澳洲重大投资者签证, 即将变化 12.11.14,AMACS澳洲移民和咨询服务微信公众号文章

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贸易部长安德鲁·罗布说，风险投资基金可能根据他的提议有变动。这将改变未来重大投资者签证申请人的投资组合。

目前为止，批准的申请人中超过90%是中国人。而选择最多的是回报率低风险低的债券产品，而不是高风险高回报的风险投资组合。

贸易部长安德鲁·罗布建议:如果只是购买澳洲债券，对澳洲经济发展意义有限。

在十月中旬，政府宣布了新的产业政策时表示，投资签证资金应被引导五个优先经济领域: 食品和农业综合企业;开采技术和服务;石油，天然气和能源;医疗技术和药品;随着先进制造业。

罗伯先生认为，投资签证所带来的资金应当使澳大利亚风险投资和小型公司基金受益。

所提出的签证变化，对于中国的房地产投资者来说，也面临着更严格的制度要求。目前，议会委员会在审查房屋外资投资中认为，有外国人不遵守规则，制度投资澳洲房地产市场并获得暴利的情况。下一步，将颁布更严格的制度来杜绝这一现象。通过房地产项目，进驻澳洲的投资人应该注意到这一变化。

Wealthy Chinese people seeking residency in Australia will be required to inject money into venture capital funds under proposed changes to investor visa rules.

Trade Minister Andrew Robb said venture funds could receive a $500 million annual boost from changes he is proposing, which would stop users of the Significant Investor Visa from parking money in low-risk bonds.

“If people want to come here [to Australia] they need to make a contribution,” Mr Robb said on the sidelines of the APEC forum in Beijing, where he is also trying to negotiate a bilateral trade deal.

The proposed visa changes come as Chinese property investors also face a tougher regime, with the parliamentary committee examining foreign investment in housing considering how to recoup windfall capital gains made by foreigners who don’t comply with investment rules.

But the committee’s report has been delayed until the end of the month after the conclusion of the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.

The Significant Investor Visa, launched by the previous Labor government, offered a passport to those willing to invest $5 million into a qualifying investment fund, and has been a hit with wealthy Chinese wanting Australian residency.

The Abbott government has since unveiled a $15 million “platinum visa”, which has even fewer requirements around the number of days an applicant must spend in Australia. But in return the government will overhaul the entire investor visa program and use it to commercialise early-stage technology and drive innovation.

Mr Robb believes Australian venture capital and small company funds could see a boost to annual inflows of $500 million. “If we can put half a billion a year into some of these areas, it will really fire up innovation,” he said.

“In my view if someone wants the fast track [to permanent residency] they need to have some skin in the game.”

When the investor visa program began in November 2012 it was expected to provide a boost to the local funds management sector, which offered so-called “immigration compliant” products.

But approved applicants, of whom more than 90 per cent are Chinese, have shied away from higher-risk equity or venture capital investments in favour of low-risk bond products.

“Frankly, just buying bonds does nothing for us,” Mr Robb said.

Mr Robb said Australia had a problem marshalling funds to commercialise early-stage technology.

In mid-October, when the government announced its new industry policy, it said funds from the investment visa should be channelled into five priority areas of the economy.

These include: food and agribusiness; mining technology and services; oil, gas and energy resources; medical technology and pharmaceuticals; along with advanced manufacturing.

At the time, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the overhaul of industry policy was not about picking winners, but “playing to our strengths’’.

Under the new “platinum” visa, known as the Premium Investor Visa, applicants will be guaranteed permanent residency within 12 months if they invest $15 million.

The $5 million visa provides residency after four years, while both visas have no requirement around English language proficiency. Since November 2012 the scheme has seen $2.2 billion invested in complying funds.

A further $2.9 billion has been committed by applicants awaiting final approval, according to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

The investor visa program has been most popular in China, where many wealthy business people feel insecure about their wealth and covet Australia’s strong rule of law.

The program was also given a boost by Canada’s move in August to cancel its “millionaire” visa program.

Meanwhile, another potential challenge to the flow of Chinese tourists to Australia, the US and China have used the APEC summit to introduce a new bilateral visa regime, which will make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit the US.

The plan to lengthen the term of validity of their respective visas for tourists and business travellers to 10 years, from one year could give the US a competitive advantage in attracting tourists over Australia, which has a stricter visa process.