Australian Immigration Daily News

A big change is looming for Australians, with already frustrated renters expected to be hit the hardest.

More than 700,000 people are expected to move to Australia by the end of next year, adding to the squeeze on the nation’s already very tight rental market.

Tuesday’s budget is forecasting 400,000 people will have migrated to Australia by the end of this financial year and another 315,000 people will have moved here by the end of 2024.

Tourists will pay $40 more ($190 overall), a backpacking visa will cost $130 more ($640 overall), and students will pay $65 more ($715 overall).

There’ll also be a 40 percentage point increase for business innovation and investment visas.

The government says the changes will raise more than $100 million each year, which will fund improvements to the visa processing system.

For many women, their visa situation makes them especially vulnerable to family and domestic violence. To address this, the Government is providing:

• $10 million over four years from 2023-24 to expand the family violence provisions within the Migration Regulations 1994 and support visa holders experiencing domestic and family violence, including secondary applicants for permanent visa subclasses, offshore temporary Partner visa applicants and Prospective Marriage visa holders.

These changes accompany our extension of the TVP and build on recent changes to ‘non-judicial’ evidence requirements for temporary visa holders coming forward for assistance.

The Australian Government is investing an additional $630 million through the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Border Force to improve Australia’s migration program and build on Australia’s already strong border and national security settings.

These investments complement the Government’s proposed vision for a targeted, simpler migration system that serves our national interests and helps migrants thrive in our society and economy. The total investment includes the following new measures:

Migration program and settlement services

The Government is ensuring the migration system delivers the skilled migrants needed to address persistent skills shortages, by allocating around 70 per cent of places in the 2023- 24 Permanent Migration Program to the Skill stream. Partner and child visas will remain demand-driven.

This will complement medium and longer-term efforts to address domestic skill deficits through education, training and sectoral reform.

Source: Joint-Media-Release---Clare-ONeill-MP-and-Andrew-Giles-MP.pdf

and The-Hon-Jim-Chalmers----Net-Overseas-Migration---Transcript.pdf and