THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 5 Number 7 | APRIL 2015
IMMIGRATION
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Filipina nurse asks government to reconsider visa status
'Please don’t deport us …'
A Filipina nurse’s petition via the web platform change.org to the government to allow her and
her autistic son to stay in Queensland has now drawn over 80,000 supporters.
Maria Sevilla with son Tyrone. Photo: Change.org
Changes to 457 Visa
T
emporary
work
(skilled) visa is
an option for employer to recruit
skilled foreign national to work in Australia for
up to four years. On 18 March
2015, the Federal government
announced changes to 457 skilled visa program. Among the
changes are:
MONITORING:
It will now be difficult
for sponsor to get approval on paper only with limited or no job for the visa applicant as the government will
now strengthen its impetus on
monitoring. The implication
is that the Department of Immigration and Border Protection will visit the site for