Building Tomorrow’s Australia: How Immigration Services Help Fuel Tech Startups
Melbourne is Australia’s second-largest city and a glorious city to live and work in. This livability also makes Melbourne an excellent place to recruit and retain talent, a key reason why Melbourne has built a thriving tech ecosystem. It ranked fourth in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2024 Global Liveability Index. Being a startup ourselves, Roam […]
Australia needs to do more to attract entrepreneurs & international students
For the first time, the OECD has ranked the capacities of OECD countries to attract talented and skilled individuals from abroad. This ranking features three talent categories of migrants in its Indicators of Talent Attractiveness (ITA). These three talent categories of migrants include highly educated workers (with a postgraduate or doctoral degree), foreign entrepreneurs, and […]
The Global Talent Scheme Visa – an olive branch to the tech sector
Background The last 12 months have seen significant upheaval in the employer sponsored visa categories, including the Subclass 457 – Temporary Work (Skilled) visa, Subclass 186 – Employer Nomination Scheme (‘186 visa’) and Subclass 187 – Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme permanent visas. On 19 March 2018, this upheaval culminated in the introduction of the Subclass […]