{"id":42112,"date":"2023-04-02T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=42112"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:37:17","slug":"more-than-half-of-australias-permanent-residents-are-now-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/more-than-half-of-australias-permanent-residents-are-now-citizens","title":{"rendered":"More than half of Australia&#8217;s permanent residents are now citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/statistics\/people\/people-and-communities\/permanent-migrants-australia\/2021?utm_source=miragenews&amp;utm_medium=miragenews&amp;utm_campaign=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)<\/a> reveal that more than half (59%) of Australia\u2019s 3 million permanent visa holders, who arrived in Australia between 1 January 2000 and 10 August 2021, are now Australian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that the majority of permanent migrants were on a Skilled visa (64%), followed by those on a Humanitarian visa (61%).<\/p>\n<p>The statistics also offer new insights into permanent migrants\u2019 visa history, as most of them were granted a permanent visa as their first visa (1.7 million or 58%) and 1.3 million started on a temporary visa, namely the temporary student visa.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of top occupations, 10% of migrants from the Family visa stream and 14% of migrants from the Humanitarian visa stream were employed as Carers and Aides. While for migrants from the Skilled visa stream, the most common occupations were Business, Human Resources and Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>The highest number of permanent migrants were born in India, followed by China, England, the Philippines, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the new arrivals (56%) opted to call either Sydney or Melbourne home. The next popular areas were Perth (12.1%), Brisbane (9.7%) and Adelaide (5.6 %).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the demography statistics continue to showcase that Australia is one of the most successful multicultural societies in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information, please email <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:aisupport@absoluteimmigration.com\"><strong>aisupport@absoluteimmigration.com<\/strong><\/a> <strong>to arrange an online consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) more than half of Australia\u2019s 3 million permanent visa holders, who arrived in the country between January 2000 and August 2021, are now Australian citizens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[109,110],"class_list":["post-42112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian-citizenship","tag-australian-permanent-resident"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}