Australian Immigration Daily News

Department of Home Affairs has made temporary work arrangements for certain industry sectors.  The purpose is to assist industries which are most impacted by COVID19.

Below are some of the concessions which are available:

Agriculture –

Australia has strict border measures in place to protect the health of the Australian community. As of July 2020, very limited flights are currently available to and from Australia and visa holders as well as citizens may not be able to travel at this time.

All travellers arriving in Australia, including Australian citizens, are subject to mandatory quarantine for 14 days at a designated facility, such as a hotel, in their port of arrival. By way of update you may be required to pay for the costs of your quarantine. To find out more about quarantine requirements, contact the relevant state or territory government health department.

Travel restrictions - Continued

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 5) 2020 released days ago confirming that the payment may be extended up to December 2020.

As per the explanatory statement the initial package was introduced to assist businesses and employees up until September 2020. 

The new Legislative instrument - Subsection 7(1) of the Act provides that the rules may make provision for and in relation to, one or more kinds of payments by the Commonwealth to an entity in respect of a time that occurs during the prescribed period (the period between 1 March 2020 and 31 December 2020), the establishment of a scheme providing for matters relating to one or more of those payments, and matters relating to such a scheme. Any payments must relate to the prescribed period – the period from 1 March 2020 to 31 December 2020.

Since the break-out of COVID19, word’s major airlines had to make a significant changes to the restrictions on the number of aircrafts being allowed to carry domestic and international travel.

Qantas released the following statement on International Flights

“All scheduled international flights, except for flights between Australia and New Zealand, are suspended until at least the end of October 2020, due to government restrictions. All scheduled flights between Australia and New Zealand are suspended until at least mid-August 2020”

Throughout this week in the media, Hong Kong has been in the spotlight over the political unrest with the Mainland China. Migration Alliance has been bringing readers up to date information on the current situation as it unfolds.

Below is a summary of what we know, and we do know so far about the new streamlined visa arrangements:

Announcement: