Australian Immigration Daily News

The number of migrants becoming Australian citizens continues to rise, with an 83 per cent increase in citizenship applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 compared with the same period last year.

Between July and December 2018, almost 73,000 citizenship applications were finalised. This is compared to almost 40,000 during the same period in 2017.  

"Australia Day is by far the most popular day to become a citizen and we are expecting more than 16,200 people to participate in ceremonies on Australia Day this year," Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman said.

BSMQ will issue business nomination invitations to selected visa subclasses on Friday 25 January 2019 until additional nomination quota has been filled. These visa subclasses include:

• 132A Business Talent visa (Permanent) – Significant Business History stream (excluding applications with an intention to invest in residential property development businesses in Brisbane and Gold Coast)
• 188B – Business Innovation and Investment visa (Provisional) – Investor Stream
• 188C – Business Innovation and Investment visa (Provisional) – Significant Investor Stream.

BSMQ will start processing expressions of interest (EOIs) which were lodged after 2 January 2019 in the above visa categories and will consider reopening 188A – Business Innovation and Investment Visa (Provisional) – Innovation Stream on a case-by-case basis.

The following conditions apply: 

ACE Testing Hub, a TOEFL Market Ambassador, is offering registered migration agents in Australia the opportunity to sell TOEFL test vouchers. Authorised agents can place a link to the ACE TOEFL Voucher site on their website and collect commission on any successful purchases of TOEFL vouchers, as well as obtain new leads for their agency services.

This collaboration between ETS and ACE Testing Hub makes TOEFL the most competitively priced English test in Australia at $306 per test voucher.  Contact Jake Foster at ACE Testing Hub at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 0417 990 079 for more information.

TOEFL iBT test centres are conveniently located in major cities across Australia including Adelaide, Brisbane, Jimboomba, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. 

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has constructed statistics on the personal income of permanent migrants.

The Personal Income Tax and Migrants Integrated Dataset (PITMID) was created by linking administrative data on permanent migrants to Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Personal Income Tax records.

The permanent migrant data was compiled by the Australian Government from various departmental systems and a number of external sources, including the Department of Home Affairs and Department of Human Services (Medicare Australia).

Below is the latest AAT Bulletin for 21 January 2019.  It contains the latest Citizenship and Migration Review decisions.

It is recommended that this bulletin and its contents be read online.

Source: http://www.aat.gov.au/AAT/media/AAT/Files/AAT%20Bulletins/03-19.pdf