Australia Opens Immigration Door To Migrant Farm Workers

The Government of Australia has announced a special labor agreement of new horticulture few days back that will aid Australian farmers to recruit low skilled and skilled foreign workers.

The new horticulture labor agreement will effectively commence from 1st January 2020. This agreement will also offer concession in minimum salary and in English language eligibility requirement in order to become eligible for foreign workers.

Employers under the Horticulture industry can sponsor foreign workers in 31 eligible occupations in the new labor agreement.

Senator McKenzie, the Agriculture minister, commented that the new labor agreement will aid to address the needs of workers in regional areas of Australia (applicant can apply thourgh 491 visa). The horticulture industry of Australia is fully developed and for growing, it needs a skilled workforce.

The motivating factor about this agreement is that it offers a pathway to permanent residency besides low English and salary requirements. Along with this, an Australia PR can give huge incentive to migrant farm workers if they stick their jobs in the farms sector.

In the New horticulture labor agreement, employers are able to sponsor foreign workers for up to 50 years of age. English requirement is also low as one has to score at least 5 bands in each module in IELTS.

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A farmer from Victoria, Charnamat Singh, told that retaining regular employees for farming is one of the biggest challenges. Mr. Singh has to pay higher wages to retain his farm employees.

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Unofficial Australia Skill Select results update December 12, 2019

The Australian Immigration authority has conducted its latest invitation round results on 12th December, 2019 for the immigration year 2019-20. However, the results were not out as per the sources, the ITA under this draw is expected around 250 invitation for the Subclass 189 visa.

This had an unexpected advantage for Subclass 491 visa family sponsored Pro rata occupations. Skill Select automatically, gives an invitation on the basis of parameters set for 491 invitation rounds. If all places are taken up by Subclass 189 visas, then no invitations will be there for Subclass 491 visa in occupations.

As there are low 189 total invitations round, some Pro rata occupations can accidently get an invite for a 491 sponsored visa. Take an example, if 50 places had been allocated to 2613 group of Software applications for the Subclass 189 visa round and 35 places are then used up by Subclass 189 round, then remaining 15 places for the 2613 group will be given to 491 visa family sponsored category for December round of invitation.

Do I qulify to Apply for Australia Visa 189 or Visa 190?

This will be applicable when there are low number invitations for Subclass 189visa (like 500 or less) and if number of invitation exceeds from 500 or more than that, this will not happen.