Australia: Investigation claims education visa system claims is being rorted to provide cheap labour
摘要
日期: 2023年7月23日
地点: 澳大利亚
企业
NewStars Education and Migration - Recruiter其他
Not Reported ( 汽车维修和保养 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 中国 , 汽车维修和保养 , Gender not reported )议题
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Contract Substitution , Poverty Wages , 食物权 , 恐吓和威胁 , Withholding Passports , Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 剥夺言论自由 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy回应
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后续行动: 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”.
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"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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