Australian Immigration Daily News

The Office of the MARA has provided the following information for all RMAs:

A new Code of Conduct for registered migration agents (new Code) commenced today, 1 March 2022.  The new Code is prescribed by the Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 and is published on the Federal Register of Legislation. A PDF version of the new Code is also available on the OMARA website. Please ensure any links you have to the previous Code on your website or business materials are updated to link to the new Code. 

The new Code implements recommendation 18 of the 2014 Independent Review of the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority. 

The Office of the MARA sent the following information to Migration Alliance via email today:

A systems outage to ImmiAccount is planned on Saturday 26 February 2022 from 2:00pm until 10:30pm AEDT to perform planned system maintenance. 

During the outage window you will not be able access the following services via ImmiAccount: 

The following email was received from the South Australian government today:

Skilled & Business Migration would like to advise that following an annual review, the Australian Government has agreed to the following changes to South Australia’s two Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs).  

DAMA Occupation List

Purpose

The purpose of the instrument is to update the approved form, place and manner (the arrangements) for making an application for a Special Category (Temporary) (Subclass 444) (Class TY) visa (SCV).

Item 1219 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations prescribes the requirements that an applicant for an SCV must meet to make a valid visa application. These requirements include that the application must be made in the approved form, place and manner for an SCV specified in a legislative instrument made under subregulation 2.07(5) of the Regulations (see also subitem 1219(1) and paragraph 1219(3)(a)).

Purpose

A visa applicant may make a valid application for an Electronic Travel Authority (Class UD) visa whilst in immigration clearance if, relevantly, the person has an ETA-eligible passport (see subregulation 2.07AB(2) of the Regulations).

Subregulation 1.11B(1) provides that a passport is an ETA-eligible passport in relation to an application for a visa if it: