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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006RTE’s Morning Ireland featured a story on Australia’s changes to its “Working Holiday� and “Work and Holiday� visa programme. Ireland has the third-highest proportion of participants in the programme, behind the UK and South Korea, with 12,500 to 13,000 a year. The main change is that now participants on the programme can work six months with each employer, up from the former three-month limit. The seasonal work for second“Working Holiday� visa applicants has been expanded to include plant and animal cultivation, fishing and pearling, and tree farming and felling.
More information is available at http://www.immi.gov.au.
http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/228-2163537.smil
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0808/morningireland.html
More information on the changes is available at:
http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/whats-new.htm
J1ers report problems
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Siobhan Dennehy of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center in New York was interviewed on Ryan Tubridy about problems facing this year’s J-1 programme participants as well as the services offered by the EIIC. She noted her belief that the organisations operating the visa programme could be more pro-active in offering advice to the students before their arrival in the US.
Ryan Tubridy also spoke to a J-1 participant living in Yonkers who spoke of his difficulties in finding a job. He plans on returning home to Ireland after only six weeks because his job search has been fruitless.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/tommcgurk/
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