Australia to welcome hundreds of overseas workers, seeks to aid recovery

Hundreds of overseas workers could be welcomed to Australia in the next 10 months, under travel exemptions for holders of a government visa created to aid the post-pandemic recovery -- even as tens of thousands of its own citizens remain stranded overseas.
 

The exemption will streamline entry requirements to allow the rapid relocation of workers critical to establishing a business in Australia. Fewer than than 500 exemptions are expected to be granted to holders of the temporary Activity (subclass 408) “Post Covid-19 Economic Recovery Event” visas during the next 10 months, before the the program is designed to expire.

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