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14 Feb Consultancy in South Africa

13 Feb Miscellaneous Measures Bill Passes both houses

On the 13th of February 2019, the senate passed the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 as amended by the House of Representatives. Schedule 1 of the Bill, which deals with the transfer to Australia of persons requiring treatment, commences the day after...

13 Feb VETASSESS: Employment Date

VETASSESS has announced that, for the assessment of general professional occupations, it will use not only month and year to calculate employment dates, but also day: VETASSESS currently uses only month and year to calculate the employment dates. As of the 14th February 2019, we will...

12 Feb Queensland: Business & Skilled Programs Closed

Queensland has now closed state nomination for all business and skilled VISAS (submitted through SkillSelect) from today the 8th of February 2019. No Further invitations will be issued from this date. BSMQ will continue to process applications which have already been invited for state nomination prior...

11 Feb Priority Processing for Regional Areas

Regional employers and skilled migrants who are wanting to live in regional areas will be given access to priority processing on visa applications. The Government will provide $19.4 million in funding over the next four years to support regional areas to attract skilled migrants. Regional employers and...

08 Feb $11 Million in funding to lure more Chinese tour groups down under

China is Australia's fastest growing and highest spending inbound tourism market, with 2.5 million Chinese tourists on tours per year. Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman said making it as easy as possible to facilitate travel between China and Australia was a critical...

06 Feb SkillSelect: 11th December 2018 Invitation Round

Number of invitations reduced from 4,350 to 2,500; number of invitations for individuals with 70 points reduced from 2,200 to 736 The Department has just released the details of SkillSelect's 11th December 2018 invitation round.  The number of invitations for visa subclasses 189 and 489 on this...

05 Feb Resident Return Visas are at record high processing times

Whilst becoming a permanent resident allows you or your client to remain in Australia indefinitely, travel facility (i.e. ability to travel in and out of Australia) is generally limited to five years. The purpose of resident return visa (RRV) arrangement is to allow certain people who...

05 Feb Mid-year update to the Immigration South Australia Occupation Lists

Immigration SA has conducted a mid-year review of its occupation lists - the State Nominated Occupation List (SNOL) and the Supplementary Skilled List (SSL), with some limited changes as a result (Note: the lists undergo greater change at each new program year). Change will take affect...

04 Feb Advertised positions in Orana, NSW suitable for 187 Applicants: January 2019

For the month of January, Health & Mining lead the charge for jobs being advertised in the Orana region. There were 54 Health and Social Welfare roles; including General nursing, mental health nursing, support workers and a number of positions for doctors and specialists. Most of...