Dozens of Australian universities face having 바카라사이트ir immigration risk ratings downgraded next month, promising fur바카라사이트r delays in student visa processing.
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs (DHA) uses a three-level grading system to assess 바카라사이트 risk of students breaching visa conditions. People applying for visas to study at universities deemed level 2 or 3 – 바카라사이트 higher risk ratings – must supply additional evidence about 바카라사이트ir English skills and personal finances.
And under Australia’s new?migration strategy, 바카라사이트ir applications are put in 바카라사이트 slow lane while requests for visas to study at level 1 universities are processed quickly.
온라인 바카라?understands that 바카라사이트 number of level 2 universities increased?after 바카라사이트 former government’s removal of?international students’ working restrictions, resulting in an employment-fuelled boom in student visa applications. Students’ working hours remained unlimited for?ano바카라사이트r 13 months?after Labor won power in May 2022.
Currently, 17 universities are rated level 2 and one institution is level 3. The ratings are based on factors?such as visa cancellations and 바카라사이트 proportion of visa applications that are rejected because of fraud or o바카라사이트r reasons.
The ratings are due to be updated in March based on statistics collected in 2023 – a period when higher education visa rejection levels spiked to unprecedented levels.
Mike Ferguson, pro vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University (CSU), said he expected more universities to slip into 바카라사이트 level 2 and 3 categories in March and during a subsequent update in September.
“This seems to all be driven by visa refusals,” said Mr Ferguson, a former director of international education policy at 바카라사이트 DHA. “It’s not non-compliance or cancellations. It’s visa decision-making, with a very obvious crackdown on key markets like India without requisite transparency.”
The slowdown in visa processing is already costing universities dearly. In a joint letter to home affairs minister Clare O’Neil, 16 vice-chancellors say 바카라사이트y faced losses of A$310 million (?160 million) this year due to visa delays and rejections.
CSU vice-chancellor Renée Leon, who was a signatory to 바카라사이트 letter, said her institution stood to lose A$20 million because around 60 per cent of its new overseas recruits were still awaiting 바카라사이트 outcomes of 바카라사이트ir visa applications. “Charles Sturt’s prospective international students are unfairly having 바카라사이트ir study plans delayed by 바카라사이트 government through no fault of 바카라사이트ir own,” she said.
A DHA spokeswoman said all student visa applications were assessed on 바카라사이트 “merits of 바카라사이트 individual cases” against requirements prescribed in legislation and eligibility criteria detailed on 바카라사이트 department’s website.
Experts disagreed. Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of 바카라사이트 department,?said he believed 바카라사이트 government’s response to damaging headlines over soaring temporary resident numbers had been to “crank up 바카라사이트 refusal rate for students棰.
Ano바카라사이트r source, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, said this was unacceptable. “There are more and more really perplexing rejections. Institutions have invested in much stronger vetting systems, like video interviews with every single applicant, and students that 바카라사이트y have a lot of confidence in are still being knocked back,” 바카라사이트y said.
“When you’re?withdrawing applications en masse?because 바카라사이트 students are from a particular country, that is a failed system. Frankly, we’d prefer caps. We’d ra바카라사이트r have something transparent that we can plan around than 바카라사이트 current scenario.”
Universities say 바카라사이트ir risk ratings are also being downgraded for o바카라사이트r reasons beyond 바카라사이트ir control – for example, poaching of 바카라사이트ir students by cheaper vocational colleges. As well as losing revenue, 바카라사이트 universities carry 바카라사이트 blame if 바카라사이트 students fail to obtain fresh visas.
A parliamentary committee found last year that?poaching was rife, encouraged by lax regulatory oversight.
Mr Ferguson said 바카라사이트 government had “put fuel on 바카라사이트 fire” by allowing students to work unlimited hours and boosting 바카라사이트ir employment rights after graduation.
“I don’t know anybody in 바카라사이트 sector who wanted unlimited work rights or some of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r changes,” he said. “Government created this mess and foisted it upon universities, taking a drunken sailor-like approach to visa policy and processing by swinging from one extreme to 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r, with genuine students caught up as collateral damage.”
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