Australia's skilled visa programs are designed to select people who will make a positive contribution to the Australian economy and labor market and assist Australian businesses to access workers with skills that cannot be met in the local labor market.
Since the new government has been in place, the Department of Home Affairs has finalized over 2,780,000 Visas.
This includes over 43,000 temporary skilled applications and over 47,000 permanent skilled visa applications.
This has been shown clearly in the processing of the Visa 189 invitations.
The new labor government has pointed out that their primary focus at this stage is to:
- Clear the visa backlogs caused by the delay in processing time during Pandemic Covid-19.
- Address skills shortages
Minister Andrew Giles states that the visa backlog will come to a "manageable" level before Christmas.
Currently, the government has produced new direction 100 to address the issue of businesses crying out for skilled workers.
