Migrants who are relying on an employer to sponsor them to gain permanent residency, face up to two years in limbo while their visa applications are processed.
And that can be a long time in business.
“When businesses collapse - which is fairly frequent, particularly in some industries - they leave behind the carnage, and it’s particularly hard on workers on visas,” United Voice ACT secretary Lyndal Ryan said.
Applicants are left scrambling to find alternative sponsorship and start the costly process again.
But if they fail, or as some have discovered, the rules have changed in the meantime, they must return home.
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