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Australia – a land of opportunity. Secure your career by Partnering with FBP

Sunday, 01 November 2020 by FBP International
Australia – a land of opportunity. Secure your career by Partnering with FBP.

Partner with us! FBP International is one of the leading Australian Immigration and Settlement Consultancy. We have a team of professionals who has more than 30 years of experience in the migration field. FBP International is also known for being the best Australian migration settlement experts.

Why us, you ask?

  • We have our dedicated professional team with extensive knowledge trained by the best immigration lawyers in Australia.
  • One of the FBP’s senior management onboard has more than 17 years of hands-on experience in Australian immigration and settlement consultancy businesses.
  • FBP has been providing six years of complete end to end Australian immigration visa and settlement services.
  • We are associated with qualification Australia (QA), which provides an Australian certificate and transcripts. To know more about QA, here’s a link you can book your free video consultation with our professional Australian Migration agents or click the link https://www.fbpintl.ae/ae10p.
  • FBP will help guide you through all the processes from start to bottom, and we also take care of post landing services (PLS) to help you settle in Australia.

Australia has long been a favoured migration hub for a promising and secure future for families and individuals. Australia has always welcomed qualified migrants and made it quick and convenient for deserving migrants to live under. As a result, Australia’s migration company is still looking for business growth to support and provide advice to many of its clients.

FBP International has evolved in the migration sector over several years. It has established a state-of-the-art IT Infrastructure & Technology to support its affiliates around the nation and its clients in a significant migration process. With the latest events worldwide in 2020, FBP International has released online video consultations for clients that have been an enormous success. Our partners can start this company with minimal investment and the comfort of their very own home – all they would want is a laptop, phone, and internet access, and they’re all expected to launch this risk-free plug-n-play business model.

FBP International’s management has tried and proven all kinds of business models, planned and implemented a successful business model. This ensures that our partners are guaranteed.

ROI within 1-3 months of starting this company. In addition to acquiring immediate cash flow with high income, FBP International’s partners will gain unique benefits, such as continuous support from the outset, such as:

Awareness and training of goods, support for administration, Advertising and Marketing Help, Sales Assistance, Help for IT infrastructure, Judicial and professional assistance. If you want to thrive and achieve success in the Australian Migration and Settlement Market in your region and country, then become our Partner today. Our professional management team will advise and assist you with anything you need to become the best. FBP International is open to business – as – usual, so that you can start your migration business in your native country to support your group migrate to Australia.

With a 99 percent success rate and more than +18,000 registered customers, FBP International, is the Australian Migration Specialist. If you want to thrive in the Australian Migration and Settlement Market in your area and/or country. We would love to have qualified entrepreneurs and business owners to have onboard with FBP international. We can work together to succeed and make big in the Australian migration and settlement business in your region or country; partner with us by becoming our sales agent, or become our master franchise.

For further information click on this link https://www.fbpintl.com/become-our-sales-agent/ and our management will get back to you.

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Start Your Own Successful Online Business in GCC

Thursday, 08 October 2020 by FBP International

Migrating to Australia is becoming an attractive option for more and more people, especially those living in the GCC regions looking for better opportunities abroad. Australia is known to be an ideal migration destination for migrants and their families looking to work, live, and settle.

The Department of Home Affairs recognizes the substantial contributions migration has on Australia’s economic prosperity, national wellbeing, and social cohesion. Thus, issuing 160,000 allocated visas when they announced the 2020-2021 Migration Program Year.

 

Opportunity Strikes

With the above in mind, starting an Australian migration consultancy business is an excellent investment given the number of immigrants being invited to apply to immigrate to Australia. In fact, consultancy is a big business in this part of the world. According to the latest report from Source Global Research, the GCC consulting market grew by 9.9 percent in 2019 to hit $3.3 billion.

The process of migrating to Australia is complex – this is where Australian Migration Consultancies like FBP International can step in to provide guidance, honest and transparent professional services to help make the process hassle-free.

Think about it – if the Australian migration process were easy, would there be a need for knowledgeable and ethical immigration consultancies?

Many migrants are unsure of how to begin their Australian visa application because they don’t know who to talk to when they face immigration issues. Therefore, it has become imperative to set up your own immigration agency in your home country, like in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

 

Setting Up Your Own Australian Migration Business

These businesses offer migration services including but not limited to submitting visa applications, providing visa advice, and other visa applications and related matters. Setting up an Australian Migration Business means helping your clients handle and solve all their immigration-related concerns.

Starting your own Australia Migration Business in countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain would be a wise business investment. This is because immigration consulting businesses in the GCC region will have potential migrants that would need the services of Australian Migration experts to help them make the right decisions.

In FBP International’s case, we can provide legal advice on all things related to Australian Migration and will handhold clients throughout the process ensuring that our qualified clients will get their Australian permanent residency visas.

The management team at FBP International possess an ocean of knowledge on all types of Australian Visas not limited to; Australian Visa Migration Services, Documentation and File Preparation Services, Application Lodgement Preparation Services, Providing Australian Certification and Transcripts through Qualifications Australia to their clients, providing complete hand-holding Settlement Service Packages through Post Landing Services like Accommodation in Australia.

Immigration consulting firms tend to be situated in areas where they are migrants to attract the right audience. You can even start your own immigration consulting business from the comfort of your home as well. All you need to do is create an office space in your house, a laptop, mobile, and Internet connection.

Speaking of which… FBP International has an exciting business opportunity for you!

 

Learn from the Best in the Australian Migration Business

Do you want to provide Migration Services to your local community and help them live out their dreams of migrating to the Land of Opportunity? You’ve come to the right place!

With over 30+ years of cumulative experience in Australian Migration, FBP International has grown to be a powerful brand identity utilising a proven business system. After those prosperous years of providing Australian Migration services to +18,000 clients, FBP International is proud to announce that our management is looking to mentor and assist other young and upcoming agents to succeed in this business.

 

We currently have an exciting opportunity for you to start your own successful online Australian Migration Business and become a partner with FBP International!

Set up an online business with a ready-made business model and the opportunity to learn from Migration Australian Registered Authority (MARA) agents and an Australian legal team.

Our partners can start this business with low investment and from the comfort of their own home – all they need is a laptop, phone, and internet connection and they are all set to run this risk-free plug-n-play business model.

Get paid to help your community migrate to Australia! Our partners receive ROI within 1-3 months of starting this business and start earning immediate cash flow from day one with high profits. On top of that, FBP International’s partners will receive exclusive benefits such as ongoing support including:

  • Product Knowledge and Training
  • Administration Support
  • Advertising & Marketing Support
  • Sales Support
  • IT Infrastructure Support
  • Legal & Technical Support

FBP International is open for business as usual for you to start your migration business in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain and help your community Migrate to Australia.

If you would like to succeed and make big in the Australian Migration and Settlement Business in your region and/or country, then click here to become our partner today. Our expert management team will guide and support you in everything you need to be the best.

 

Sources:

Australian Bureau of Statistics – Migration, Australia, April 4, 2020

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/migration-australia/latest-release

Profitable Venture – How to Start an Immigration Consulting Business https://www.profitableventure.com/start-immigration-consulting-business/

Arabian Business – Consultancy revenues in the GCC hit $3.3bn in 2019, March 25, 2020

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/politics-economics/443329-consultancy-revenues-in-the-gcc-hit-33bn-in-2019

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‘It is not a pipe dream’: five things Australia could do now to end poverty

Monday, 01 July 2019 by FBP International
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In New Zealand and Canada, poverty rates are falling dramatically. What would it take to lift the forgotten Australians living in poverty?

‘It’s not a knowing problem; it’s very much a doing problem’ – the director of Logan Together, Matthew Cox. Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian
The federal election is history, and those who had counted on a Labor government to focus on reducing inequality and easing poverty were disappointed. Scott Morrison’s government has made clear it has no intention of increasing the base rate of the Newstart payment for unemployed Australians – the most intense welfare campaign of the election – even though it has seen no real increase for a quarter of a century, and despite suggestions from the Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, that an increase would be “good for the economy”.

Yet the 10% of Australians living in income poverty remain (13% if you take the cost of housing into account), with up to a million of us living in persistent and entrenched poverty, unable to participate fully in life.

As the Productivity Commission has noted, our poverty rate has remained stubbornly high for 30 years, despite Australia being one of the wealthiest countries in the world and enjoying decades of economic growth. As its former chairman Peter Harris has said: “Perhaps simply shifting money around and doing more of the same is not sufficient.”

There are dozens of ideas about what we could do to reduce poverty. Here are five we could do now, if we chose.

1. Scale up things that work

“It’s not a knowing problem; it’s very much a doing problem,” says Matthew Cox, the director of Logan Together, a 10-year community led project with one aim: use the evidence already at hand to give children aged 0 to 8 the best start in life. Why those years? Because the “science is incredibly clear” that “if the first years of life go well then those little kids turn into teenagers who do well and those teenagers tend to turn into adults who do well”.

Logan is a fast-growing city of around 315,000 people about 45 minutes from Brisbane’s city centre. It is well known that poverty is concentrated: in Queensland, for instance, more than half of the most disadvantaged people live in just four places: Logan, Moreton Bay, Bundaberg and Ipswich.

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Cox outlines the challenge. In Logan, there are about 45,000 children aged 0 to 8. Most of them are doing fine, but about 15,000 are not. It means that, in five suburbs within the city, fewer than 20% attend kindergarten, when the evidence is that formal programs make a big difference to language and social skills when children start school.

When Logan Together began in 2015, about 12% of women were receiving little or no antenatal care and between 5% and 6% were turning up to give birth without seeing a doctor at any time during pregnancy. This is in suburban Brisbane, not remote Australia. In some suburbs, between 10% and 20% of children arrived at school never having received a health check.

Logan Together is a “massive collaboration” effort between about 100 organisations – from schools to churches to local sporting groups to government health centres – to deliver the few things children need at different stages of early childhood so that they begin life with the same chances as any other Australian child. It’s not a lack of money, with an estimate of more than $200m a year spent in Logan on human and family services alone. Cox calls it a “spray and pray” approach.

“You spray human services out there, and you pray it’s made a difference,” Cox told a parliamentary inquiry on intergenerational welfare dependence last year.

“We know it doesn’t. We know those sorts of highly pixilated, atomised, random acts of kindness into the community are actually pretty good at resolving people’s immediate crisis issues. They are really lousy at stitching together into a system that grows kids up well.”

There are dozens of initiatives across Australia that have a similar approach – long-term, locally organised, working on solutions rather than responding to crisis. There’s Empowered Communities, an Indigenous-designed and led model that gives local communities greater authority about priorities for government spending and services. There’s Doveton in outer Melbourne, a world-leading, philanthropically funded experiment to overcome serious disadvantage through a purpose-built school integrating health and family services. There’s Tasmania’s Child and Family Centres, single entry points to universal, targeted and specialist services and supports from pregnancy to age 5.

Cox says Australia needs a radical change in how it delivers services to vulnerable people. The “large centralised systems we have to deliver health and education but also social services just cannot operate flexibly in a differentiated way at the local level.”

Governments of all hues see the need for change. “This is just good policy and notions of left and right mean absolutely nothing. [But] there is a very a long way to go. This is an enormous paradigm change for how the federation works in Australia, how social investment works.

“The message is that there is a scalable, knowable and plannable response to poverty … if we apply it to 50 to 100 communities we could make a really significant intergenerational change.

“It sort of seems like we’ve have given up big ideas like that in the modern world, given up on the idea that you can do something conclusive about levels of poverty in this country. What we’re trying to prove is that it’s just not true, we can take action. It’s not a pipe dream. It’s a decision.”

2. Set a target

In February, Canada got good news. Between 2015 and 2017, the poverty rate fell by more than 20%. That meant there were 825,000 fewer Canadians living in poverty. Put another way, Canada now has its lowest poverty rate in its modern history, 9.5%.

How did this country, in many ways similar to Australia, achieve this when in many wealthy countries poverty rates remain the same, or rise? It set a target.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau’s progressive government released the country’s first poverty reduction strategy last year. In November, it enshrined it into law. For the first time, Canada has an official poverty line based on the cost of a basket of goods and services people require to meet basic needs and achieve a modest standard of living. (Australia has no official measure of poverty, one reason why the discussion here can be so confusing.)

Canada has set targets – a 20% reduction in poverty by 2020 (it is ahead of that goal), and a 50% drop by 2030, relative to 2015 levels. It set up the independent National Advisory Council on Poverty to advise the government on its strategy, and track efforts through an annual report tabled in parliament.

Canada’s economy is doing well, creating jobs. The government has also taken specific steps to reduce poverty, including big increases to child benefits for low-income people with children.

New Zealand is another country setting targets. Last year, it passed the Child Poverty Reduction Act, which aims to halve child poverty in 10 years. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, says she wants New Zealand to “aspire to be the best place in the world to be a child”. New Zealand’s rate of child poverty is 23% when the cost of housing is taken into account, compared with more than 17% in Australia.

The chief executive of the Australian Council of Social Services, Cassandra Goldie, says targets can work to signal a national priority and to keep governments accountable.

“I won’t speak for First Nation views around the Close the Gap agenda, but the one thing it clearly has done is helped back up the voices of First Nations communities who say, ‘See? Things are not changing with the way you mob are doing it’ … It’s the persistent constant monitoring of some of those basic metrics for First Nation communities and we need that as a country.”

3. Fix housing

For a growing number of Australians, housing stress is acute. What’s happened, says Prof Hal Pawson, a housing policy and homelessness specialist at the University of NSW in Sydney, is intertwined with poverty.

While some welfare groups argue that “anyone” can become homeless if a few things go wrong, it’s not really true. It’s poverty that leads to homelessness.

Pawson was the lead author of Australia’s first comprehensive homelessness monitor in 2018, which found that after a decade when homelessness was fairly stable in Australia, it jumped by 14% in the five years to 2016, when 116,000 people were recorded as homeless.

The rise didn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s the result of lack of affordable housing, especially affordable rents. It is no surprise that the biggest rises in homelessness were in our big cities, where housing affordability has worsened most and where median rents are highest.

All this is linked to the rates of social benefits, especially the low rate of Newstart. It is exceptionally hard to rent privately on $277.85 a week, even with the maximum commonwealth rental assistance of $68 a week. Anglicare’s snapshot of advertised affordable rentals this year found just two listings across the country were affordable for the 500,000 single people on Newstart. Even for those on the minimum wage of $719.20 a week, fewer than 3% of rental listings were affordable.

Pawson says these issues are structural – they are not the individuals’ fault. If the causes are complex, there is one thing we could do now to ease housing stress and homelessness. We could increase rent assistance for those on very low incomes and social security benefits renting in the private market. For many experts and welfare groups, this is at as important as increasing Newstart.

The Grattan Institute’s report before the 18 May election argued for a 40% increase in maximum rent assistance – worth $1,410 for singles, at a cost of $1.2bn a year. Even that big rise would only provide the same real assistance to low-income earners as it did 15 years ago. Acoss argues for an immediate 30% increase and a review to ensure it meets people’s basic needs across the country.

There is broad agreement, too, that rent assistance for people on Newstart, or single parents payments or aged pensions, be indexed to changes in rents, so its value is maintained. For decades, it has been indexed to the CPI, which rents have far outstripped.

Where there is debate is around the need for increased direct government investment in social housing, where rent is below market rates. Many low-income people renting privately qualify for social housing but have little to no chance of securing a place.

As Grattan and others point out, our stock of social housing – about 400,000 dwellings – has barely grown in 20 years, while the population has increased by 33%. So the waiting lists keep growing, those in social housing stay for longer periods, and poorer people find it harder to pay for rents in the private market, many spending half their incomes on rent.

Research released last year from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Centre found that Australia needed to triple its stock of social housing over the next 20 years to cover the existing backlog of people in severe housing need, and to meet emerging needs. A quarter of a century of paltry investment meant a shortfall of 433,000 dwellings and the current construction rate – little more than 3,000 dwellings a year – would need to be expanded fivefold just to keep pace with population growth.

Pawson sees small signs of optimism. After the “scorched earth” approach of prime minister Tony Abbott – who saw a minimal role for the commonwealth in housing – it was Morrison as treasurer who championed federal involvement, setting up the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) in 2018, to channel lower-cost finance to not-for-profit community housing providers.

“Although NHFIC could be a game-changer, it can come into its own only when significant matching funds are offered by government,” Pawson says. “That’s what we will need to see by prime minister Morrison to finish the job started by treasurer Morrison.”

4. Think big

“Poverty isn’t a lack of character, it’s a lack of cash.”

One reason why Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s 2017 book, Utopia for Realists, caused such a stir was that it challenged the deep assumptions about how wealthy countries think about poverty, and argued for a radical rethink.

One of Bregman’s central proposals was a universal basic income (UBI), an idea that has attracted new interest since the global financial crisis as a possible way to counter rising inequality and persistent poverty in an era of insecure work.

In the UK, Labour has said it would trial a UBI if elected.

In Australia, the Greens support a trial but it has detractors, including among many of Australia’s welfare groups and poverty researchers. There are numerous UBI models but, in essence, it is a guaranteed basic income for all, enough to live on, without conditions or mean testing.

In his book, Bregman takes on the often-unspoken thinking about poverty. Anyone who wants to end it, he writes, “must inevitably face a few tough questions. Why are the poor more likely to commit crimes? Why are they more prone to obesity? Why do they use more alcohol and drugs? In short, why do the poor make so many dumb decisions?”

Jacqueline Phillips, director of policy and advocacy at Acoss, says our system is riddled with the notion that poverty is the fault of the poor.

“The community sector points to the structural drivers of poverty and disadvantage and others emphasise personal responsibility,” she says. “That’s partly why we’ve ended up with all these programs like income management which are all based on the assumption that individuals on welfare are somehow defective. There’s individual behaviour issues at play and policies are designed to change those behaviours rather than changing the structure.”

There is evidence that none of these assumptions is true and that poverty cannot be addressed without changing them. Bregman outlines the theories of Eldar Shafir, a psychologist at Princeton University, and his “science of scarcity”. Poverty consumes people to such an extent that they can focus only on the short term – how to pay the rent, how to pay the bills, buying a needed pair of shoes. There’s never a break, never the space to think about the longer term. Poor people “are not making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they are living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions”.

Instead of trying to fix behaviour, we could turn that around. One example is known as Housing First – that the answer to homelessness is not crisis accommodation but a home, without conditions.

Finland has proven it. Since the launch of Housing First in 2008, the number of long-term homeless people in Finland has fallen by more than 35% and rough sleeping has all but been eliminated. The idea is that people who are homeless don’t have to fix their problems before they get a home. Providing a home gives them the space and security to turn their lives around. It costs money, but over time, it saves money.

Bregman and others argue that the UBI could have the same impact. A four-year trial in the Canadian town of Dauphin in the 1970s ensured that no one fell below the poverty line. In practice, 30% of the towns’ residents got a cheque in the mail each month, no questions asked. When it was evaluated – years later – it was found that people did not work less. Hospitalisations had dropped. Domestic violence was down, and school performance improved.

Emma Dawson, the executive director of progressive thinktank Per Capita, is not a fan of a UBI. The cost would be huge to ensure people did not live below the poverty line, and Dawson believes Australia’s system of targeted assistance to those who need it most is the right structure. What she would like to see, though, is a “a targeted basic income, about making Newstart or youth allowance or disability payment a liveable payment without the massive conditionality that’s attached to it now”.

Acoss is open to the debate, and it does propose a root and branch review of the social security system. Phillips says its immediate priority is to secure a basic minimum income for those who need it.

Bregman’s book received both praise and criticism, but it was acknowledged that he was at least thinking beyond the next electoral cycle. He did identify that big changes rarely happen without utopian thinking. In a recent TED Talk, he said eliminating it was a decision countries could make, if they dared to think boldly enough.

“Imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all,” he said.

5. And yes, raise Newstart

Experts say – repeatedly – the single biggest thing we could do to reduce income poverty is to increase Newstart and youth allowance (the unemployment benefit for young adults) and index it to rises in average weekly earnings. That’s because the base single rate of $277.85 for Newstart is about $150 a week below the standard income poverty line and more than half its recipients are living in poverty.

Because Newstart is indexed to inflation rather than wages (as aged pensions are), it keeps falling relatively backwards, driving especially long-term recipients deeper into poverty.

Living costs for those on Newstart are much the same as for those on the aged or disability pension, but the gap between them keeps growing – the single aged pension rate, for instance, is $422 a week, or around $24,000 a year with allowances such as an energy supplement.

Acoss and other welfare groups argue that Newstart needs to be indexed to wage growth.. For instance, New Zealand in its latest budget made a historic change: indexing main benefits such as its job seekers payment to wage growth, not inflation. That change alone will see weekly increases of $NZ10 to $17 a week.

Goldie says welfare groups and experts in poverty reduction will keep pushing for a real rise in the payment – a minimum of $75 a week.

“It’s very important that we persist in highlighting where we are succeeding and where we are not,” Goldie says. “There are ideological views around the way you go about delivering better outcomes for people, but nobody’s going to say we want to increase the number people who don’t have enough food to eat.”

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The little-known visa project bringing highly skilled refugees to Australia

Saturday, 29 June 2019 by FBP International
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Five refugees and their families have arrived in Australia this year thanks to a humanitarian pilot project helping businesses fill skill shortages.

For Syrian man Derar Alkhateeb, touching down at Sydney airport four months ago is still a surreal memory.

He and his young family landed in Australia to a welcoming crowd.

The moment was a stark contrast to the adversity the refugee had faced since fleeing his war-torn country.

“It’s really unbelievable when I arrived in Australia,” he told SBS News.

“I couldn’t believe that it is real.”

Derar and his family arrive at Sydney airport.

Derar and his family arrive at Sydney airport.

The 34-year old is a qualified software engineer with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Damascus. But in the midst of Syria’s civil war his life was put on hold.

His home city of Daraa has been an epicentre for intense bombings during Syria’s civil conflict.

Derar was displaced for six years in Jordan with no work permit and was one of about 80,000 people living in the crowded Zaatari refugee camp.

For the first two years of his journey, he says a single blank piece of paper with his name on it was his only form of identification.

“If you don’t have ID you are stateless, nobody can accept you,” he said.

“My feeling it was mixed with fear and sad and hunger because I left my family and my friends.”

‘I will lose my career’

In Jordan, he met Tuqa, also a Syrian refugee and the woman who would become his wife.

The couple are now parents to three-year-old Hamza and nine-month-old Layan and adapting to life in Australia.

But Derar’s fears for his family from the past few years remain raw.

“No future for them, no future for me, [fear] I will lose my career, lose my skills,” he said.

 

Derar with his wife Tuqa and son Hamza in Jordan.

Derar with his wife Tuqa and son Hamza in Jordan.
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Derar, who now lives in the Western Sydney suburb of Bankstown, is one of five refugees and their families to enter Australia this year on skilled migrant visas under a humanitarian pilot project.

TBB – the project behind their recruitment – is a not-for-profit helping connect refugees with employers seeking to fill skill shortages.

Many refugee candidates are eligible for regular skilled visas, but others aren’t due to barriers including a lack of documentation.

Founder John Cameron said his organization is helping businesses recruit highly skilled but often forgotten workers.

“It’s a normal competitive recruitment process,” he said.

“This isn’t charity, this is employers filling skill gaps that they struggle to fill locally.”

Derar with his family at his home in Western Sydney's Bankstown.

Derar with his family at his home in Western Sydney’s Bankstown.
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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees puts the global number of displaced people at 70.8 million. TBB has registered more than 10,000 refugees as potential applicants over the past three years.

“We are talking about individuals here and amazing individuals that deserve a life,” Mr Cameron said.

“The refugees that we show to employers are very much assets rather than liabilities.”

We are talking about individuals here and amazing individuals that deserve a life.

– JOHN CAMERON, TBB

In Derar’s case, he has been recruited by Australian technology company IRESS, which has offices across the world.

TBB helped him to secure a temporary skill shortage visa to become a software engineer for the company.

“They brought me back to life, they renew the hope, they renew the hope to me, for better future, better life,” he said.

Derar Alkhateeb is working as a software engineer in Sydney for technology company IRESS.

Derar Alkhateeb is working as a software engineer in Sydney for technology company IRESS.
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IRESS Group General Counsel Peter Ferguson says the company has employed two workers under the recruitment pathway. He said it’s a win-win situation.

“It is done on merit so we get access to talent – talent that we urgently need,” he said.

“But it also improves the life of individuals like Derar and his family.”

He said their applicants go through the same recruiting process as anyone else, but acknowledged the humanitarian significance of hiring in this way.

“It’s not the exclusive driver of what we’ve done but it does add a dimension that is important to us,” he said.

“The industry in which we conduct our business is highly competitive and if we can find a different pool of talent that just makes good business sense.”

Derar Alkhateeb

Derar at work.
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TBB’ pilot program has received preliminary support from the Australian government.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Home Affairs said the project aligns with international efforts to expand “complementary pathways” for refugees.

“A small number of … supported cases are being considered within the Humanitarian Program as a pilot arrangement, which will be evaluated once completed,” the statement read.

The Department of Home Affairs said Australia provides a pathway for up to 1,000 skilled and employment-ready refugees already through its own Community Support Program (CSP).

Derar leaving Sydney airport with his family.

Derar leaving Sydney airport with his family.

Lisa Button is a Senior Project Manager for the Centre for Policy Development.

The think tank’s work includes extensive research into refugee economic participation in Australia.

She said skilled migration pathways for refugees help complement others being run on more traditional humanitarian grounds.

“It’s bridging that gap recognising that refugees … often have a lot of skills and capacities to bring to the Australian economy,” she said.

Ms Button said their research shows one of the biggest challenges for most refugees is finding sustainable work or starting a business.

“Business is important in this equation – but it is not the whole story,” she said.

“Government services, community groups they really need to part of the equation to provide that holistic support.”

His opportunity is one Derar believes more families like his deserve.

“I’m very grateful to all of those who helping me to change my life to dreaming again with bright future.”

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‘Too few cooks’: Chefs demand cuts to visa red tape

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 by FBP International
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For leading restaurants weighed down by restrictive and inefficient visa regulations, it may be a case of too few cooks spoil the broth.

Chef and restaurateur Luke Mangan said a shortage of chefs and waitstaff in the hospitality industry made businesses such as his reliant on foreign workers.

This included South Korean chef Carlos Byeon, who is among a quarter of the staff at the flagship Glass Brasserie on a temporary work visa.

But Mr Mangan said delays in the processing of temporary work visas under the present system were at odds with the rapid pace of his work. “When we need staff, we need them now – and not after three to six months,” he said.

The restaurateur is among several industry leaders who have welcomed the government’s pledge to cut bureaucratic red tape, and advanced their proposal for where it should start.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged on Monday to slash “excessive or outdated regulation” in a bid to encourage investment, and challenged businesses to submit their case for change.

For luxury hotel group Baillie Lodges, the difficulty of staffing kitchens – especially in remote locations like Lord Howe Island – was exacerbated by the rate at which visa laws and regulations change.

“It takes 12 months to understand the policy, and then it changes again,” said general manager Craig Bradbery.

The 457 temporary skilled work visa was abolished in March 2018 and partially replaced by the 482 visa, which covers roughly 200 fewer jobs than its predecessor.

Mr Bradbery said the change came with a host of additional fees and applications including a Skilling Australians Fund levy, which could reach $7200 per worker for businesses with an annual turnover exceeding $10 million.

Baillie Lodges hired migration agents to help navigate the process but found that it was nonetheless rare that they could fill a vacancy within six months, which was a problem for a service business.

“We operate in a fast-paced industry. It’s crucial that we have staff on the ground to serve our guests. Simple as that,” Mr Bradbery said.

Mentorship programs
Restaurateurs said the 485 visa for qualified graduates – on which Mr Byeon had come to Australia – helped fill the skill gap but it was insufficient.

Nino Zoccali, who owns the Restaurant Pendolino and La Rosa in Sydney, said he had been struggling to fill vacancies for restaurant managers and cooks.

Unlike chefs, who typically have seven years of experience including three years in a supervisory role, cooks and managers cannot apply for a medium-stream 482 visa to work in a metropolitan area. This means they cannot receive a four-year visa with a pathway to permanent residency.

Mr Zoccali said news of the restrictive visa policies had spread overseas and applications for cooking and managerial roles had plummeted.

“Serious people don’t pick up their lives for a two-year visa [with the opportunity for renewal] … We can’t fill these roles. I have senior management that are besides themselves,” he said.

Mr Mangan said work on reducing red tape was welcome but ultimately, there was no substitute for investing in local talent. This is why he had founded teaching and mentorship programs like the Inspired Series for hospitality students and the Appetite For Excellence program for young professionals.

“The bottom line is that we want to employ Australians first,” he said.

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Coalition abandons tougher English test for migrants

Tuesday, 18 June 2019 by FBP International
Coalition abandons tougher English test for migrants

This time last year, the Coalition was said to be considering a basic English test for all new permanent migrants amid concerns that by 2021, more than one million ­people in Australia could have ­little or no English skills:

The move to consider mandating English language tests beyond citizenship applicants and apply a basic conversational language requirement to all new permanent residents — of whom there are more than 200,000 a year — will be flagged today by Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Minister Alan Tudge as a move aimed at addressing concerns over social integration.

It follows warnings this year that Australia is at risk of drifting towards the European model of multiculturalism, where “parallel” communities have emerged.

An absence of English language skills among migrants and asylum-seekers has been cited in research as being one key driver of social fragmentation. Analysis of census data shows that, on current growth rates, Australia will be home to one million people who do not speak English or don’t speak English well by 2021…

Today, the Courier Mail reports that the Coalition has abandoned plans to tighten English language requirements for migrants seeking to become citizens:

About 1200 migrants who failed the test three times in the same year nevertheless became new Australians in 2018.

The Courier-Mail can now reveal that the Federal Government will not toughen up the test, which would have banned people taking the test for two years if they failed three times, required an English test and asked questions on “Australian values”…

It is understood the Government has no plans to proceed with the previously proposed changes.

Labor’s shadow Minister for Open Borders Home Affairs spokesperson, Kristina Keneally, congratulated “multicultural Australia” for “standing up” to the government:

The Productivity Commission’s Migrant Intake into Australia report explicitly noted “the fundamental importance of strong English-language skills for an immigrant’s integration and wellbeing in Australia” and explicitly recommended “significant reforms within the current system” and “‘raising the bar’ by shifting to a universal points test while tightening entry requirements relating to age, skills and English-language proficiency”.

In principle, it makes perfect sense for prospective migrants and citizens to be required to speak and read English. It is Australia’s national language and being able to understand and effectively communicate in English is central to integrating into the broader community, gaining employment, as well as to fulfil the responsibilities of residency.

That said, mandating English language proficiency is a second order issue to lowering Australia’s turbo-charged immigration intake to more sensible and sustainable levels.

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Impact of australian job market for international students finally revealed

Saturday, 08 June 2019 by FBP International
Impact of international students on Australian job market finally revealed - FBP International

While the Department of Immigration doesn’t track the work of international students, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has provided insights into their impact on the Australian job market for international students.

The impact of international students on the Australian job market has been revealed, following new research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

As many as 40,000 students from overseas rely on the hospitality sector for income, based on calculations from Australian National University migration researcher Henry Sherrell using the new ABS research released last week.

The research links employment data from the Census to addresses and biographic details of temporary visa holders to provide the first ever large scale insight into the working lives of visitors to Australia.

It shows more than one in three foreign students reported having jobs in the 2011 Census. Approximately 15 per cent of these were hospitality workers, 11 per cent were cleaners and laundry workers, 10 per cent were sales assistants and eight per cent were food preparation assistants.

The Department of Immigration does not track the work of international students. These students can work up to 20 hours per week during semester and unlimited hours during semester breaks.

“If you plonk those people (around universities) in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, that will have some effect on those labour markets,” Mr Sherrell said.

While it’s likely that some foreign students are “substituting” for young Australians in these jobs, Mr Sherrell said it was a complicated field of study and it’s too soon to call for reform.

“The hard thing about this stuff, is if you take backpackers and international students, they’re often working for non-wage incentives like residency, while Australians are much more driven, especially at a young age, by wage considerations,” he said.

“If you’re going to work at Coles, you’re likely not going to work at Coles for the rest of your life, so you’re not after enjoyment or career opportunities.”

The Productivity Commission reported last year that a “lack of fundamental data on employment patterns” of students was making it difficult to assess whether working rights should be limited, but it was likely that students were making an impact.

“Given the number of students and graduates involved and their geographic and demographic concentration, these effects are likely to significant,” it stated.

“This is particularly likely for student work rights since this group tends to undertake low and semiskilled work —where they are likely to be in competition with Australian youth and first job entrants.”

Immigration law lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Dr Joanna Howe, said a focus on the work arrangements for foreign students was necessary to better understand their impact on the labour market and to ensure Australia’s reputation in the international student market is not tarnished.

“Traditionally our approach has been to see international students as purely here as a study purpose,” she said.

“But increasingly, through the 7-Eleven scandal, through the horticulture 4 Corners expose, through some of the Fairfax media investigations, we’re realising that international students have a strong need to work and a strong desire to work.

“We’re realising that their work impact is quite significant.”

Australia’s export education industry is worth around $20 billion a year.

Manling Zhu, from China, studies law and commerce at the Australian National University in Canberra and works part-time as a tutor. She said she would reconsider her decision to study in Australia if there were more restrictions on work for students.

“I come to Australia to study in an English-speaking environment,” she said.

“Working is part of an important aspect of my life here, and by working in Australia I can actually mingle in society and get better practice with my English.”

Fellow ANU student Anson Wong, from Hong Kong, said being able to work in Australia was very attractive for students coming from overseas.

“I would reconsider my choice, because (work restriction) is quite an inference,” he said.

“There may be some negative inference to how international students here feel about the whole working system.”

But for other ANU students, like Yan Gu, from China, they would still be drawn to Australia to study even if working rights were restricted.

“I come to Australia because I want to get a better education,” he said.

“My family’s supporting me financially and I would like to go back to China afterwards. I wouldn’t come here to find a job.”

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has indicated he will be condensing the list of eligible occupations on the 457 temporary foreign worker visa to prioritise jobs for Australians, but neither he or Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has flagged any plans to reform students’ work regulations.

Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said the government supports international students having the choice to work, including to gain professional and cultural experience and to improve their English language skills.

“The student visa work settings are part of our global competitiveness, especially to attract high quality students with appropriate post study work arrangements,” he said.

The Productivity Commission urged the government in September to issue a public inquiry into the effects of work rights for international students.

The government established the Migrant Workers’ Taskforce in October to focus on worker exploitation, but its scope does not extend to the effect of students on the labour market.

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Single Australian-visa hopefuls are eagerly awaiting the new points system

Thursday, 06 June 2019 by FBP International
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The point system for an Australian visa will change from November this year. The new point system offers extra points to singles. Many singles are looking forward to this change.

S. Vijay Kumar is ready to file his application for Australian Permanent Residency visa.

A film editor by profession, Kumar has got his educational qualification assessed by VETASSESS, Australia’s leading vocational education and training (VET) skills assessment provider. But he is going to wait till November.

“Everything is set, but I am waiting for November. I will get extra 10 points for being single, and that will increase my score,” says Kumar.

A student at Macquarie University, Vijay Kumar is one of the many applicants who are looking forward to the 10-point-rule that will come into effect from November 2019.

In April this year, the immigration department announced some changes to the point system. These changes will come in effect from 16 November 2019.

According to the new rule, applicants who do not have a spouse or de facto partner will get 10 points.

“Points are awarded for attributes that are linked with the applicant’s ability to make the greatest economic contribution, as the key purpose of the skilled migration program is to maximize the economic benefits of migration to Australia,” the legislation reads.

The changes are to ensure more skilled people migrate to Australia, says immigration expert Rohit Mohan.

“New system, coming in effect from November, offers ten extra points for applicants who do not have a spouse or partner.

“The idea is to bring more skilled migrants and discourage unskilled partners who come with married skilled migrants.

“Married invitees with kids fill more places with non-skilled migrants and leave lesser places for skilled migrants,” says Mr Mohan.

The amendments to the point system follow the recommendations made by the Productivity Commission.

According to the commission, around 50 per cent of Australia’s permanent skill intake is secondary applicants, many of whom have limited skills.

In its 2016 report, the Productivity Commission recommended that the points system be amended so that secondary applicants with skills and other desirable employment-related characteristics contribute significantly to the points score of the primary applicant.

Many singles are waiting for the new points system to kick in to gain these ten extra points.

Dilip Kumar, an Australian visa-hopeful says these extra points will help him in a big way.

‘My IELTS score is not very high, so I am counting on the extra points,’ says Dilip who is an auto mechanic in Karnataka and preparing his application for an Australian visa.

Mr Mohan says many of his clients are waiting for November.

“People have put their marriage on hold to claim these extra points. Earlier people would get married before applying to claim five extra points on behalf of their partners. Now we can see the opposite trend.”

Applicants who have a skilled spouse or partner will also get ten extra points in the new system.

They will also get five points if their spouse or de facto partner have competent English.

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Visa Application Fee Increases 2019

Thursday, 06 June 2019 by FBP International
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From 1 July 2019, there will be an increase in visa application charges

The Department of Home Affairs has announced that a 5.4 percent Visa Application Charges (VAC) increase in fees will apply to applications made on or after 1 July 2019 on most visa subclasses. 

Visa Type Current Fee From 1 July 2019
Student $575 $606
General Skilled Migration $3,755 $3,958
Graduate Temporary Subclass 485 $1,535 $1,618
Partner $7,160 $7,547
Parent (Contributory) first instalment $340 to $3,855 $358 to $4,063
TSS – STSOL $1,175 $1,238
TSS – MLTSSL $2,455 $2,587
ENS/RSMS $3,755 $3,958
Business Migration $4,975 $4,975
Significant Investor Visa (SIV) $7,310 $7,705

The Second Visa Application charge for the Contributory Parent visa (143 visa) will remain the same. The subclass 600 Visitor visa fee will also not be affected by the July increases.

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Good news for South Africans interested in emigrating to Australia

Saturday, 25 May 2019 by FBP International
Good news for South Africans interested in emigrating to Australia - FBP International

The Australian government will be launching two new skilled regional visa routes this year, opening the door to more South Africans who want to make the move.

According to Sable International’s Sam Hopwood, there are currently over 600 eligible occupations available to migrants willing to work in regional Australia.

These occupations are consistent with skills needed in regional areas, including agricultural, trade and professional occupations, he said.

“Once the new regional visas are introduced later this year, skilled migration visas sponsored by regional employers or state and territory governments will receive priority processing.

“These visas allow you to bring your family with you, where they’ll enjoy the same rights as you.”

‘Regional Australia’

Hopwood explained that the Australian government currently defines regional Australia by a postcode listing.

“From November this year, regional Australia will be defined as all of Australia except for the metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Perth,” he said.

“The new definition will form single continuous borders, as defined by postcodes, around these metropolitan areas.

“Regional Australia is home to 8.8 million Aussies and contributes to one-third of the country’s national output.”

How to move to Australia on a skilled migration visa

From November 2019, the Australian government will be introducing the following visas to help address skill shortages in regional areas.

They also aim to encourage a more balanced settlement of Australia’s skilled migrant intake, Hopwood said.


Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491)

This is a points-based visa for people who want to live and work in designated regional areas in Australia.

To qualify for this visa, you must have obtained sponsorship from an eligible relative or state or territory government, be under the age of 45 and competent in English.

This Skilled Work Regional visa will allow you to live and work in Australia for up to five years.

You can bring your family with you and leave and enter Australia as often as you like while your visa is valid.

This visa will replace the Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489), which is quite popular with skilled workers who wish to move to regional Australia. This change also introduces the new points system for this visa.

Points will be awarded as follows:

  • 10 points for having a skilled spouse/defacto partner;
  • 15 points if you’re nominated by a state or territory, or sponsored by a family member that resides in regional Australia;
  • 10 points if you have certain science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) qualifications;
  • 10 points if you do not have a spouse/defacto partner;
  • 5 points if you have a spouse/defacto partner who meets the English language requirement.

After three years of holding the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa and meeting the requirements, you can apply for a permanent residence visa.


Skilled Employer-Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 494)

This visa will replace the current subclass 187 visa. It allows skilled workers, who are nominated by an employer, to live and work in Australia permanently.

To be eligible for this visa you must:

  • Be nominated by an Australian employer;
  • Work for your nominating employer in regional Australia;
  • Have an occupation on the relevant list of eligible skilled occupations;
  • Meet the English language requirement.

Permanent Residence Skilled Regional visa (subclass 191)

The new permanent residence visa is available to skilled migrants that have lived and worked in Australia for three years on one of the two new provisional regional visas. To qualify for this visa and permanent residence in Australia, you must:

  • Have held a valid regional provisional visa for at least three years prior to making your application;
  • Earned a minimum income for three years on a valid regional provisional visa;
  • Meet the requirements of the regional provisional visa.

“This visa will only be open for applications from 16 November 2022,” said Hopwood.

“This is because applicants will need to have held one of the new regional provisional visas for three years before they can be eligible to apply.”

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