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The heartbreak behind our visa backlog

Monday, July 29th, 2019

New figures show the government has slashed resident visa numbers to the lowest seen in the last two decades.

The decrease in resident numbers in the last year is largely because of delays in processing.

“It’s not clear whether that is part of the way they’re bringing the numbers down because they have a target to reach in terms of a lower number of residents.” Read more

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