Australian Immigration Daily News

All Accountant Occupations plus Civil Engineer Occupations are closed until 1 August 2019, unless you have genuine full-time employment in a related role in the Orana region.

If you choose to apply and do not meet this condition your EOI fee will not be refunded.

If you wish to check if your role is considered "related" please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  attaching your contract and letter of offer for clarification before you apply.

Then following information was sent in an email by the NSW Government today:

The Department of Home Affairs has recently announced that the Subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa will be replacing the current 489 visa in November 2019.

The new subclass 491 visa will have a lot of the same features of the current 489 subclass however, some differences will include a visa validity period of 5 years and the imposition of conditions which will enforce the government’s intentions that visa holders live, work and study only in regional areas, which for NSW will now include all regions outside of Sydney (Hunter and Illawarra regions will be awarded regional status) for at least the first three years.

The following message appears on the NSW Government website:

We would like to announce that we have met our quota of nominations for the Skilled-Nominated visa (subclass 190) for the 2018-19 financial year.

We will announce the commencement of invitations to apply for NSW nomination for the 2019-20 financial year via our website in the coming weeks.

This information has been extracted from the REPS NOTICE PAPER: Questions In Writing - 016 Ms Sharkie: Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services & Multicultural Affairs about "Why has Govt sought to privatise visa services?":

MS SHARKIE: To ask the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs—

(1) Why has the Government sought to privatise visa services.

The message on the Migration South Australia website states:

"Immigration SA would like to advise that applications for state nominations will be open on the Immigration SA Apply website from midday (12pm) on Wednesday 3 July 2019."

Source: https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/news-events/news-releases/updated-gsm-application-system