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The following news is just in from Victoria:
We are pleased to advise that Victoria will begin issuing invitations and assessing nomination applications for affected business and investor visa subclasses from
18 February 2019.
Please note that an Expression of Interest (EOI) process will be introduced for the following visas:
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In a report released today, The Business Council of Australia recommends:
The ‘ceiling’ for the permanent migration intake should remain at 190,000 per annum in 2019-20, with 128,550 places reserved for skilled migrants and the remainder for the family stream.
Consider setting the ceiling of 190,000 per annum for the next three years – 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 – to provide business, governments and the community with greater certainty about the future intake and to support better long term planning for growth
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The following Migration Newsletter 713 for February 2019, produced by Lewis & Bollard makes excellent reading:
Invitation rounds for Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) and Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489) visas will be run once a month.
The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 11 December 2018.
| Visa subclass | Number |
|---|---|
| Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) | 2,490 |
| Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489) | 10 |
| Occupation ID | Description | Minimum points score | Date of effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2211 | Accountants | 80 | 18/08/2018 11:27 pm |
| 2212 | Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers | 80 | 8/06/2018 3:11 pm |
| 2334 | Electronics Engineer | 75 | 18/11/2018 2:40 am |
| 2335 | Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers | 70 | 22/06/2018 9:55 pm |
| 2339 | Other Engineering Professionals | 75 | 13/10/2018 12:10 am |
| 2611 | ICT Business and System Analysts | 75 | 18/09/2018 11:49 pm |
| 2613 | Software and Applications Programmers | 70 | 1/04/2017 3 pm |
| 2631 | Computer Network Professionals | 70 | 30/08/2018 12:16 pm |
The number of intending migrants who received nominations from State and Territory Governments from 1 July 2018 to the end of November 2018 is shown in the following table:
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