Citizenship Minister Alan Tudge says the government is examining ways to make migrants stay in regional centres if they've been sponsored to work outside Australia's big cities. Mr. Tudge says the government is only considering changes and is yet to formulate any proper policy on the visas.
Australia has a handful of visas specifically on offer to those who want to work in a regional area, including the Skilled Regional and the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme.
Only seven-thousand of nearly 190-thousand migrants to Australia settled in rural areas last year.
More stories on SBS Gujarati
બજેટ 2018 - માઇગ્રન્ટ્સને અસર કરતા ફેરફાર
![Clockwise from top left: Tamba Banks of the Jaru tribe, whose family once lived in the Bungle Bungles, [known to her people as Billingjal], is one of the traditional owners of the Purnululu national park. Credit: Barry Lewis/Corbis via Getty Images; Bushfire Source: Supplied / Tasmania Fire Service; Professor Nalini Joshi Source: Nalini Joshi](https://images.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/781ea33/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2Fcb%2Faebd6dc1480a9b5eca8788a0e754%2Fcopy-of-sbs-audio-youtube-end-card-2-3.jpg&imwidth=1280)
