Melbourne, May 7: The Andrews Government is supporting the welfare of 175,000 international students with funding for four new projects through the $4 million International Student Welfare Grants program. Together, the projects will receive $129,000 and will focus on enhancing the welfare and support available to international students in Victoria.Read More →
Melbourne, May 5: The 2016-17 federal budget, proposes to test changes to visa arrangements in key markets in a bid to boost visitor and investor numbers. The federal government proposes to include a user-pays visa fast-track service for nationals from India and the United Arab Emirates, and a three-year multipleRead More →
Melbourne, May 2: A 7-Eleven operator in Sydney has been penalised a record $214,200 for deliberately short-changing two migrant employees and falsifying records, following legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Harmandeep Singh Sarkaria – who owns and operates the 7-Eleven fuel outlet at 354 Flushcombe Road in Blacktown –Read More →
Mumbai, April 23: After a long struggle of 38 years, a 90-year-old Spanish Jesuit priest — who has lived and worked in the country for 67 years — was finally granted Indian citizenship here this week. Mumbai Suburban district collector Shekhar Channe awarded the Certificate of Naturalisation to Fr. GussiRead More →
Sydney, April 21: At least 60 percent of international students who work in Sydney are being paid below the federally mandated minimum wage of $17.29 per hour, according to a University of Sydney Business School survey. When measured against applicable award rates, the survey found that an even greater numberRead More →
International Students targeted for ghost ‘essay writing’ services Melbourne, April 17: The University of Melbourne is in the midst of trialling a new system to help stamp-out instances of contract cheating. The trial focuses on Cadmus, an online editing and authentication system designed and developed within the University, in collaborationRead More →
Melbourne: Some recent Indian nationals arriving in Australia and migrants to Australia, have received fraudulent calls from unauthorised persons about their Australian visa / immigration status. “At times the callers have even spoofed the phone numbers allotted to the High Commission of India, Canberra or its Consulates in Sydney, Melbourne,Read More →
The similarities between the views of Donald Trump, the Republican Party hopeful in the US presidential campaign, and the BJP hawks in India are too obvious to be ignored. Amulya Ganguly in Political Circus draws on those similarities Like all those belonging to the ultra-right, their primary animus is againstRead More →
February 25, 2016: An international student Harjaspreet Singh had been refused a Skilled (Provisional) (Class VC) subclass 485 visa on 13 June 2012 because of a failure to satisfy cl 4020(1). Failure to satisfy cl 4020(1) simply means he had provided information with his application for the Visa which wasRead More →
This is a very strange story of an Indian International student family who came to Australia some years ago to make a new life for themselves. But the sponsor Grandpa says he never sponsored. Amandeep Kaur Sandhu came to Australia as an international student along with her husband Kanwaldeep SinghRead More →