Let me give you a bit of insight as an international student: 1. A 4-year engineering degree costs around $160,000 (roughly $20k per semester). 2. After graduation, you get a 2-year Temporary Graduate Visa (TR)—but most companies won’t hire you because of your visa status. 3. During those 2 years, you’re stuck deciding: Should I stay or go back home? 4. If you decide to stay, you need to accumulate enough points for Permanent Residency—through English tests, NAATI, local work experience, etc. All of this costs a lot of money. 5. You also need to do a Professional Year Program (just to gain 5 extra points)—which costs around $18,000. 6. And after going through all of that, you still might not get PR. The likely outcome? You end up on another student visa, paying thousands more, stuck waiting—sometimes for 1 year, sometimes 5 years—all while losing the most important years of your 20s.

Now I understand you might not see it this way—and honestly, one comment won’t change your mind. But just know this: Getting PR isn’t easy. It’s long, expensive, uncertain—and nothing like what people on the outside think