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CITING a backlog of more than 140,000 applications for skilled migration, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship released amendments to the system of awarding points for applications last year.
The result is it is more difficult and less attractive for international graduates of Australian universities to become skilled residents of this country.
Key to this was the raising of the English proficiency requirement by more than 20 per cent, from competent to very good, so that successful applicants have "fully operational command of the language with only occasional unsystematic inaccuracies and inappropriacies. Misunderstandings may occur in unfamiliar situations. Handles complex detailed argumentation well."
Native speakers may be feeling a little discomforted here.
In addition to the second language hurdle, the immigration department maintains the slowest and most expensive skilled migration application process in the English-speaking world.