Australian Immigration Daily News

Highlights of the 2021-22 Migration Program Update

WA has recently made major changes on their website regarding the 2021-22 Skilled Migration Program. Highlights include:

• Introduction to WA Skilled Migration Occupation List Schedule 1 and Schedule 2.
• Many occupations now added to WASMOL (including schedule 1 and schedule 2)
• There are separate experience requirements for schedule 1 and schedule 2.

Requirements for WASMOL Schedule 1

• be currently residing in Australia
• have an occupation listed as available and eligible for the intended visa subclass on the Western Australian Skilled Migration Occupation List Schedule 1 (Link)
• be able to claim and give evidence of work experience in the Expression of Interest this requirement can be met through:

o   at least one year of Australian work experience in the nominated (or closely related) occupation over the last 10 years; OR

Migration Alliance has been informed of this news at 4:20PM AEST today.

The Department and ABF are currently impacted by a national network issue and are experiencing an outage with multiple IT systems.  Investigations are underway as a priority to restore systems.

Source:  Benchmark