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Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute

Australia is leaving thousands of international graduates in visa limbo, and it’s about to get worse

Many international students come to Australia with the hope of staying permanently.

But our latest report, Graduates in limbo: International student visa pathways after graduation, shows that the rights Australia grants international students to stay and work here after they graduate are too generous, offering many false hope.

Australia offers graduating students much longer temporary visas than our main competitors for international students, such as Canada, the UK and the US.

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