The Passport Legislation Amendment (Overseas Travel by Child Sex Offenders) Bill 2017 has been read for the second time in the House of Representatives.
The purpose of this Bill is to prevent Australians listed on a State or Territory child sex offender register, with reporting obligations, from travelling overseas to sexually exploit
Read MoreSome 65 per cent of Australia’s 1.7 million recent migrants and temporary residents were employed in November 2016, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
Read MoreEntrepreneur stream
You must:
be under 55 years of age, although a state or territory can waive this requirement if your proposed complying entrepreneur activity will be of exceptional economic benefit to the nominating state or territory
have competent English and be able to provide evidence of this at the time you
Legislative Amendment – F2017L00549 – Migration Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2017 – lowers the upper age limit at invitation for Subclass 189 Skilled Independent, Points Tested stream applicants to 45 years old.
Schedule 1, subitem 1137 (4B), item (4) lowers the age at the time of invitation to apply for a
Read MoreThe APEC is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to facilitate economic growth and prosperity in the region. The BTC is a travel document issued to business travellers who are citizens of APEC participating economies and provides them with reciprocal entry arrangements in nearly all APEC economies
Read MoreThe Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) will apply to following visa subclasses which are lodged as from 19 April 2017. Any applications lodged already in these visa categories will not be affected.
Skilled Independent (subclass 189),
Skilled Regional family sponsored (subclass 489)
Temporary Graduate – Graduate work stream (subclass 485) visas
The
Read MoreThe MLTSSL will be revised based on outcomes from the Department of Education and Training’s 2017-18 SOL review.
Read MoreWhat does this change mean for VETASSESS applicants?
If your nominated occupation isn’t affected by this reform, then you do not need to do anything. VETASSESS is continuing to process your Skills Assessment application as usual.
If your pending Skill Assessment application is significantly affected by this reform including removal from the list of eligible
Read MoreOccupations listed in both Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 in the following instrument are eligible for subclass 457 visas from 19 April 2017.
See: 2017/040 – Specification of occupations, a person or body, a country or countries Amendment Instrument. A combined list of eligible skilled occupations which includes the occupations on both schedules
Read MoreOn 18 April 2017, the Government announced that the Temporary Work (Skilled) visa (subclass 457 visa) will be abolished and replaced with the completely new Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa in March 2018.
The TSS visa programme will be comprised of a Short-Term stream of up to two years and a Medium-Term
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