Skilled migrants with job offers will take top priority in the next financial year's immigration programme.

The Skilled Stream will continue to be the focus of Australia's immigration policy with almost 70 per cent of the visas allocated to address Australia's skills needs, including addressing skills shortages in regional Australia.

The 2014-15 migration program provides a total of 190 000 places including 128 550 for skilled migration, 60 885 places for family migration and 565 places for migration under the special eligibility stream.

'This Budget allocates almost 68 per cent of Australia's migration places to skilled migration, and reprioritises employer-sponsored visas,' said Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Scott Morrison.

'With the reprioritisation towards employer-sponsored visas, employers will be assisted in finding workers to fill vital positions where they have been unable to find local workers. This also protects Australian workers, who will have less direct competition from independent migrants who arrive without a guaranteed job.

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A foreign worker facing deportation after government-agency raids on market gardens, meatworks and other farms in Western Australia now says that he has been offered a new identity and a fake passport by the job-agency, which had arranged his original visa, to return to Australia again.

Crime syndicates are already planning their next move by providing guarantees of a new identity and a job to the deported illegals for a return back to Western Australia.

Some 200 illegal workers are facing deportation after being detained in the unprecedented multi-agency raids on market gardens, meatworks and other farms in Western Australia on May 3.

The West Australian reports that it has interviewed one worker who revealed that he was unaware that he was working illegally in Australia. He claimed to have originally come to Australia after responding to a newspaper advertisement in Malaysia which promised Australian working visas. Instead of a work visa, he got a standard three-month tourist visa and he claims he had no idea he was living and working here illegally until the raids began.

He says that the same Kuala-Lumpur based job-agency that first arranged for him to travel to Perth is now providing a guarantee for his return, at a discounted rate.

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