Australian Immigration Daily News

The Migration Amendment (Repairing Medical Transfers) Bill 2019 (the Bill) amends the Migration Act 1958 (the Migration Act) to repeal the provisions inserted by Schedule 6 to the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2019 (the medical transfer provisions).

As the medical transfer provisions do not provide for any return or removal mechanism, the Bill also amends the Migration Act to extend existing powers in relation to persons transferred to Australia under the medical transfer provisions to allow for their removal from Australia or return to a regional processing country once they no longer need to be in Australia for the temporary purpose for which they were brought.

Source: Migration-Amendment-Repairing-Medical-Transfers-Bill-2019.pdf

and Migration-Amendment-Repairing-Medical-Transfers-Bill-2019-Explanatory-Memorandum.pdf

Today, Orana RDA has made the following announcements:

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

July 4th 2019 8:40am – CLOSED until 1 August 2019, if you have genuine full time employment in a related role in the Orana region please contact us.

As many of your clients will need to move money abroad to fund aspects of their migration, we’ve partnered with TorFX so you can help them save time and money.

Launching the partnership at an event last month, TorFX Strategic Partnership Manager, Nathan Bray spoke of the advantages the partnership can bring:

What will this mean for your clients?

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.