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Australia may introduce mandatory provisional visas before permanent residency

Department of Immigration and Border Protection

Source: SBS

The government is discussing plans to introduce mandatory provisional visas before migrants are allowed to live in Australia on permanent visas.


Migrants coming to Australia may have to spend a certain period of time on mandatory provisional visas before they are granted a permanent residency. The Immigration Department is exploring this possibility in a visa transformation discussion paper released on Monday.


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