Australia offers its working holiday maker visa programme for India

Australia’s Working Holiday Maker Visa Programme will not be expanding to a lot more countries, including India. This would allow Australia to recruit workers so as to help the labour shortage issue that it currently faces. The labour shortage is particularly so in Australian farms, according to Immigration Minister David Coleman.
The Australian government is also deciding on whether to extend this scheme in order to include backpackers from 13 countries to find workers for farms. The programme actually includes Working Holiday visa, and Work and Holiday visa, and is basically a cultural exchange programme enabling young people to travel, and also get employment to earn money. So, the way we see it, this could be a great opportunity for you to travel and explore Australia while putting in some work at the same time.


Australia is also going to expand this programme to other countries besides India, and these include Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, Switzerland, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Andorra, Monaco, and Mongolia.
The current programme allows backpackers to work in the country during their stay. However, this saw a decline, again leading to a shortage of workers. The programme has seen a gradual decline over the last five years; this March, about 150000 people were on a working holiday visa in the country. It has also been noted that the working holiday visa guests are mostly in the regional areas, and when they spend, it tends to improve regional economies.

So well, now you have this beautiful country to work and travel for a short amount of time while earning money as well.