Australia: Investigation claims education visa system claims is being rorted to provide cheap labour
要約
Date Reported: 2023年7月23日
場所: オーストラリア
企業
NewStars Education and Migration - Recruiterその他
Not Reported ( 自動車修理及びメンテナンス ) - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 1
移住者・移民労働者: ( 1 - 中国 , 自動車修理及びメンテナンス , Gender not reported )課題
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Contract Substitution , Poverty Wages , 食の権利 , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Withholding Passports , Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 表現の自由の否定 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy回答
Response sought: Yes, by Sydney Herald
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: In response to questions, NewStars produced documents showing Qi knew he was coming to Australia on an education visa. However, they conceded they had never spoken directly to him. Despite trying a number of times, they were “unable to be answered”, according to a written statement from the migration agent. The statement said that, since the woman claiming to be his sister had provided all the requisite documentation, “we were also satisfied that [she] had full authority acting on behalf of Mr Qi”. It was only later, when Qi’s lawyer approached NewStars for documentation, did they realise “that they are not in biological relationship”.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
"Brought to Australia as a ‘student’, Henry was made into a slave", 23 July 2023
If you believe what it says on Yongge “Henry” Qi’s visa, he came to Australia to study. But he never went to the marketing and communication course he was enrolled in, and it was fanciful to think he could: the only English words he knows are “yes” and “no”.
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An investigation by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes can also reveal that influencers on Chinese social media apps with hundreds of millions of users are luring people to Australia with false promises of permanent residency.
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Through a translator, Qi said he was lured to Australia by his employer with the promise of free accommodation, food, air tickets and a comfortable salary, but he ended up being treated like a slave.
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The misuse of education visas is one of the rorts that have allowed criminals to traffic large numbers of people into the country to be exploited. A recent report by former police chief Christine Nixon also showed “grotesque” abuses of the visitor and asylum visa systems.
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Dong said other common scams were to bring people to Australia on visitor visas and then have them falsely apply for asylum. These people could then keep working as they appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which has a years-long backlog of cases, and then to judicial review.
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Participating employers see it as a “path to get cheap labour”, he said.
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