Australian Entrepreneur Visa – Boost for New Startups

The Australian Minister for Immigration and Border Protection recently announced that a new Entrepreneur Visa will be introduced to attract innovative talent and changes will be made to retain high achieving foreign students in Australia.

The new visa will apparently assist in retaining highly educated and talented foreign students who have gained their knowledge base in Australia and will be suitable for graduates with subject qualifications in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or specific ICT and related fields. The new visa, which is likely to come out in the second half of 2016, should provide a pathway to permanent residence to foreign student graduates from these disciplines with specialised doctorate level and Masters-by-research qualifications. Source: http://www.minister.border.gov.au/peterdutton/2015/Pages/innovative-talent.aspx