Joseph James, a qualified nurse from India, who has just completed an 18-month course at Ballarat, is due for a Australian standards test for a registered nurse, and anxiously said that he might have to face deportation after his student visa expires on August 13.
"I should be a registered nurse right now, I have followed the rules and regulations," he said.
He also informed that there are almost 400 students in the same position having completed, or nearly completed, courses at universities such as Ballarat, Deakin, La Trobe and the Australian Catholic University.
The Australian Nursing Federation met 150 distressed students yesterday in Melbourne and described the change in registration requirements as "an absolute bureaucratic debacle."
Source-ANI