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Australia's migrant digital workforce has a ten times higher percentage of 457 visa holders, than the national average. The findings, which come from an AIMIA salary survey, show that 10% of Australia's digital industry workforce hold a migrant visa.

AIMIA, which is the Digital Industry Association of Australia and represents a range of digital organisations, found the migrant workforce across the digital sector to be 'well above the 1% average across other industries.'

Commentators say that the study, which surveyed 507 digital workers, further confirms the difficulties Australia has in producing enough people with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) skills.

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Australia working holidaymaker visas available right for 18 to 30 year old. Call the London Office on 0344 991 9222 for further details.

Fortunately, despite a number of changes to the Tier 2 points-based system for skilled workers, prompted by a recent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report, UK immigration minister James Brokenshire announced that the working rights of Tier 2 visa dependants will not be affected by the changes, a decision welcomed by the Permits Foundation.

New Tier 2 visa rules, the first of which came into effect on April 6, 2016, include an increase in the minimum salary threshold for experienced Tier 2 General workers to £25,000, while the minimum salary threshold for Tier 2 intra-company transfer short term visa holders has been increased to £30,000....

Australia working holidaymaker visas available right for 18 to 30 year old. Call the London Office on 0344 991 9222 for further details.

The most recent data available shows that the US, E-1 Treaty Trader visa and E-2 Treaty Investor visa bring four times more immigrants into the US than the much publicised EB-5, immigrant investor program, according to the Center for Immigration Studies [CIS] - an anti-immigration research organization.

While the CIS is an anti-immigration organisation their report despite containing numerous inaccuracies is actually quite interesting.

Based on data from the US Department of State's Report of the Visa Office for 1994 through 2013, the Center for Immigration Studies says that the E-1 Treaty Trader and E-2 Treaty Investor programs provided non-immigrant visas for more...