PoliticsLabor targets ‘visa hopping’ international students in migration crackdown

Australia’s Labor government is tightening migration rules by requiring international students who change courses to apply for a separate visa, while temporarily barring transfers within 12 months of starting a course. It also plans to target migration agents and lawyers who help pursue applications lacking a reasonable factual or legal basis, as it seeks to reduce net overseas migration and “permanently temporary” migration.

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