Australia is a first choice for skilled and talented people looking to move to an advanced nation for better prospects and opportunities. The Australian government has designed several visa categories, which facilitate Australia immigration from India. Few of these categories are, i.e. Australia Permanent residence visa, Study visa, Visit Visa, Family sponsored visa, etc. Australia is one of the best countries to immigrate to, based on various factors.
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA), Australia has increased its annual migration planning level for the program year 2023-2024. Earlier, the DHA used to invite 160,000, however, for the program year 2023-2024, Aussie government has allocated 190,000 visa places. It means, now, the government of Australia will accept 30,000 more immigrants this program year. The DHA has added most of these new visa places for skilled migration category.
Therefore, if you wish to move to Australia, this is the best time to apply for the same with increased immigration target and eased process requirements from the government of Australia.
Here are some key aspects of immigration to Australia from India, which lure the genuine aspirants in the region to relocate to Australia- the land down under.
Australia is famous for its organized migration system and easy-going immigration policies. Skilled migration and sponsored/nominated visas are the most common immigration pathways for Australia. Hence, let us look at the required eligibility for the most common Skilled visa categories in Australia. An applicant must:
Australia has designed a point-based immigration system to allow immigrants into the country. Hence, you need to score well in the point system to become eligible for migration to Australia.
You need a minimum of 65 points based on Age, Education, English proficiency, Work Experience, etc. factors to qualify for the above point-tested GSM visa categories. However, a higher point score can increase your chances of selection. Australia opens the periodic invitation rounds to issue ITA (Invitation to Apply) for the visa to the candidates with top point score based on some key selection factors, as mentioned below.
To qualify for the GSM category visas, i.e. Subclass 189/190/491, you need to score a minimum of 65 points out of 100 for the below-given factors:
Australia is one of the best countries in the world to immigrate to live, work, study or settle permanently with family. Here are a few key reasons to move to Australia this year.
As per the US News and World Report survey, Australia ranks among top 10 countries for quality of life, citizenship, education, etc. parameters. Moreover, it is also no.2 country in the world for Comfortable retirement. The best country survey report takes a sufficient sample size by talking to people in various countries and subsequently, give the ranking to the countries. Hence, Australia’s top ranking for most of the parameters of immigrant living explains how good a place it is especially for the new immigrants.
The Australian government every year invite about 190,000 new immigrants under skilled, business and family sponsored visa categories. The Department of Home Affairs, Australia invites most of the immigrants under skilled stream to meet the skill shortage across its various states and territories. Australia is home to many top IT companies and other fast-growing industries, which offer high paying jobs to the skilled and talented professional from overseas countries. Australia’s point based skilled migration system is one of the best in the world.
Australian government offers social security benefits to permanent residents, i.e. such as, free education for kids, health coverage for the family, etc. Moreover, the government offers various other social welfare schemes to Australian citizens and permanent residents, i.e. Unemployment benefit, age pension, parenting payment, youth allowance, maternity payment, etc. These Social Welfare schemes provide much needed help to the people, who are not able to help themselves in the society, due to various reasons.
If you are planning to immigrate to Australia this year as a skilled worker, you must confirm the cost involved in immigration to Australia on popular skilled visa categories. Let us take a look.
The General Skilled Migration Program (GSM) of Australia is a point based immigration program that invites skilled and talented people from overseas to apply for temporary or permanent skilled visa in Australia. The GSM has three popular and point-tested visa categories, i.e.
First two among the list above are permanent visas, while third one (Subclass 491) is the temporary visa allocated for five years by Department of Home Affairs, Australia. If you want to apply for any of the above visa categories, first, you need to check that you have a good point score (minimum 65 points out of 100) based on some crucial factors of your profile. These factors are age, education, English language ability, work experience, etc.
The Australia also has a Skilled Occupation List (SOL) for each visa category. Hence, before applying you also need to check whether your occupation listed in relevant SOL or not. In addition, you need to check whether you meet the eligibility point’s requirement or not. Subsequently, you can submit your Expression of Interest (EOI) in the online SkillSelect system. If your profile is selected, the Department of Home Affairs, Australia will send you ITA (Invitation to Apply) for visa.
