A large number of visa applications are received on a daily basis as many people aspire to leave their hometown and move to another country. People look for a better life, better job opportunities and a bigger economy due to which sometimes they end up being tricked by the agents. Immigration scams have become common nowadays. Without disclosing the actual position of the country, immigration companies fool innocent people and charge a huge amount of money from them.
Do you know - What is the actual position of Australia after the pandemic?
Let us put some light on this question and give a quick reality check to people who wish to migrate to Australia.
A new report has revealed that up to 1 million Australians live in "severe poverty" as welfare support struggles to keep pace with the nation's rising cost of living.
The report, "Behind the Line: Poverty and Disadvantage in Australia 2022", published by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, an independent economic and social research organization located within the Curtin Business School at Curtin University, showed that some of Australia's poorest families had less than A$150 ($109) per week after housing costs, reports Xinhua news agency.
"Housing costs have risen quite sharply in Australia recently...for those people at the bottom of the income distribution, that's actually causing quite a lot of strain," author of the report Alan Duncan told Xinhua.
According to national median wage data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), this meant people living in poverty would have under A$500 a week, and those living in severe poverty, under A$300.
The report highlighted that nearly 12 percent of Australia's population lived in some level of poverty, including nearly 750,000 children.
This is a huge number. Apart from this, living in Australia is quite expensive. Even a single person moving to the country can expect their monthly cost of living to fall between 800-1,000 AUD (560-700 USD), not including rent. Moreover, the path to citizenship is easy; this is only after ex-pats have completed the arduous task of obtaining a work visa. Securing a work permit in Australia is a long, complicated process, and even requires a “character check”.