TeeTMI Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) The Department of Home Affairs have released their Annual Report for the migration year 2017-18. As expected following the recent changes in policies and increase in processing times we have seen a reduction (over 20,000) in the number of permanent residence visas issued. The skilled visa stream has seen are reduction in places provided over the last two years, 12,468 less than the 2016-17 migration year and 17,451 form the year before that. Similarly, a reduction in the number of places available to Families (mainly Partner and Parent visas), approximately 8,488 less than the previous migration year and 9,668 from the 2015-16 migration year. Given that the government placed a hold on Citizenship applications for those with less than 4 years permanent residence for a period of time, as is to be expected, there was a significant drop, 57,188, in Australian Citizenship conferrals. NB the government did not succeed in getting the law changed and so reverted to the old citizenship requirements (4 years of which 1 year must be as a permanent resident), this has caused a backlog in Citizenship application processing. The Department of Home Affairs state that a total of 8,694,048 temporary visas were issued (although in the table below their figures add up to more than this?), of which 64,470 were temporary skilled visas. Edited October 22, 2018 by TeeTMI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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