Applicants for Business Skills visas and more specifically people with business skills, who are currently anticipating the release of their visas, will have to wait until sometime in July to find out if their application was successful or not.

Go Matilda, which is an Australia based immigration agency, said the Business Skills project is about to reach its quota of 7,000 approved visas in the migration year 2008 to 2009. Applicants who have not been included in this period’s allocation will have to wait for the next migration year, which runs from 2009 to 2010. The immigration service will only then grant onshore and offshore business visas.

The country’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship also has other concerns apart from the basic processing of business visas within the migration year. They are also worried that there might already be too many businesses starting, which, even though they might meet the basic qualification criteria, do not generate enough new jobs once they are established.

Australian immigration officials would appreciate the patience of applicants in waiting for the results of their visa application. If any changes were to be made, announcements of the revised requirements would be declared before July. The reduced number of skills visas will only last until the economic crisis has ended. Once Australia’s economy has bounced back from the global recession, larger numbers of skilled workers will be in demand in the country.