Yet A Longer Road to Partner Visa

[emo_snal]

   It seemed like the ongoing struggle to get my fiancee a visa couldn't get worse but it seems like it may have.

Background   But first let me summarize everything up to this point. So Cristina lives in Venezuela, where I, as an American, cannot go, and being from a collapsing country she can't just come to Australia on any easy-to-get visa

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[waitingman]

That's exactly the problem - there are too many people still alive from the 'White Australia' policy days & the Ten Pound Poms who were paid to come here, post WWII - I just read that scheme was in place until 1982!!

The issue is that back when those immigration policies were in place, it was primarily to get skilled workers out here for our burgeoning industrial, manufacturing & engineering projects. In these modern days when all that industry has been moved off-shore & most jobs are now in hospitality, retail, law, finance & real estate, it's the old factory workers & their indoctrinated offspring who grumble about the bloody foreigners coming over here taking our jobs & stealing our Welfare (Surely they can't do BOTH??!!), mostly because the bloody foreigners are arriving well-educated & willing to work, like the old days, but now they're not white people!!!!!

Ironically, a lot of Australian doctors, lawyers & scientists have to leave & go overseas to find work in their fields... as successive federal governments have reduced funding to research organisations, teaching hospitals & community law programs...

Full up you say?? Then why are we still building so many blocks of apartments anywhere an old building is suspiciously demolished 'falls down'??? There are hundreds & hundreds of homeless & at-risk people who could benefit from those, but they're usually snapped up as investment properties that spend more time empty than being used... probably because the necessary supporting infrastructure like schools, transport, shops & parks are a long way off being built... probably because there's not as much profit in it...

End of rant!!

[emo_snal]

Another funny thing is how they desperately want rural doctors, but apparently doctors in order to get their credentials recognized in Australia need to spend a year or so at one of a small number of approved hospitals, like doing a residency all over again, and these are all ni the major cities, and I'd imagine being forced to spend at least a year in a place increases the odds the person will decide they want to stay there versus going off into a rural area.