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Farmers hope to start the new year with agriculture visa workers, but there are stumbling blocks

Agriculture visa was first announced in June 2021

To many, the Agricultural visa seemed to be a perfect visa to attract Southeast Asian farm hands to fix labour shortages within the Australian agriculture industry.

The Australian Agriculture visa is designed for primary industry sectors, including horticulture, meat processing, dairy, wool, grains, fisheries (including aquaculture) and forestry.

According to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, the agriculture visa "came into effect" on October 1

However, it has been there for four months now, and no overseas workers have arrived under the new scheme because no countries have signed up for it.

So what is causing the delays in the implementation of the Agricultural Visa?

We are waiting on the bilateral agreements with a few Southeast Asian countries that the foreign affairs minister is negotiating.

Read more about Agriculture Visa and its requirement published by Australian Government here >

[Latest Australian Immigration news in APRIL 2022 has been published here]

We do not know how many times we say Happy Lunar New year, but it is never too late to say it. This is for our first-time-visit customers.

Happy Lunar New Year, and welcome to a year of Tiger!

Let’s make a confident and courageous start to the year, following the lead of the Tiger.

There is plenty of good news, with the border opening for visitor visas and positive reforms.

Today’s blog covers all the latest immigration updates in Australia until 11/02/2022

Please watch the video if you find it more interesting; there is a lot of essential news, especially for Skilled workers overseas planning to move to Australia and international students or Working holiday makers.