{"id":5250,"date":"2018-10-26T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2018-10-26T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:23:02","slug":"only-the-best-and-the-brightest-will-be-given-australian-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"Only the \u201cbest and the brightest\u201d will be given Australian visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly-skilled migrants will struggle to granted immigration visas amid the government&#8217;s plan to crackdown on dole bludgers. Only the &#8216;best and brightest&#8217; immigrants will be welcomed into Australia, according to the Saturday Telegraph. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scraping through the 99 different types of visas, those that attract welfare-dependent migrants could face the firing line.<\/p>\n<p>The government has already made steps to weed out poorly skilled migrants by axing the 457 visa in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The decision almost halved the number of foreign workers and raised the average salary.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign workers were paid an average of $110,000 in the past financial year \u2501 an increase of $15,000 \u2501 while almost half the amount of skills visas were approved. <\/p>\n<p>Almost 70,000 skills visas were approved at the height of the 457 visa program. Less than 35,000 were approved in the past financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration Minister is expected to encourage migrants to move to regional areas as part of the government\u2019s plans to reduce the population in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Only 7,000 foreigners who moved to Australia last year settled outside of capital cities, compared to 112,000 skilled migrants who moved to Sydney or Melbourne. (SOURCE: Daily Mail) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly-skilled migrants will struggle to granted immigration visas amid the government&#8217;s plan to crackdown on dole bludgers. Only the &#8216;best and brightest&#8217; immigrants will be welcomed into Australia, according to the Saturday Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,32,33,45,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}