{"id":1040939,"date":"2026-10-05T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040939"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:23:04","slug":"new-visa-rules-in-australia-from-october-2-no-more-visa-hopping-for-international-students-agents-selling-false-hope-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/new-visa-rules-in-australia-from-october-2-no-more-visa-hopping-for-international-students-agents-selling-false-hope-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"New visa rules in Australia from October 2: No more visa hopping for international students, agents selling &#8216;false hope&#8217; under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia unveiled its new visa rules effective from October 2, 2026 which will put a stop to &#8220;permanently temporary migration&#8221; and will also crack down on visa agents and immigration lawyers who are selling &#8220;false hope&#8221; to foreigners about how they can continue to live in Australia. International students can&#8217;t keep on studying in Australia just to stay in the country and now they will have to apply for a separate visa if they want to transfer courses. Also, one can&#8217;t apply for a lower-grade course after completing a higher-grade course only to remain in Australia on a student visa. This means a student can&#8217;t switch to vocational training from a bachelor&#8217;s or master&#8217;s degree because it is then evident that they just want a visa to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia unveiled its new visa rules effective from October 2, 2026 which will put a stop to &#8220;permanently temporary migration&#8221; and will also crack down on visa agents and immigration lawyers who are selling &#8220;false hope&#8221; to foreigners about how they can continue to live in Australia. International students can&#8217;t keep on studying in Australia just to stay in the country and now they will have to apply for a separate visa if they want to transfer courses. Also, one can&#8217;t apply for a lower-grade course after completing a higher-grade course only to remain in Australia on a student visa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040940,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040939\/revisions\/1040940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}