Australian Immigration Daily News

Representatives from the Law Council warned the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, that the proposed changes may be inconsistent with our international obligations.

Under the proposed legislation as it is drafted, the Minister can strip anyone convicted of terrorism-related offences of their Australian citizenship regardless of the severity of the conviction. The proposed legislation stipulates the Minister need only be ‘satisfied’ that the person would have another citizenship – a much lower and vaguer threshold.

Current laws allow individuals to lose citizenship if they are convicted of a terrorism-related offence with a prison sentence of at least six years, and have citizenship of another country.

Source: Law-Council-Media-release---warns-against-handing-Home-Affairs-Minister-power-to-render-Australians-stateless.pdf

Recent Citizenship decisions can be found on page 3.  Recent Migration decisions can be found on page 4.

It is recommended that the Bulletin be read on-line. This has the advantage of allowing the reader to use hyperlinks to access the full text of cases and other internet sites mentioned in the Bulletin.

Source: AAT-Bulletin-4-2019.pdf

The instrument revokes Migration (IMMI 18/054: Granting of Contributory Parent, Parent and Other  Family Visas in the 2017/2018 Financial Year) Instrument 2018 (F2018L00683) in accordance with  Subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, which states that where an Act confers a power to make, grant or issue any instrument of a legislative or administrative character, the power shall be construed as including a power exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like conditions (if any) to repeal, rescind, revoke, amend, or vary any such instrument.

The instrument operates to determine the maximum number of visas that may be granted in the financial year commencing 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 for the specified classes of visas.

The purpose of the instrument is to determine the maximum number of visas for specified classes of visas. The maximum numbers of visas for the specified visa classes in the instrument has not yet been reached. Those classes of visas are as follows:

Many migrants will be aware that skills assessment can be a cumbersome as well as stressful process.  Just as diverse as a visa application criterion for 99 visas we have in Australia, a Skills Assessment comes in all different shapes and level of difficulty.  Whilst in most situations, where a Skills Assessment is required, the situation is unavoidable, the process of completing a Skills Assessment can be streamlined by approaching a few basic techniques which will help you in the long run.

Know your skills Assessment Body

This is Skills Assessment lesson 101.  How well do you know your skills assessment body?  For example, if you are required to complete a Skills Assessment via Engineers Australia, do you know what stream you are required to apply under?  How long will the assessment take and what is involved as part of your assessment?  Trades Recognition Australia may ask you to complete a practical component therefore knowing some background information about your Skills Assessment body is vital to success of your application.

The number of migrants becoming Australian citizens continues to rise, with an 83 per cent increase in citizenship applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 compared with the same period last year.

Between July and December 2018, almost 73,000 citizenship applications were finalised. This is compared to almost 40,000 during the same period in 2017.  

"Australia Day is by far the most popular day to become a citizen and we are expecting more than 16,200 people to participate in ceremonies on Australia Day this year," Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman said.