Australian Immigration Daily News

Property Ownership in Melbourne From Afar

The Melbourne property market has seen an unprecedented amount of growth over past years and many expect the surge will continue. Now is the best time to secure a property in one of the most lucrative regions of Australia even if you do not live locally. The process of buying in another state or country may seem gruelling, but with the support of a qualified and well-trained buyers advocate you can be supported to purchase a property in the distinctive Melbourne zone.

Locating Advantageous Properties

The New Zealand Minister for Immigration has announced that New Zealand will accept TOEFL iBT^® test scores to meet the English language requirements for skilled migration visas from 21 November 2016. 

This follows a review of English language requirements for a range of permanent skilled migration visas with stricter requirements around language proficiency being introduced. 

This INZ initiative provides greater choice of English proficiency measures for applicants both onshore and offshore. 

The following email has just been received from the DIBP:

Good morning

Have the results of last week's election in the US got you down?

Are you one of the millions of people who helped to crash Canada's immigration website after the results came through? But do you hate the idea of living with the freezing cold, snow and ice, a summer that lasts for half an hour in a good year and the risk of being eaten by a polar bear?

Here's a better idea: Consider migrating to Australia!!!

What is the likely outcome if your client is HIV positive and the client, applies for a visa for which no “health waiver” is available?

That would be the case if the visa sought is subject to PIC 4005, for which no waiver is available, instead of PIC 4007, from which a waiver is available?

Both PIC 4005 and PIC 4007 provide that the applicant must be free from a disease or condition for which the provision of health care or community services would be likely to result in significant cost to the Australian community in the areas of health care and community services, or prejudice the access of Australian citizens or permanent residents to health care of community services, regardless of whether the health care or community services will be used by the visa applicant.  The waiver of PIC 4007 is available if it can be shown that the cost of the health care or community services that will be needed by the applicant will not be “undue”.