{"id":1742,"date":"2017-08-10T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:36:24","slug":"immigration-to-oz-to-fall-after-visa-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/immigration-to-oz-to-fall-after-visa-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration to Oz to fall after visa curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra,<br \/>\nImmigration to Australia will dramatically drop after a crackdown on skilled migrant visas, a report said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in April abolished and replaced the temporary work visa 457 that allowed businesses to employ migrants with expertise in areas as there was a shortfall among Australian workers, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>About 200,000 migrants arrive in Australia each year but Bob Birrell from the Australian Population Research Institute said the figure would fall by tens of thousands after the 457 change.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new system, migrant workers would need two years of relevant experience in the field before coming to Australia, while employers would be forced to pay training levies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business community has had a free run for over a decade and they\u2019ve been able to bring in or sponsor as many workers as they wanted,\u201d Birrell said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra, Immigration to Australia will dramatically drop after a crackdown on skilled migrant visas, a report said on Wednesday. The Australian government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in April abolished and replaced the temporary work visa 457 that allowed businesses to employ migrants with expertise in areas as there was a shortfall among Australian [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}