{"id":11137,"date":"2023-09-02T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/?p=11137"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:47:40","slug":"australian-federal-government-closure-the-pandemic-visa-for-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/australian-federal-government-closure-the-pandemic-visa-for-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Government Closure The Pandemic Visa For International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Australian Federal Government Closure The Pandemic Visa For International Students: <\/strong>The Australian Immigration Minister, Andrew Giles, and the Affairs Minister, Clare O’Neil, announced that the Pandemic visa (subclass 408) for all new international students would be closed from 2 September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The existing visa holders will remain legal until their visa expires. Also, they can extend this visa for another 6 months at around $405. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Starting from February 2024, the pandemic visa will be closed for all applicants (existing and new)  as it will be completely discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Covid 19, this visa was founded in 2020 to help international students trapped in Australia and to fill the labor need due to the international border closures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the Home affair’s latest figures, more than 17,000 students were given subclass 408 visas in 2022, compared to approximately 3,000 students in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Giles said in a statement that the Pandemic visa was an essential part of the visa system in Australia during the Covid 19. Also, during this time, many people on temporary visas helped Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He mentioned that we providing an opportunity for Pandemic Event visa holders to check the another visa option or plan to leave the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian government said people not eligible for any other visa option must leave the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement said that since the circumstances that led to the operation of the [Pandemic Event] visa no longer exist, this will ensure certainty in our visa system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Pandemic event visa scrapping, the Australian government has also reintroduced a cap on the number of hours the international students can work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1 July, students have been restricted to working only 48 hours per fortnight, eight hours more than the pre-2020 cap. Also, the government has ended employment exemptions for Working Holiday Visa holders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statement, these measures will reduce Net Overseas Migration, increasing after the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocates for international students have expressed concern that reinstating the working hour cap will add to the financial burden on a group already struggling with overseas loans and rising living expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grattan Institute report released earlier this year found that one in six migrant employees was paid less than the minimum salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economist Brendan Coates said that although international students were helpless to underpay work, the working cap was essential to maintain the visa system’s integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Coates said the student visa could be perceived as a low-skill work permit without a cap. He proposes changing the fortnightly cap to an annual one, offering more flexibility to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, it is all about the Australian Federal Government closure the Pandemic visa for international students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, keep visiting Course Mentor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:-<\/strong> www.abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian Federal Government Closure The Pandemic Visa For International Students: The Australian Immigration Minister, Andrew Giles, and the Affairs Minister, Clare O’Neil, announced that the Pandemic visa (subclass 408) for all new international students would be closed from 2 September.  The existing visa holders will remain legal until their visa expires. Also, they can extend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursementor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}