{"id":1016,"date":"2014-11-20T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:20:33","slug":"australia-urges-indians-cautious-visa-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Australia urges Indians to be cautious about Visa scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/visa-scam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1017 aligncenter\" alt=\"visa scam\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/visa-scam-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/visa-scam-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/visa-scam.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The Australian High Commission here Thursday urged Indians to be cautious of scams while applying for visas and report any fraud to the authorities. A high commission statement said it had launched a national campaign &#8220;Work visa scams.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t pay the price&#8221; to investigate allegations of unauthorised payments to visa sponsors in return for visas last month. &#8220;Visa fraud is a serious issue and any attempts to defraud Australia&#8217;s migration programmes by a visa holder or sponsor will be dealt with by appropriate action from the department of immigration and border protection,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign involved an initial assessment of up to 100 visa sponsors who are subject to allegations of receiving payment for arranging sponsorship for individuals under the 457 visa programme.<\/p>\n<p>This visa allows a skilled worker to travel to Australia to work in his nominated occupation for approved sponsor for up to four years. The campaign also has a public education component to further educate visa sponsors about their obligations and make visa holders more aware of their rights and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdnBottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Australian High Commission here Thursday urged Indians to be cautious of scams while applying for visas and report any fraud to the authorities. A high commission statement said it had launched a national campaign &#8220;Work visa scams. Don&#8217;t pay the price&#8221; to investigate allegations of unauthorised payments to visa sponsors in return for visas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}