Australian Immigration Daily News

Re: Current issues with health systems

We want you to alert you to the fact that there have been some problems occurring in the electronic immigration health process since our last systems release on 22 August 2014 – these have been preventing some clients/agents being able to access eMedical Client via the ‘Organise your health examinations’ link in ImmiAcccount.

This was impacting clients who had lodged a GVP processed online visa application. However, this has now been resolved. A new issue has, however, been identified which is preventing some clients from accessing eMedical Client after lodging a My Health Declarations form. We will be scheduling a fix for this as soon as possible (hopefully mid next week). However, in the interim, please make sure that if completing an MHD form all address fields are populated when completing the form to avoid your case being impacted by this problem.

The report has been released and can be found here:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/10/morrison-highlights-proposed-changes-457-visa-scheme

Migration Alliance queried the status of Priority Group 5 applications last week.  The DIBP have responded as follows:

Dear Ms Allan, XXXXXXX [name removed for privacy reasons] passed your e-mail to the Skilled Migration Policy branch as the issues raised by your members are handled in this branch. 

As you would appreciate, Australia runs a demand driven skilled migration program to meet the current and emerging skill needs of the Australian labour market and to strengthen the whole economy.  Skilled migration policies are tailored to meet this objective and have always changed to reflect the prevailing economic conditions of the time. 

Migration Alliance members might be interested in the verifications checks being used by case officers at the DIBP in relation to Training Benchmark B applications:

UNCLASSIFIED

To Whom It May Concern,

Australian legislation explicitly defines who is permitted to provide advice on matters governed by Australian Migration Law.

The specific law governs ALL visas.

The transfer to and entry into Australia is only permitted by holding a valid visa.