Work is continuing to reduce a backlog of visa processing for skilled workers looking to enter Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
Source:The backlog of skilled worker visas is a "hopeless situation" but the government is working as fast as it can to get them processed, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says., it's estimated more than 100,000 visas for overseas workers are yet to be processed.Advertisement
"It's a hopeless situation that we inherited. We have put considerable resources into additional staff to get these visas processed," he told Sydney radio 2GB on Wednesday. "How frustrating is it that there are people who want to come here who've been waiting in the queue, some for more than a year, but their visa can't be processed."Mr Albanese indicated cuts to the public service by the previous government had led to a lack of resources for processing visas.
He also said the processes under which skilled workers were brought into the country to fill vacancies needed to be examined. "We bring in temporary migrants in areas where there are skill shortages and then we get rid of them and then we get new temporary migrants in to fill those same jobs. That to me doesn't make any sense."in order to solve workplace shortages across several key industries.READ MORE
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