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New Delhi: Australia announced Tuesday that it plans to limit its foreign students intake to 2,70,000 for the year 2025, in a bid to rein in record levels of migration that have increased house rental prices..
A day earlier, the Canadian government in a similar vein announced its reduction of the number of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) allowed into the country after record levels of migration fuelled an unemployment and housing crisis in the country...
In July this year, the Australian government more than doubled the non-refundable visa fee for foreign students from A$710 to A$1,600 in a further bid to reduce net migration levels from 5,28,000 in 2022-2023 to 2,60,000 by 2024-2025...
Caps on university intake of international students has been the focus of the Labor government in Australia, with plans first announced in December 2023 to tighten student visa rules and low-skilled workers to halve migration numbers by 2025...
According to Canadas national statistical agency Statistics Canada, the number of non-permanent residents in Canada, which includes students, asylum seekers and temporary foreign workers rose to 2.8 million this year from 1.3 million in 2021...
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