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Indian, Vietnamese and Nepalese students targeted by immigration
Immigration officials have put up the shutters against students from the subcontinent, causing the first setback in the education sector’s comeback from its 2009 crash, notes a report from The Australian
Student visa grants to these countries fell in the June quarter, after the crackdown on students from India, Vietnam and Nepal by the department of Immigration (DIBP).
Inadequate visa applications by unqualified brokers which fail to properly address the genuine student criteria is often cited as the reason why so many applications from these countries are failing.
Student Visa grants to these countries fell last year by 13 per cent, 18 per cent and 16 per cent respectively. In addition to these refusals, the DIBP cancelled a record 11,000 student visas in the last financial year, which is a 30 per cent increase in the number of cancellations from the previous year.
"The Immigration Department has acted on concerns around genuine student applications over the past few months [and] officials were imposing “stronger discipline” in the application of the genuine temporary entrant test, which gauges students’ academic and financial capacity to live and study in Australia" Phil Honeywood, Executive Director of The International Education Association of Australia told The Australian.
He however says that the growth out of China, Brazil, Taiwan and Colombia has made up for the increase in refusals to students from the subcontinent.
According to the report, student visa grants rose by 9 per cent for students from China and 8 per cent for Brazil, which leapfrogged Vietnam to become Australia’s fourth top market.
Mr Honeywood warned that Australia may be becoming over reliant on students from China saying, “We are still overly focused on two or three key markets, and our curriculum is in danger of becoming stale.”
The Australian reports that enrolments from Brazil could dwindle next year with the freezing of the country’s Science without Borders program, while Indian students are reportedly looking to the US following Barack Obama’s bid to introduce a six-year post study work visa for science and technology graduates.
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Friday, 06 November 2015Immigration now actively encourages the use of overseas education Agents. See http://singapore.embassy.gov.au/files/sing/DIAC%20CHECKLIST%20(Student%20Visas)%20CR11.pdf from the Australian High Commission in Singapore.
This is even more disappointing when I regularly hear reports of Immigration counter staff in Australia telling people that they don't need a Registered Agent to lodge their application. -
Friday, 06 November 2015
Hi Raul, I can concur with your findings. My recent client was advised that he didn't need to use a migration agent. My client was the victim of a fraudulent agent and sought my advice on what steps he should take to resolve his situation. I mentioned that if he wanted to report the fraudulent agent (non-registered) he can report this to DIBP. He tried to and one of the first things they mentioned was that he did not need to use a migration agent. This constant disrespect from DIBP officers is really getting out of hand. How can an RMA project the image of integrity when DIBP officers loath RMAs.
I deal a lot with onshore student visa extensions and DIBP are getting ridiculously strict for nationals of countries they don't want in this country. I had 2 clients going to the same school. Both were over the age of 30 and both had traveled extensively to Australia on Tourist visas. One was Malaysia, the other from Belgium. Both had dependents included in their application. My client from Malaysia was married and from Belgium, only in a de facto relationship. Both had GTE requested, but the Belgium student had an easier criteria to reply to. Both did not have strong financial documentation (the Malaysian student actually had more). The shocker comes when they rejected my Malaysian student based on her travel history. They highlighted that since 2012, she has been in Australia on Tourist visas to the amount of 320 days. This was considered excessive in the eyes of the DIBP case officer. My client was accompanying her husband who was on the work and holiday visa, hence the extended travel period (they didn't bother to consider this). It was a very bias assessment which led to my client's visa refusal. Her visa took almost 3 months to assess, where as my Belgium client only had to wait 6 weeks.
I guess DIBP has a hidden prejudicial policy somewhere that we have no access to. If applying for subsequent visas was a big no no which allows DIBP officers to enforce a refusal, then 80% of student visa applications should be refused. In my years working in the education industry, I have not heard of many students coming to Australia purely for quality education. -
Sunday, 08 November 2015
The Indian students are enrolling to study in Australia but this kind of process will not help them to understand what Australia offers to them and USA
There are lots of students changing their mind and enrolling in USA uni -
Wednesday, 09 December 2015
Frankly, what is a genuine course, never mind a genuine student? So many courses on offer in Australia are mickey mouse courses, even uni courses. Many of the students cheat because their English is not good enough to participate and pass their courses. Everyone is in so much of a hurry. It takes many years to learn a language and become proficient enough to study in that language and succeed.
Educational institutions are going out of their way to cater for all comers for the money. Perhaps there should be some serious thought put into the whole process. It should not be a thriving industry for the wrong reasons and blame is sheeted home to the students. I won't do student visas, except for genuine renewals. Too many issues, too many commissions on the line. The education agents have it all sewn up. It's a factory. -
Thursday, 21 January 2016
What is an education agent really, other than an unqualified commission seeker who has no concern about the clients and why is DIBP happy to receive applications from them and not Migration Agents who pay massive fees and expenses for licenses. I can name a few poor performing Education Agents.
A recent answer for a refusal after the applicant failed an interview "Sorry I was so busy I did not have time to advise you what to expect at the interview"
They are happy with percentage success rates where Migration Agents treat each Client's needs professionally
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This is a supervision problem created by DIBP who purport to register Education Agents. The solution is simple only receive applications from registered Migration agents. if DIBP is serious about quality control then it needs to enforce standards by not receiving applications from Education Agents and not every Toomi, Diku and Hari.