will be most helpful in informing the findings of the review.
I look forward to receiving your submission.
Kind regards
John Azarias
Panel Lead
Independent Review of Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme
Comments
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Wednesday, 09 April 2014For those 457 visa applicants with no English, let the sponsoring employer set aside time during work ours, says x number of hours per week, to teach English. This agreement is embodied in Western Australi
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Wednesday, 09 April 2014
The reality is that the threshold for English language requirements for trade occupations was increased solely as a means of curtailing the number of applications by specific MODL occupations such as cooks and hairdressers. Changes in legislation and skilled assessment criteria have since made it impossible for any exploitation of the general skilled migration program for people in these trades.
I know many Australian born and qualified trades-persons who are highly regarded and extremely successful in their chosen occupations. Many of these hard working, tax paying, employment-providing individuals would fail the current required level [or any other level introduced in the future] of English language.
It beggars belief that an Australian worker is able to effectively work in their trade without literary skills but it is presumed that an overseas worker cannot.
Why is it assumed that a UK,USA, etc citizen has literary skills?
We should never forget that a deaf person from overseas is ineligible due to the speaking and listening requirements whilst other Govt departments directly encourage employers to hire those from our unemployment pool.
Until every Australian trades-person is subject to the same requirements that DIBP and recognised skilled assessing authorities require for overseas workers, the system can only seen as discriminant. -
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
"We would welcome your submission to the panel. Please note that submissions close on 30 April 2014."
Great! 5 working days to get it together. Now that's a real genuine commitment to stake holder input. Not!
You can see better window dressing in a Myer's display window at Easter and they are going broke !
Immigration blog
Dear Liana,
I suggest they reduce they IELTS requirment to 4.5 in average as previously Labor government always said it's for the visa 457 holder to understand OH&S requirement, so I think 4.5 is good enough based on DIBP and IELTS's definition of the IELTS's bands.
Thanks!
Henry Li