Australian Immigration Daily News

Under the Temporary Graduate Work visa (subclass 485), the post-study ‘stay and work’ period for eligible graduates of listed qualifications will increase, as follows:

• Four years for Bachelor degree graduates, up from two years previously.

• Five years for Master degree graduates, up from three years previously.

• Six years for PhD graduates, up from four years previously.

Source: Post-study-work-rights-extension---qualifications-announced.pdf

The Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011 (the Regulations) make provision for, among other things, the proscription of persons or entities for autonomous sanctions. The Instrument, made under regulation 6 of the Regulations, designates persons and entities for targeted financial sanctions and declares those persons for the purposes of travel bans. The Minister made the designations and declarations being satisfied that the persons and entities:

- are responsible for, or complicit in, the threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine (item 9 of the table at regulation 6) (the Ukraine criteria); or

- are, or have been, engaging in an activity or performing a function that is of economic or strategic significance to Russia (paragraph (a) of item 6A of the table at regulation 6) (paragraph (a) of the Russia listing criteria); or

- are a Minister or senior official of the Russian Government (paragraph (b) of item 6A of the table at regulation 6) (paragraph (b) of the Russia listing criteria).

The human rights compatibility of the Instrument is addressed by reference to each of the human rights engaged below.

Source: Autonomous-Sanctions---Designated-Persons-Russia-and-Ukraine-2023.pdf  and

Autonomous-Sanctions---Designated-Persons-Russia-and-Ukraine-2023---explanatory-statement.pdf

Reuben Saul of Estrin Saul lawyers has made the following exciting announcement:

"Huge congrats to Daniel Estrin and his band Voyager for being selected as the Aussie entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

Not only is this an enormous moment for WA music (and keytars generally), but I'm pretty sure it's the first time an Immigration Lawyer has made it all the way to Eurovision stage"

To watch Daniel and his band please click below:

See below:

How-Australia-broke-its-migration-system-and-what-we-can-do-to-fix-it.pdf

The extension will take effect from 1 July 2023.

The extension is in addition to the existing additional one to two years of post-study work rights available to eligible students who study, live and work in regional areas.

The allowable work hours cap will also increase from 40 hours a fortnight to 48 hours per fortnight.

Source: Extended-post-study-work-rights-for-international-graduates.pdf