Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
They aren’t handing these out anymore. People are setting up companies to stay now and getting visas valid for 3 months as the PSB wants to see profits before granting a year long visa.
$750 for a work permit based 1 year RP attained through an agent’s dodgy methods was possible pre 2020 for people already here. Now it is impossible and it will be impossible from this point forward. China is using Covid to strengthen its immigration policy as well.
Honestly, isn't that a good idea? Setting up a proper immigration policy that attracts those willing to work, but also give them a way for it (past-covid) that might eventually even lead to citizenship (Japan, for example, is doing this totally wrong, and thus failing, despite urgent need for it) after 10-15 years if having a proper "work and stay history".
Pretty much what Switzerland and other developed countries do (and we're among the countries receiving the most legal immigration world-wide, so I guess it's kinda working..)
Attracting talents, rather than dodgy "English teachers", and giving them a long-term perspective, should be the way forward.