在咨询州和领地政府代表后，移民局已经披露了技术移民改革计划。变化将对完成两年澳洲学习并计划申请技术移民的留学生带来颠覆性的影响。

“A NEW SKILLED MIGRATION MODEL
  全新的技术移民制度

Targets applicants (including in the Independent category) with skills of high economic value and in the numbers required by the labour market;
目标：  申请人必须必须有高经济价值和劳工市场需求

Selects skilled migrants on the basis of those who score the highest rather than those who simply meet the prescribed pass mark;
选择：  技术移民拥有最高的分数而不是那些仅仅通过规定分数的申请者

Changes the relationship between the lodgment of an application and the legal obligation to grant a visa, thereby eliminating long and costly visa application pipelines;
改变：移民法改变，申请签证不再意味移民局有法律责任必须批准申请，从而将可能清除长时间和数量巨大的等待审批的申请人

Isagile and responsive to decisions to increase or decrease the size of the permanent migration program; and
灵活性： 灵活的决定增加或者降低永久居民批准的数量

Complements the `demand-driven’ employer sponsored visa categories.”
补充：   由需求推动的雇主担保签证类别

DIAC plans to cut students from the waiting lists
移民局计划清除等候清单上的学生申请人

Currently there are 137,500 applicants waiting to be processed for GSM visas alone. This is more than double the entire current 65,300 places allocated to international students. In addition to this DIAC is receiving about 10,000 applications a month so by the end of the financial year there approximately another 60,000 will be joining the current backlog before the end of this financial year next ending June 2010.
当前，有137500申请人等候签证审批，超过分配给国际学生配额的两倍，另外，每个月移民局接受到10000的新申请，从而本财年结束的时候，将会增加60000左右新的等待签证审理的申请数量。

One of the most concerning aspects of DIAC’s plans above is that they intend to cut students from the waiting lists to “eliminating long and costly visa application pipelines”.

This will mean that there will no longer be any certainty of gaining your visa just because you lodged your application. There is also the possibility DIAC may retrospectively apply these changes to those students already waiting for their residency on bridging visas.
从以上变化可以看出：即使你申请了签证，同时符合申请时候所有法律要求，也不再意味着你一定可以获得永久居民签证。同时，移民局也可能清除那些已经拥有过桥签证正在等待审

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