Overseas admissions slashed by two-thirds in populist party’s move to wrest back primacy in immigration debate
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According to the plan, student visa amounts will be reduced to about one-third of the current absorption amount to slightly more than 100,000 per year, and a new visa category similar to US President Trump's “genius visa” will be established to specifically recruit “high-value” students. The visa quota for international students and families of skilled immigrants will be directly reduced to zero; those who have overstayed their visas will face a…