Aussie expats giving up on Britain

Stricter UK visa regulations and continued economic gloom are the reasons being attributed to increasing numbers of Australian expats leaving the Old Dart and returning home.

This represents a change from the traditional reason most from down under end up heading home, the miserable British weather.

However, weather related and economic sunshine has been enjoyed in Australia over recent month, in stark contracts to the deepening gloom in the UK, prompting a number of expats to leave for home for the final time.

Track Me Back is an online employment agency that assists expats working in the UK in making the move home. The company has noticed a definite trend since the start of this year when the UK’s tough new stance of immigration and visas, under the Highly Skilled Migrant Visa system, came into effect.

Track Me Back has had its business triple since January this year, with a huge number of Australian expats wanting to make the trip home. These include members of the state education department and high profile corporate clients such as ANZ, NAB and Telstra. Though these people are not necessarily suffering from redundancies, they are rather seeing a change in opportunities.

Australia has weathered the economic storm fairly well and is now advertising fir skilled workers to return home. Couple this with the fact that the Aussie dollar is at its highest point for over a decade against the pound and unemployment at a three decade low and Australia becomes an increasingly attractive place to live.