Australia Immigration Year End Report - 2017

27 Dec 2017

Australian-immigration

Finally, the time has come to bid goodbye to the year 2017, which had its share of both pros and cons in immigration rules. To begin with, the changes in its occupation list removing, 200 occupations from its list on 19^th April 2017, this was a big jolt to many aspirants. However, post this debacle Australian Immigration has not taken any drastic decision for the year 2017. The below data will give you insight into the number of visa’s approved for the year 2017 for different programs and also compare the Australian Immigration today with the year 2012 Immigration statistics.

Skill Stream	2016 – 2017
Skilled Independent	43,990
State & Territory, Regional Sponsored	28,850
Business Investment & Innovation Program	7,260

The below table shows the Top 3 in Demand Occupations compared to 2011-12

Occupations	2016-17	2011-12	Change %
Software Engineer	3,346	1,428	134.3%
Registered Nurses	1,965	1,009	94.7%
Developer Programmer	1,535	1,350	13.7%

The below table shows the comparison between Onshore and Off-shore applications

Stream	Onshore	Offshore
State/Territory Nominated	8,383	15,382
Skilled Independent	17,412	25,010
Skilled Regional	585	1,085

Top 3 Highest numbers of Migrants in terms of their country origin

Country	Number
India	38,854
China	28,293
UK	17,038

The above report gives us an insight towards the 2018 Australia immigration. One can assure that next year is going to be positive in terms of immigration to Australia, and as the Australia immigration has had a shortfall of their visa approvals for the year 2017 we can expect more positive reforms to be made by the government.

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