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Meanwhile, Australia still leaves in limbo many incoming students (holding PhD offers and funding!) for months on end, esp. from Iran. Waiting a year, two, with no updates — unnecessary and cruel. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-vis... via John Ross (Times Higher Ed). @davidpocock.bsky.social

timeshighereducation.comPhD visa applicants trapped in ‘indefinite waiting period’‘Endless stress’ confronts Iranian doctoral candidates who worked for a year just to cover the application fee

If you're going to refuse their visa, don't make them to languish for years, missing out on other PhD opportunities, without communication. Not only are you missing out on talent Australia needs, you're delaying their Australian PhD supervisors' research and projects, too — the one you funded!

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