Australia to tighten immigration process

 
Australia, which has witnessed unending attacks on Indian students, is planning to make immigration rules tougher so that only genuine.  
  
Indian students go there for higher studies and not the ones who look for "backdoor" entry to employment.

Canberra has also commissioned an external review to see how to tighten the process of weeding out private educational institutions that do not measure up to quality levels.

The move assumes significance in the context of continuing attacks on Indian students, several of which of which have been described as racially-motivated.

".....On the other set of issues we have been putting a lot of effort into integrity issues and what we are determined to do is to ensure that people who are trying to go to Australia to study are genuine students and are not looking for a back door to work," Australian high commissioner Peter Varghese said.

One consequence of that extra effort, he said, was that they were putting into these integrity measures that would result in an increase in the number of education applications being rejected.

"It will be because either we have concluded that the real intention is not to study or we are satisfied that the documentation is not authentic and fraudulent."

He said Australia was a country of high migration and they would always be looking for migrants who have skills that are in short supply in Australia.  PTI