The government enacts several changes, which were issues raised by Universities Australia: ‘University Lecturer’ has been restored to 4-year Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL), with a pathway to permanent residency; ‘Chief Executive or Managing Director’ and ‘Faculty Head’ have also been restored to the MLTSSL; A wide range of scientific, technical and professional […]
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The number of work and holiday visa places for young Australian, Chilean and Argentinean nationals will be increased annually from 1 July 2017. There will be an increase from 1500 to 2000 reciprocal visa places for Australian and Chilean nationals. There will be an increase from 700 places to 1500 visa places annually for Australian
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Visa Application Charges All Visa Application Charges (VACs) will be increased in line with the forecast Consumer Price Index and rounded to the neared $5. However, indexation only applies to the 1st instalment and does not apply to 2nd instalment VACs. Skilled Migration Visas Subclass 189: maximum age limit has lowered to 45 years
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Recent changes to the 186 and 187 visa have been confusing and alarming to say the least. It not only caught the general public by surprise but even professional in this industry were not aware of these changes. Therefore, we have released a guide to help simplify and provide an overview of the most recent changes.
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Recent changes to the 457 visa have been confusing and alarming to say the least. It not only caught the general public by surprise but even professional in this industry were not aware of these changes. Therefore, we have released a guide to help simplify and provide an overview of the most recent changes. Here
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New legislation will be introduced to change the age limit of the skilled migration visas and to allow New Zealand citizens to apply for permanent residency. These changes will come into effect on 1 July 2017. Age Limit Lowered to 45 years The age limit will be lowered from the current age of 50 to
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The Federal Budget announced a raft of new changes to immigration policy on the 9 May 2017. Whilst most of these changes will not take place immediately, you should begin thinking about how this affects you. Temporary Sponsored Parent visa The new temporary sponsored parent visa will be introduced in November 2017, with 15,000 visas
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The Turnbull government has adopted a new “Australians first” approach to skilled migration, announcing it will abolish the controversial 457 visa program for temporary skilled migrants. The scheme will be replaced by a new temporary visa specifically designed to recruit “the best and brightest”, with tougher English language tests and labour market testing requirements. “We are putting
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Partner Visa Onshore Partner processing leading up to the end of the program year will no longer follow the normal rules but instead the following will be applied (link to original): processing no longer by month of lodgement priority to be given to low-risk, fully front-end loaded applications that immediately satisfy Partner criteria. South Australia
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Occupations group Computer Network Professionals (2631) and Other Engineering Professionals (2339) have reached their ceiling value for this programme year 2016-1017. You will not be invited to apply for Skilled Independent visa Subclass 189 if your occupation is one of the following: Computer Network Professionals (2631) 263111 Computer Network and Systems Engineer 263112 Network Administrator
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