Australian immigration minister ordered the Department of Home Affairs to speed up the visa applications in a way to fulfill the shortage of skilled workers. Australia is recently dealing with a skilled worker shortage due to a backlog of visa applications as the effect of COVID -19 precautions. The visa norms were eased and the restrictions were uplifted recently.

The new Government's minister for Citizenship, immigration, multicultural affairs, and migration services said that Australia is currently dealing hard with the shortage of skilled workers. To ease the condition home affairs is trying to enhance the process of visa applications. Currently, the priority is to be left with no backlog of applications and to solve them on time.

Australian Skilled Migration Program

After the announcement of this order, the focus is to handle the delays in the processing wait for visa applications. More resources are announced that will add benefits to the applications. For a better-skilled migration system, it has shaped up to become reliable, reachable, and accessible. The employees from the migration program are guided to open the sponsored migration scheme for all applicants from all skilled occupations.

All About Visa Subclass 476

Australian immigration visa subclass 476 contains its set of advantages and is also known as the skilled–recognized graduate visa. This visa subclass 476 allows the international students to study in Australia for up to 18 months, and now, after changes took place the period is increased to 41 months with the changes made. The applicants are eligible to stay for the period in Australia and work in Australia.

Eligibility Criteria Visa Subclass 476

• The age of the student must be under 31 years.
• Candidates must have got their engineering degree from the special educational institutes and done recently, positively in 2 years.
• The student must not have held a primary visa 476 or subclass 485.

Engineering Qualifications For The Special Educational Institute

Any course that has been completed within 2 years to make you qualify for the subclass:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• Doctoral Degree
• Postgraduate Diploma

These degrees must be obtained from the listed engineering streams including:

• Structural engineering
• Civil engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Mechanical, production, and plant engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Electrical and electronics engineering
• Mining and material engineering

Conclusion

With the changes applicable, skilled candidates get their chance to stay for longer in Australia. The wait for the processing cuts down on the backlog of applications. Candidates waiting for 3-4 years will be able to get the applications processed and stay for up to 41 months with updates. Still, if you have any doubt about the same, the education embassy is a leading migration agent in Australia and can guide you with the same. We are MARA-registered migration agents who help you with your applications for Australia. We help the applicants for the Parent visa, partner visa, skilled migration visa, study visa, visitor visa, and many more. For more information and migration law updates you can contact us today.