Don't go unless you've already secured employment.

The last sentence is the category where my already successfully migrated relatives are in.

To my knowledge, they are the only ones who have managed to secure their PR without involving much of their life living as undocumented immigrants.

I am not just referring to Australia, the other western countries as well.

I have quite a number of friends and acquaintances who have had (or still are) trying to secure employment that is relevant in their field and in turn secure them PRship by working in convenience stores on minimum wage.

It's fine if it pays off within a couple of years and you get your PR after being successfully employed in the field you're in, but it's unwise if you're just gonna arrange stock in a grocery store in a Melbourne suburb, lose out your mid 20's years and not accumulating experiences in your relevant work field here in Malaysia.

I have known far too many people (and am likely to know more in the future now that so many of us Malaysians want to GTFO of the country with our economy going to the dogs) who have wasted their youth away and end up returning with little savings and too old to secure what that is meant for fresh-graduates.

i.e. my ANU (one of the prestigious Go8 unis) engineering graduate nephew (who is in his early 30's) and refuses to come back ever since he graduated about 5 years ago, after all these years failing to secure employment in his field (still is, the last I heard) he's still doing minimum wage work in an unrelated field. His justification? His wage is already more than what he would be paid in fresh graduate salary here as an engineer in Malaysia. He doesn't ever take into consideration that you don't get paid fresh graduate salary for 5 years straight (at least it's not the norm, any way)

One day, in our opinion, he'll return, and when he does, god knows how is he going to progress, both career-wise and in life. Still no PR, btw.