Australian Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge said that foreigners migrating to Australia for love won’t be barred from attaining permanent residency if they do not pass the new English language competency test. But they have two years to make “all reasonable efforts” to learn the language through free English classes.
This comes after the new test received criticism from members of the Labor Party who called the not-exactly-new requirement “cruel” to people who do not come from an English-speaking background. English-speaking ability is already required for the skilled migrant stream.
