最近澳洲移民局在官方网站的Blog明确提出限制持有SVP简化签证的留学生，随意跳转到其他非SVP的学校。

澳洲移民局的留学生签证8516条款早在2003年8月就开始限制留学生抵达澳洲以后所攻读的课程必须和签证吻合，所以如何滥用SVP简化签证的宽松要求来到澳洲，然后作为跳板去垃圾学校的做法是不明智的。

移民局举例说明如果留学生不准备呆在原来的SVP大学，那么有3条出路：

1. 立刻转到另外一个SVP院校，当然前提是要获得大学的release letter；

2. 在第一个院校攻读半年课程，然后再转去其他院校；

3. 离开澳洲，另外重新办理572签证。

百利留学顾问爆料，移民局之所以最近三令五申强调8516条款，其实是因为最近出现了很多留学生滥用SVP签证，特别是印度和越南的留学生。他们通过SVP不需要担保金和雅思要求，混到澳洲，然后突然全部转去一个学费超级便宜的挂名学校。很多大学深受其害，因此，各大学准备提高了这些地区的SVP入学要求。

那么如果真的遇到问题，以上的三种处理办法，都需要统筹规划和专业办理，比如如何拿到release letter, 转去什么样的学校会更加合适，实在没办法要离开澳洲，如何说服签证官再次给你签证等。

我下午又要见一个留学生，被一个中介忽悠去一个私立学校，居然没有拿到第一个大学的release letter的情况下就出了eCOE, 现在学生发现资讯有偏差，准备回到原大学继续读书，但是发现已经上当了，这个小学校不肯退款，学费要不到，看来我们又要开始帮助她维权了。早点找我们规划，就不会有这样的问题了。

另外，由于违反8516条款，移民局有权也事实上已经开始取消留学生签证，这个时候需要进行详细解释，甚至MRT上诉。如果同学们不明白自己的学校是不是SVP院校，也可以联系我们百利的顾问。

Changing Courses Changes Everything

By Jalford on 14 Jan 2014 9:43am, n

Some international students may find the course they enrolled in to study isn’t what they anticipated and would like to change their course. If this is you, it is important you do your research and are fully informed before you change courses. We’ve developed fictional scenarios to help you understand the conditions of your student visa and what it could mean when you change your course.

The first scenario is about changing courses if you are struggling with the requirements of your university course and find an alternative vocational course is more practical for your learning ability and career aspirations…

Scenarios

Moving from a university to a vocational education course

• You must complete six months of the highest qualification course in which your visa was granted before changing courses with a different education sector.

• You must obtain a new visa to study in a different educational sector.

Names of people and education providers in this story are fictional for the purposes of this case study.

Mandeep was enrolled with the Eucalyptus University to study a Bachelor of Accounting. She was granted a Higher Education Sector (subclass 573) visa.

After commencing her bachelor degree, she was informed by a friend she could study her course faster and cheaper at a different institution. Mandeep thought this sounded like a good option as she wanted to get her degree as fast as possible. She thought she may have a problem with her visa if she changed her course.

Mandeep phoned the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to see if she could move to this cheaper institution. After confirming all the details of Mandeep’s case, the immigration officer told Mandeep her visa was granted under streamlined visa processing arrangements with the Eucalyptus University—if she changed to a non-streamlined education provider while holding a streamlined student visa, she may be in breach of a condition of her visa (condition 8516).

The immigration officer informed Mandeep that if she wanted to change education provider she would have to choose one of the following options:

• transfer to another streamlined institution

• remain in her current course and apply for a new student visa (after completing six months of her principal course) with a letter of offer or confirmation of enrolment from the new provider

• depart Australia, request the voluntary cancellation of her student visa and then apply for a new student visa with a letter of offer or confirmation of enrolment from the new education provider.

Mandeep decided to move to the cheaper institution, regardless of the information she had found out about her visa. Shortly after, the department contacted her and issued a Notice of Intention to Consider Cancellation for her student visa. Mandeep responded to the notice and provided reasons why her visa should not be cancelled. The department considered her response and proceeded to cancel her student visa for breach of condition 8516.

Mandeep was upset and regretted not abiding by the conditions of her visa. Mandeep no longer held a visa to remain lawfully in Australia and made arrangements to return to her home country.

Stay tuned for another scenario next week about changing courses in the first six months of study.

最后总结，如果我们的澳洲留学生同学发现所进到的SVP大学不太符合自己的期望值或者学习跟不上等各种情况需要转学，请一定要联系可靠的专业顾问，千万不要被个别私立垃圾学校或者打酱油的中介忽悠了，或者自己突发奇想做出法盲的行为，造成不可挽回的损失，这个损失不单单是经济上的，还包括在移民局那边的个人信誉问题，如果不满足GTE要求，以后就很难拿到签证了，希望我们的留学生同学要注意这个问题。澳洲百利留学提供免费的咨询，欢迎微信直接留言、电话或上门咨询，请务必关注我们的微信。