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[Indians are expected to rush to apply for a recently added Australian permanent visa as a result of Donald Trump imposing a US$100,000 annual fee for high-skilled H-1B visas]

https://www.noticer.news/indians-turn-to-australia-trump-h1b-fee/

Indians are expected to rush to apply for a recently added Australian permanent visa as a result of Donald Trump imposing a US$100,000 annual fee for high-skilled H-1B visas

The US president said on Friday he was raising the fee, which is now just US$215, in an effort to make tech companies hire local workers instead of immigrants, and the increase is set to disproportionately affect Indians, who make up 71% of approved visas. Chinese are next on 11.7.

The announcement sparked panic in India, where prices for flights to the US doubled as visa holders rushed to return before the September 21 deadline, while tech firms like Amazon (the top H-1B recipient with more than 10,000 a year) and Microsoft warned employees with H-1Bs not to leave the US. The White House has since clarified that the fee would only apply to new applicants.

The fee hike has also led to predictions that India will benefit from retaining its most skilled workers, and according to local Indian media outlet The Australia Today the Albanese government's National Innovation Visa (NIV) is also likely to be seen as an attractive alternative to the H-1B.

The permanent visa, introduced in December last year, requires applicants to have an "internationally recognised record of exceptional and outstanding achievement" in a profession, academia and research, the arts or sport.

The NIV comes with permanent residency, work and study rights, Medicare enrolment, sponsorship of relatives, and, when eligible, application for Australian citizenship, and costs just under $5,000.

"Unlike the increasingly prohibitive H-1B, the NIV prioritises high-calibre talent and leadership and actively encourages those who can make measurable contributions to Australia's future prosperity," academic and The Australia Today co-founder Amit Sarwal wrote on Saturday.

"The timing could not be better. India has a vast pool of highly skilled professionals accustomed to working in technology, healthcare, and research-intensive sectors.

Meanwhile, Australia's welcoming immigration framework for top-tier talent and its stable, high-quality ecosystem for research and innovation make it an attractive alternative for those now facing prohibitive fees and uncertainty in the US."

The H-1B changes come after it was revealed that Australia's permanent migration program, which is capped at 185,000 a year, was bringing in far fewer offshore permanent migrants than expected – just 12% of the intake in the 2023-24 financial year.

The Albanese government and the previous Coalition government have signed three major deals with India since 2022 that have contributed to record levels of Indian immigrants arriving in Australia.

The Indian-born population of Australia was 916,330 as of June 30 last year, up from 95,000 in 2001, according to the latest official estimates, in addition to another 200,971 "second-generation migrants" born in Australia with Indian ancestry, and 113,947 "secondary migrants" who were born in other countries but have Indian ancestry.

This puts the Indian diaspora at about 1.23 million, and the Indian-born population is expected to hit 1.1 million in 2026 as high immigration levels continue, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

  We are well and truely getting  "Curried away"! Expect your workforce to get full of these stinky shonks! Expect to compete with them in every way possible.

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$25m for the protests in Vic! Look at what the Coons and Goat rooter fans cost us!
The Jews went over kill on genociding the Arabs so we pay for protests.

[An aboriginal man who fractured a baby's skull during a home invasion in Alice Springs will not serve any jail time for the crime]

https://www.noticer.news/teen-spared-jail-baby-home-invasion-alice-springs/

An aboriginal man who fractured a baby's skull during a home invasion in Alice Springs will not serve any jail time for the crime

The 18-year-old, who cannot be named as he was a minor at the time, in August pleaded guilty to to aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, unlawfully causing serious harm, theft, and aggravated assault over the horrific December 2024 attack.

The man and his co-offender, who were 16 and 17 and on bail for violent offending, broke into the home of the Siguenza family in Larapinta to steal alcohol when he hit mother Nicole with a metal fridge handle, which then rebounded onto the head of baby Antonia.

The two-month old was flown to Adelaide for urgent medical treatment for a skull fracture, which has left her needing to take anti-epilepsy medication, NT News reported.

In sentencing on Tuesday Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Sonia Brownhill told the court Antonia "had swelling to her forehead, bruising and a graze 8 to 10 centimetres in length".

"A CT scan indicated a bruise on her brain with a small amount of blood in the space between the brain and the brain membrane," she said.

"Ultrasounds revealed bruising on one side of the brain and bleeding on both sides of the brain and in the space between the brain and surrounding tissue.

But she described the man's offending as in the "mid-range" of seriousness, and said she would take into account his youth and remorse, because "young people do not have the same decision making capacity and judgement as older offenders".

She sentenced him to two years' imprisonment to be served via an intensive community corrections order that will involve him spending 12 hours a week working on a "project" in Alice Springs while living in a residential rehabilitation facility.


The order comes with 12 conditions, including him leaving Alice Springs once the project is complete, electronic monitoring, and a ban on drinking alcohol.

The court heard he had written his victims an apology letter, and Justice Brownhill told him during sentencing: "You said you were going to change your life to show Ms Siguenza that you are sorry."

He co-offender was last month sentenced to two years' jail, backdated to the time of his arrest, with a non-parole period of one year.


 
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