Australian Immigration Daily News

The Australian Government is introducing new measures to help religious institutions access the skills they need.

Changes to the Minister of Religion Labour Agreement settings will allow religious institutions to sponsor overseas workers under the additional occupation of 'Religious Assistant'.

This broadens visa sponsorship options which were formerly limited to the occupation of 'Minister of Religion'.

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The Group of Eight (Go8), as Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its members in the world’s top 100 universities, welcomes the announcement that Australia has today signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) with Indonesia.

In 2016, the Go8 recommended to DFAT that the agreement include provisions allowing the universities of both countries to establish campuses offshore. This has been partly met, with the agreement incorporating future liberalisation measures for Australian universities seeking to operate in Indonesia.

Go8 universities hosted around 4,790 enrolments from Indonesian nationals in 2018, including half (50%) of those who came to Australia to undertake a research degree.

On 1 March 2019, Minister Coleman announced that applications to sponsor a parent for a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa will be open from 17 April 2019.

We previously ran the announcement of this story on this blog here.

The legislation tied to this new visa which allows sponsors to bring their parents to Australia for longer periods was passed in November last year.