A new bill is before parliament that gives the Immigration Minister the power to deny long term international students their applications for permanent residency. Peter Mares reports.
Student visa applications
Kohler: The bulldozer crushing of our education industry
The new changes to the skilled migration program are crushing one of Australia’s biggest export industries: education. It wasn’t all shonky colleges, writes Alan Kohler, international students spent a whopping A$13.7b in 2007-08.
Indian students and Immigration: a case of too many cooks …
In the second of a three-part series, Geoff Maslen looks at immigration law and the stampede for visas by foreign students. What happens now to students who thought that would qualify for residency?







