Nearly one-third of Tuvalu residents apply for Australian climate change visa program

Nearly a third of Tuvalu’s citizens are seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia, as rising seas threaten the Pacific nation’s palm-fringed shores.

Australia is offering visas to 280 Tuvalu citizens each year under a climate migration deal Canberra has billed as “the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world”.…

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