”Australia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, but has long had a high proportion of its population — currently 25 million people — living in cities. Around two in every five Australians live in Sydney and Melbourne alone. The government is considering banning Emigrants from settling in Sydney and Melbourne… Read More
News on Humanitarian Visa / Asylum – AUSTRALIA
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The new AUSTRALIAN Temporary Sponsored Parent Visa – How it is right now!!!
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457 Nomination ‘Genuineness’ Policy to be Updated
457 Nomination ‘Genuineness’ Policy to be Updated At the moment, for a business to nominate an overseas worker under the Temporary Work (Skilled) (subclass 457) visa program, it is necessary for the position to be ‘genuine.’ The ‘genuineness’ criteria was introduced on 1 July 2013 and has created additional challenges when businesses apply to nominate… Read More
Introduction of biometrics collection in South Africa
Introduction of biometrics collection in South Africa From Wednesday 8 June 2016, the current visa application lodgement process for applicants in South Africa applying for visas to Australia will change. All applicants, regardless of nationality, who are in South Africa at the time of making a visa application to enter Australia will be required to… Read More
Breaking Visa Application rules and the consequences
See why it is so important to tell the truth. The below article is a recent example of why it is so important to tell the truth in any dealings or applications for visa’s with The Department of Emigration and Border Protection (DIBP), If someone is caught, the consequences could be as serious. A graduate… Read More
New Skills lists for Australia has just come out
Hi All, Just a quick update: the new Australian skills lists just came out on the 1st of July and whilst there were some changes, we didn’t find that they were hugely significant when it came to the adding of any particular occupations to the list. Most of the current SCOL occupations have remained as… Read More
Australian Priority 5 skilled visa processes
We have received the following update from the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) with regards to the priority 5 skilled visa processing.The number of applications still in the pipeline is 10,361. The numbers of cases withdrawn over the last three program years were 1885 in 2012/13; 1776 in 2013/14; and 73 in the 2014/15 program… Read More