Australian Immigration Daily News

The Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Parent Visa and Other Measures) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) amend the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations) to: 

- establish a new family sponsorship framework, as provided for by the Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2018, and create a new class of family sponsor called a 'parent sponsor' 
- create a new Subclass 870 (Sponsored Parent (Temporary)) visa (a Temporary Sponsored Parent visa) for the parents of Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and eligible New Zealand citizens; 
- create a new defined term, 'outstanding public health debt', which relates to debts for medical and aged care expenses, which have been appropriately notified to the Department of Home Affairs: 
        o the parent sponsor, their spouse or de facto partner, and their sponsored parent(s) must not have an outstanding public health debt, or they must have made appropriate arrangements to pay any such debt; and 
- clarify requirements for certain temporary visa holders to maintain adequate health insurance in Australia.

 Source: Migration-Amendment-Temporary-Sponsored-Parent-Visa-and-Other-Measures-Regulations-2019---Explanatory-Statement.pdf

The following table summarises the amount of the charge that apply: 

Businesses in Victoria's Great South Coast region will receive the boost they need with the Morrison Government finalising a Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) with Warrnambool City Council.

The Great South Coast joins the Northern Territory, South Australia, Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Orana among the first regions in Australia to enter a five-year agreement enabling designated regions to respond to their unique workforce shortages.

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, David Coleman said the Federal Government is working to address the skills needs of regional Australia.

Manner for an approved family sponsor to give information to Immigration when certain events occur

5  Manner to provide information to Immigration

For the purposes of paragraph 2.87CD(1)(b), the specified manner in which an approved family sponsor is to give details to Immigration of events mentioned in subregulation 2.87CD(2), is through the sponsor’s online ImmiAccount.

In 2018, there were 7.3 million migrants living in Australia. This was 29% of the population that were born overseas. One year earlier, in 2017, there were 7.1 million people born overseas.

Every single country from around the world was represented in Australia's population in 2018. People born in:

England (992,000) continue to be the largest group of overseas-born living in Australia. However, this has dropped from a peak of just over a million (1,013,000 people) in 2013

China (651,000) remained in second place from 2017 with strong growth since 2002

India (592,000) moved into third place dropping the New Zealand born (568,000) down to fourth place

Australia (17.7 million) had increased 188,000 during the year.

Source: ABS-Migration-Australia-2017-18.pdf