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A few points about the rules that were announced today. In the section related to international students, a series of things are written and they also announced the times that they want to implement from that date. So, let me first say that we are talking about the next few months to a year, and whether these laws will be implemented now, to what extent we should take these laws seriously, they may not be implemented at all, and in this way, we cannot answer the questions definitively. Badim and the passage of time show this issue.
One of the things that has been written is the increase in the language score required for student visas and graduate visas. That is, the student visa language score will increase from 5.5 to 6 in IELTS and the graduate visa language score will increase from 6 to 6.5. Other language certificates will increase with these grades. But this is not a requirement for universities. It means that the university must increase the required language score.
We will apply this law from the beginning of 2024.
The next issue is the discussion of more strictness on educational institutions, which has the risk of giving visas to people who enter Australia under the pretext of a student visa and then go looking for work. Here, he talked about private institutions and technical and professional courses and said that the courses they sometimes hold at a low price and for a short period of time increase the risk of student visa abuse. But he did not mention universities.
Saying this will increase the time of checking the visa of the applicants. In this case, you mentioned the replacement of GTE and said that we use the following method.
Genuine Student Test
Saying, with this test, we check whether the course for which the person wants to get a student visa will really increase his skills and progress in his job, and these kinds of things are very similar to the same GTE.
The implementation of this law will begin in late 2023 and early 2024.
Another point is the issue of applicants who apply for a student visa again from within Australia. We have had many cases where students jump from one branch to another to stay longer in Australia. A path that does not lead to permanent residence. Especially those who apply for a student visa for a lower degree from a higher degree in Australia. Having said that, we will check these things with more strictness.
The start of this law is to say from the middle of 2024.
The most important part of these announced rules is the graduate visa section, where bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral graduates of Australian universities can apply for this visa and stay and work in Australia after completing their studies. Bachelor’s degree up to 2 years, master’s degree up to 3 years and doctorate up to 4 years. Now this time is going to be reduced so that the bachelor’s degree and master’s degree will be education-oriented for 2 years, and the master’s degree will be research-oriented and doctorate for 3 years. Another point of discussion is that there have been cases where the party, after the graduation visa, applies for a student visa again, that too at lower levels just to stay in Australia. This possibility is also going to be removed. And finally, the age of the graduate visa applicant. So far, it has been said that under 50 years of age can apply. This was while the age for applying for permanent residency was 45. That’s why saying these two things doesn’t work together and leads to the party not being able to get permanent residence. That’s why the age of applying for this visa is said to be 35.
This law will be implemented from the middle of 2024.
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