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For Allianz Global Assistance OSHC students who need to access their e-membership card, find a doctor, contact a dedicated Member Services team, or make a claim, they can do so through the My OSHC Assistant app—at any time of the day, no matter where they are.

On the app, your student clients can:

  • Find a Doctor nearby, searching by gender and languages spoken – AGA has a network of over 900 Direct Billing Medical Providers!
  • Immediately access their e-membership card
  • Update their OSHC account details
  • Make a claim

Encourage your students to download the My OSHC Assistant app with every AGA OSHC purchase.  

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MARA CPD Requirements
The legal requirements for RMA annual re-registration

To renew your registration as a migration agent under the Migration Act, you must complete CPD activities worth a combined total of at least 10 points in the 12 months before you apply to re-register, unless you are the holder of an Australian legal practising certificate. Effective 1 January 2018, migration CPD points breakdown is as follows:

CPD Points CPD Activity How We Can Help

  1
Category A / B
Mandatory
Ethics and Professional Practice, or Understanding the Code of Conduct
Included in 1 day 10 CPD point face-to-face workshopsonline 10 CPD point webinar workshops and as single-subject webinar workshop CPDs and in our Distance Learning.
  5
Category A
Compulsory
Complete a minimum of 5 Category A CPD Activities
Available in 1 day 10 CPD point face-to-face workshopsonline 10 CPD point webinar workshops and as single-subject webinar workshop CPDs.
  4
Category A / B
Elective or Compulsory
Complete a mix of any Category A or B Activities to make up the balance.
Available in Distance Learning1 day 10 CPD point face-to-face workshopsonline 10 CPD point webinar workshopsOnline Seminars, and as single-subject webinar workshop CPDs.

= 10
1 Mandatory
5 Compulsory
4 Elective or Compulsory
 

This graph has been produced by LTA and is copyright.

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We wanted to get in touch to let you know how our partnership with TorFX can benefit both you and your clients.

As a multi award-winning provider of international currency transfer services, TorFX has been helping individuals and businesses save time and money since 2004.

If your clients are buying/selling foreign real estate, emigrating, dealing with import/export payments or sending money to family based overseas, TorFX can help.

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The following State Governments will be delivering information sessions with Legal Training Australia in the months of February and March 2019.  The public are welcome to attend these online webinars.  To attend as a public viewer please Register as a Public Student on this page (third button on the right).  To register as Migration Agent or Lawyer please click here.

Once you have Registered with our website you can then book your seat to the online webinars here.

NSW State Government Business and Skilled Migration Information Session 14 March 12pm
 
Presented by Ross Ahmadzai and Zane Rebronja, Senior Manager, Business & Skilled Migration, NSW Department of Industry.
An overview of the NSW Government's two Skilled Programs (190 / 489), and the Business and Investor streams.
 
QLD State Government Business and Skilled Migration Information Session 28 February 12pm
 
Marney Richardson, Senior Project Officer & Lin Han, Principal Project Officer from Business and Skilled Migration Queensland (BSMQ) will provide in-depth presentation on Queensland business and skilled nomination criteria, and the process from EOI to invitation and nomination. Visa subclasses covered will include the business visas: 132, 188, 888 and skilled visas 190 and 489. The focus will be on how to put together a decision ready nomination application, and common issues in applications and how to avoid them. A summary and recap will be provided by Ross Ahmadzai.
 
SA State Government Business and Skilled Migration Information Session 5 March 12pm
 
A presentation by Rachel Ireland (General Skilled Migration), Phillip Griffoni (Business Migration) and Dianne Casale (Skilled Arrival Services) from Immigration South Australia, Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment. This presentation will cover 'Supporting Innovation in South Australia" (SISA).
 
The Victorian, Tasmanian, and Western Australian governments have also been invited, so there may be additional State Governments participating shortly.  Further news will be published here and via migration agent news blasts.
 
Each session attracts 1 Category B CPD point for migration agents.
 
To book, please click here.
 

 

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New Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) analysis shows that in 2016 half of the 1.5 million temporary residents in Australia were living in Sydney (27 per cent) and Melbourne (24 per cent) with a further 14 per cent calling Brisbane home.

ABS Director of Migration Statistics, Myles Burleigh, said for the first time detailed social and economic characteristics of temporary residents in Australia have been made available through the 2016 Australian Census and Temporary Entrants Integrated Dataset (ACTEID).

“By combining 2016 Census data and temporary visa information from the Department of Home Affairs, we now have a comprehensive picture of where groups of temporary residents live, the countries they come from, what work they do, what they earn and if they are studying,” he said.

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