Australia is Asking Applications for 20,000 Skilled Immigrants from ASIA and EUROPE

Australia is Asking Applications for 20,000 Skilled Immigrants from ASIA and EUROPE

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Tim Johnston

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1. Click here Australian Department of Immigration Home Page on Migration to Australia
   
   
2. Click here Advice from Australian Deparment of Immigration on "Migrating to Australia as a Skilled Person "
   
   
3. Click here on Skilled Migration Requirements in Australia
   
   
4. Click here LIST OF SKILLS REQUIRED BY AUSTRALIA under the Skill Migration Category
   
   
5. Click here on FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS on migration to Austalia

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Australia is launching a drive to attract 20,000 skilled workers from Asia and Europe to counter a critical skills shortage that is starting to threaten the country's booming economy.

Abul Rizvi, Australian immigration spokesman, said the country's biggest recruitment drive for migrants in more than 40 years was seeking doctors, engineers and tradespeople as well as pastry cooks and hairdressers.

The Australian government says it is going to increase the number of people with specific skills entering the country by more than a quarter, to 97,500.

The country expects to accept a total of between 130,000 and 140,000 immigrants THIS year.

Mr Rizvi said on Tuesday:

“The most crucially short are engineering occupations and a number of related trade occupations such as welders etc, that are associated with the resources boom that is currently going on in Australia.”

He said the resource extraction industry, the fuel for Australia's current economic strength, is “facing major skills shortages and needs a significant injection of skilled workers to make sure it can meet the demands being placed on it”.

The government has tried to solve the problem domestically, putting considerable resources into training and ensuring that “the choice to enter a trade is valued by a young person's peers and the broader community” which points to one reason why, in a booming economy, Australia is having to recruit abroad.

Among the government initiatives announced at the last budget were a further 24 technical colleges and increased support for young people learning a trade.

However, that is not expected to be sufficient to make up the shortfall in labour skills if the economy continues growing.

Officials from the Department of Immigration will visit London, Berlin, Chennai and Amsterdam this year to encourage more people to move to Australia.

Visa clearance will be speeded up for those who qualify.

However, the immigration drive has been greeted with scepticism in some quarters.

One of the groups targeted by the immigration drive is to be automotive electricians.

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