A new report based on a survey would be released very soon by the Australian International Education Conference, Sydney, which states that studying in Australia is one of the safest places for Indian students to pursue their further education abroad. The survey was carried out by IDP Education, a student recruitment firm, interviewing about 1130 Indian graduates and students wishing to study abroad.  26 percent of the sample students ranked studying in Australia as the safest options among provided. Australia was also ranked top in terms of government policies in place to protect international students, immigration laws and ease of application for an Australian visa, with 19 per cent of the votes from Indian students. The US came second in this category, followed closely by the UK, Canada and New Zealand.

Inspite of the news flashing across the globe about ‘racial attacks on Indian students’ many Indian students still believe that Australia is the safest destination to study abroad. Pursuing higher education in Australia is quite popular among Indian students who have dreams of fetching a top-quality education, while gaining valuable language and cultural knowledge.  The government of Australia has been working hard to keep a check on such racial attacks and ensure safety to foreign students coming from India to study in Australia. Speaking on the same, a spokesperson for IDP Education said, “these results are very encouraging in the light of recent challenges to Australia’s reputation as a quality, safe and good value provider of education to Indian students.” Chris Evans, the Australian immigration Minister also welcomed the results of the survey as he laid out new plans to attract new students for visa applications.

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We have been reading about the Canadian Economy and the resistance it showed to the economic crisis. Throughout the past few months, news has been flashing on internet about the speedy recovery Canada has been making with the downturns of recession. Compared to the economies of many countries around the world, the economy of Canada is less affected by recession and it still remains the perfect place to do business with its stable banking system and its much easier now to start a business in Canada as the economy moves out of the recession. The immigrant population is also one of the biggest key to the success of the growth of the country.

‘Bank of Canada’ also declared recently that the recession was over after surveying the status of many Canadian banks. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Canada also grew in June for the first time in 11 months, reported Statistics Canada (StatsCan). StatsCan recently reported that in August, the private sector created more than 27,000 jobs, an unexpected growth in the job market. Canada’s major banks are reporting profits in the third quarter of 2009, another sign that the economy is recovering. In addition, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC), the federal housing agency, said that the housing market is expected to rebound over the last few months of 2009.

Some analysts have been picturing it as a positive sign believing that Canada is not only recovering from the economic slump which has affected most nations, but they also believe that Canada’s economy is expected to grow. “The upturn in June GDP, the swift snapback in housing amid rebounding consumer confidence, and a stabilizing U.S. economy all suggest that Canada’s recession is indeed ending,” said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, a leading financial services provider.

New Immigrants in Canada have boosted the housing market. In last eight years, the inflow of immigrants in Canada is responsible for most of the housing sales in the Greater Toronto Area. As reported by Scotia bank, a major Canadian financial institution, found that newcomers are making a faster transition from renting homes to owning homes than they did in the past. “Given Canada’s aging population and low fertility rates, longer term household formation and housing needs will be largely determined by immigration,” Adrienne Warren, the author of the report, said. Inspite of that, the skills and experiences of the immigrant is becoming increasingly valuable to the Canadian economy.

Addressing to the same, Mr. Gordon Nixon and Dominic D’Alessandro of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council said, “Immigrants bring skills, including language and cultural abilities, knowledge and networks that can help us to reach out to emerging economic giants such as China and India, as well as emerging markets at home – particularly at a time when the U.S. economy remains weak and we need to be looking to expand our trade and cultural relationships even more”.

Due to the following, many employers and institutions in Canada are now taking various majors to ensure that the new immigrants fully adjust to the country’s labour market. Various new initiatives have been introduced for the immigrants like providing them with mentorship programs, language instruction services, increasing their networking requirements etc.
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There is good news for people who have applied for an Australian visa under skilled immigration category with a pending status. Chris Evans, the Australian Immigration Minister announced plans to speed up the visa applications that have been in queue.  Australian Immigration has also established a new advisory service to help in establishing people’s immigration status as quickly as possible. The following plans of forming up a council of immigration services and status resolution were revealed yesterday by the Australian immigration Minister.

The council is purely set to provide guidance and advice on the rollout of the Community Status Resolution Service. The responsibility of the council is set to take over the duties of Detention Advisory Group and will meet initially on 21st of this month to decide the major immigration issues that will be dealt immediately.

Speaking on the same, Evans stated that the council will help Australian immigration officials to process Australian visa applications quickly. He said, “the council will provide independent advice on policies, services and programmes to achieve timely, fair and effective resolution of immigration status for people seeking asylum or other migration outcomes in Australia.”  He further added that, “the government’s focus is on resolving the immigration status of people quickly and fairly while ensuring they are treated humanely and with dignity and respect.” The provision of a quick decision on applications to live in Australia is essential for Australia since many cases are pending and Australia still requires a lot of skilled immigrants in its work forces.

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Although after so much of skilled immigration to South Australia, the positions under skilled immigration programmes are still lying vacant in Adelaide. It has been observed that people who are taking immigration under state sponsorship to Adelaide are first arriving in Adelaide on those visas and then they are relocating to other metropolitan places like Melbourne or Sydney. In order to grow in line with forecasted labour demands, South Australia depends heavily on immigrant workers but Business analysts have raised concerns that not enough are settling in the state after arriving in Australia on their work visas.  Many people are obtaining their work permits or skilled immigration for Australia under regional categories as they are easier to obtain. After acquiring a permit, people are leaving for bigger and better states to look out for more opportunities.

A recent study by PKF Australia and Access Economics, states that 18,500 people were settled in South Australia in 2008, 16,000 of those were from overseas and on an Australian visa. This correlates to roughly 86.5% of the newly settled citizens coming from overseas. Many of these immigrants have moved out of Adelaide to bigger and better cities leaving Adelaide’s population of skilled workers less than sufficient to fill up the vacant positions. The South Australian business leaders or employers are concerned that Australian immigration is seeing a trend of migrants that arrive in Adelaide but after a short period of time, they choose to move to other larger Australian cities, such as Melbourne or Sydney. This trend has left South Australia lacking of the necessary skilled professionals.

Speaking about the same, the National Chairman of Enterprise Advisers, Mr. Chris Allen said, “Skilled migrants are a necessary and important contribution to Australia’s economy and growth. Because highly skilled migrants in Australia earn a relatively high income in relation to the size they represent, in the overall workforce, they spend more of their income, and spending, creates demand for more workers.”  He further quoted that “Put in Lehman’s terms more immigration to Adelaide equals more customers, and also more jobs.”

Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan said SA was an attractive starting point for international migrants but many were unable to get a job and were forced to move interstate for work and to secure permanent residency. Mr Vaughan emphasised the need for employers to take on qualified graduates from overseas. “The future of this state will be based on skilled migrants from other cultures who are going to settle in SA looking for job opportunities, careers, advancement and reward,” he said. “If we don’t provide those things that precious commodity will go elsewhere.”

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What would look like a famous party ‘stunt’ is even more intriguing than that. To get maximum number of votes in upcoming UK elections (2010), the Conservative Party mentioned in its election plans that if they are the winning party in 2010 elections, they would be increasing the intake of skilled UK migration to attract many high potential immigrants to live and work in the UK. Speaking on the same Mr. Damian Green, the shadow minister stated, “We want to attract more than our fair share of the brightest and the best” at the party’s annual conference in Manchester about UK Immigration. In other words, the conservatives would launch a drive to get more highly qualified migrants to come to the UK, as quoted by the shadow minister Damian Green.

Mr. Green further explained that the party also wants to achieve a similar system for UK immigration in comparison to the Australian immigration system. In Australia, there is a pre-provided list of the most demanded skilled occupations of which the country is in dire needs and also the country allows immigrants to migrate to Australia based on those professions. Apart from that Australia also has appropriate measures to attract the most highly skilled professional from other countries. The same strategy would be introduced to the UK Visa systems by the Conservative party.

The minister further argued that in order to maintain its position as a global trading nation, UK would need to attract more skilled and qualified professionals and entrepreneurs to work in the country as compared to their rival economies like Japan or USA. He stated that the UK was “really lucky as a country” that the influx of immigrants moving to this country with UK visas from Eastern Europe over the past few years have been “hard working and respectable.” However, he also said,  “it was important that British people feel that their community services are not being threatened by increasing UK immigration and that newcomers can settle well into their new communities”. He said Britain was a global trading nation and it was vital for future prosperity to attract more entrepreneurs and highly qualified graduates to the UK.

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According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report Rankings, Australia is the second best place to live in the whole world as it offers a quality lifestyle. Norway is ranked as the first best place with excellent quality of life. The ranking for best life by UNDP, Human Development Report, was done keeping basic factors in mind like -life expectancy, education and wealth as these factors affect the basic life experienced by the people of a country.  By the present UNDP report, Australia is the second best country to offer a great quality of life and such ranking would encourage the new aspirants to immigrate to Australia even more. The present ranking is purely based on the country’s strong performance and is hence indexed in top listing.
Based on the data over the past year, the average life expectancy in Australia has increased by three to four months besides the average income of people rose by 4 percent. These figures are set aside keeping in mind the impact of recession on people living in Australia and it illustrates the fact that Australians have survived the economic slump and dealt with it quite nicely. The report suggests that countries that offer a high quality of life attract more migrants, with thousands of people moving to Australia each year on work visas and working holiday visas. It states, ”most migration, internal and international, reap gains in the form of higher incomes, better access to education and health, and improved prospects for their children.” Along with that, Canada was ranked 4th and USA stood as the 13th country which offered best quality of life. The report was based on the data taken from 182 countries overall.  Niger, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone scored worst in terms of human development and the poorest performing region was sub-Saharan Africa, where states are afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS.

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As reported by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), world market expects to see a surprise growth of Canadian economy which would outperform other countries in the developed nations. The economic growth of Canadian economy is however expected to be limited until 2011 as the recession is expected to end by then and it is forecasted that the economy of other countries would also reach its full swing. The fact however could be attributed to the increase in stimulus spending of $40 Billion. The report also continued to mention that Canada was not hit as hard as other developed nations due to recession. Canada’s performance during the recession times is due to the country’s resilience of the market sectors like housing etc and its strength in the banking system.
By the end of September, The Bank of Canada and the organization for economic Co-operation and Development declared that they have witnessed signs of recovery in the Canadian economy as well as some other economies of the world. As reported by CIBC, it is expected that Canada’s economy would grow at a rate of two percent in 2010, which is stronger than the growth rate which is expected of the US Economy and European Countries as well.
Speaking on the same, the CIBC Chief Economist, Avery Shenfeld stressed that ‘the injection of stimulus dollars’ into the world’s economies have had a lot to do with this forecasted turn around and subsequent growth. “On some dimensions, Canada stands out from its peers, largely because the financial shock to the household, government and banking sectors was less dramatic than in the U.S. or some parts of Europe,” notes Mr. Shenfeld. “But as we saw last year, no country is an island, and after a decent finish to 2009, Canada could be waiting another year for truly robust growth.”
It is quite noticeable as some countries completely shut down immigration, with the boom in the economy Canada is bound to meet the immigration standard requirements for the smooth running of economy. As Canadian financial system would flourish, more and more opportunities will open up for its local residents and people who dream to immigrate to Canada on various criteria. Many occupations are going to add in the Federal Skilled Worker programme for immigration to Canada.

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According to the latest ANZ jobs survey, the job advertisements in local newspapers and on internet peaked by 4.4% in September, the fastest rate since November 2007. The job advertisements on internet and on papers were 8.7% higher than July. Compared to all, the rate was over all lower than this year.

The survey figures revealed that the number of job ads in major metropolitan newspapers jumped 3.7%, following a 5.5% rise in August, to a weekly average of 8,929. Meanwhile, internet job ads climbed 4.5% in a second consecutive month of growth to a weekly average of 127,141.

Addressing to the same, ANZ acting chief economist Warren Hogan said in a statement, “These data provide the best evidence we have received to date that the labour market (and the economy more generally) is entering an early recovery phase following this downturn.  Further he added, “Australian economic activity has been remarkably resilient in recent months, particularly in some of our largest employing industries such as retail trade, health services, government and construction.”

The employment requirement data also sheds some insight on the present job scenario in Australia. The data raises speculation as the Reserve Bank of Australia was to raise interest rates at a policy meeting, with Hogan since the figures also give hope for unemployment figures. Speaking on which he said, “Today’s numbers confirm our expectation that the pace of decline in employment will not be as severe as envisaged six months ago”. “We expect the Australian unemployment rate to peak at around 7.25% in mid-2010.”

Meanwhile, the latest Olivier Job Index found the number of jobs advertised in Australia rose 3.58% in August. Full-time work was up 3.4% and part-time work up 5.3% in the last month, the report found. With the new jobs opening up in the market at a higher speed, the Australian govt is encouraged to support skilled immigration. The regional areas of Australia still need to be developed while the metropolitan areas like Melbourne and Sydney witnesses’ higher unemployment ratio. As more and more jobs lie vacant, Australia would need people from around the globe who could fill in the spots.

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Many parts of Northern India witnessed a huge rush of student visa applications following the implementation of study visa rules changing for UK. The UK visa application centre in Chandigarh, India, was overrun with people earlier this week. The crowd had to be dispersed with the help of local police forces as the UK visa application centre in Jalandhar was over crowded. All the applicants were hoping to obtain their visas before the changes to the UK visa regulations that were to be introduced on 1st October 2009.

The UK border agency applied certain changes for applications to the student visa category. The new tighter restrictions affect those applying for visas under Tier 4 of the UK points based system. It also largely impact people who are hoping to gain a student visa to allow them to study in the UK.  Before October 1st, there were not such strict requirements for an applicant to apply for a student visa in terms of ‘declaration of finances’. The tighter restrictions require student visa applicants submitted from outside the UK to show they have funds for fees and maintenance in their banks for a 28 day period within a month of making their application. However, those who applied before 01 October only had to show they had the funds on the day they applied.

The visa application centres witnessed a huge rush in Punjab and Haryana region.
Many of those seeking visas in the rush failed as the counter at the Visa Facilitation Services centre closed early due to a large crowd of people who had come from all over the region. As reported by a visa seeker about desperation among the applicants, “there is no discipline here. Nobody is giving us any information. The police are also baton charging us. First police asked us to sit, then after about ten minutes, they started beating us. One boy started bleeding after being hit in the leg.”

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A recent survey depicted that people who are working in Canada are happy with their jobs. According to a poll by the famous job search engine, monster.ca, commissioned by the Labour Day 46% of people who work in Canada feel that they have more job security today than they did at the same time last year. Canadian workers in public sector felt the most secure at 53% compared with 42% of private sector.

The poll also showed that 88% of people working in Canadian firms were content with their jobs. These Canadian workers were also satisfied with their current employment situation. To a surprise Canadian workers living in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were the most secure with their jobs as compared to the rest of the country.

The unemployment rate in Canada at present is about 8.6% with many signs of its emerging from recession. Inspite the recession and economic turmoil, Canada has still given opportunities to skilled migrants who applied for Canadian visas and work permits. The strategy of which is still paying off.

The results of the survey were out standing. It was also found that 33% of people thought job security with their institutions was the top perk. Besides 31% of people said that best thing was that they could keep a balance between their work and personal life in their present jobs.

The survey was conducted by the Harris-Decima polling company on behalf of Monster.ca. “Although we’ve seen daily reports of layoffs and plant closures, Canadians are feeling pretty good about how they make a living,” said Peter Gilfillan, general manager of Monster Canada. “Anxiety levels seem to be going down, and that’s really encouraging.”

Apart from holding polls and surveys, Canada is now trying to attract investors and foreign skilled workers to come and live in Canada as the country is short of skilled immigrants. Canada offers a bundle of opportunities to foreign immigrants who come to Canada in a hope to start a new life.
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