When people are still immersed in a festival atmosphere here in China, it is depressed to most of the visa applicants to Australia. Feb 8th might probably be the most dreary day for all the applicants as Australia government abolished a policy that favors the applicants whose nominated occupation is on the MODL, a list of occupations that is in urgent demand in Australia. Now I am not eligible to apply for the visa there.
As the economic downturn hit the western world, most of the developed countries have tightened their own immigration policies. Canada issued new policy in the very beginning of the 2008 to curb the immigration. However, Australia did pretty well during financial crisis since it’s main business partner is China. China’s fast economic growth calls for enormous energy source, while Australia is abundant in coal, petrol and etc, which guarantees the continous prosperity during the crisis. It is said that this sudden policy change is due to the fact that Australia intends to attract more professionals like enginners and doctors instead of work force like hairdressers or cook. New policies will be realeased in the middle of the year.
As an engineer myself, it seems my worries are quite redundant, however I don’t have much work experience and i certainly don’t wanna it be a disadvantage when comes to point testing. There is still something i could do, improving my english writing skills to get a 7 in IELTS. I might start writing essays on this blog… Hope it all work out within the year.
