Australian Immigration Daily News

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has shut down an elaborate contrived marriages syndicate operating out of Sydney.

A 32-year-old Indian national faced court on 30 October over his alleged role as the main facilitator.

A further four Australian citizens have also been charged for allegedly convincing individuals to fraudulently marry non-citizens seeking to obtain permanent residency.

Subregulation 2.07(5) - Migration Regulations 1994

The purpose of the instrument is to increase the eligible age range for Canadian and Irish applicants for the Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa, from an upper age limit of 30 to 35.

Source:

Subsection 140GBA(2) - Migration Act 1958

The purpose of the instrument is to give domestic effect to Australia’s obligations under international trade agreements, to which it is a party, for the purposes of labour market testing.

The instrument differs from the previous instrument IMMI 17/109 as it includes the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11).

Conservative Party leader Cory Bernardi has been calling for the government to clean up the visa system to stop these kind of rip-off rorts.

A practice called "student recycling" has emerged as one of the rorts used by unscrupulous education visa agents and registered training organisations in the troubled vocational education sector.

Conservative Party leader Cory Bernardi has been calling for the government to clean up the visa system to stop these kind of rip-off rorts.

This visa allows overseas nationals to establish a new or develop an existing business in Australia. The visa comprises of two streams:

• Significant Business History stream: for high-calibre business owners or part-owners who want to do business in Australia
• Venture Capital Entrepreneur stream: for people who have sourced venture capital funding from a member of the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL).

Before an intending migrant can apply for a subclass 132 visa, an applicant must receive an invitation to apply in the Significant Business History stream or the Venture Capital Entrepreneur stream.

An invitation is sent to the intending migrant if they have been successful in meeting the initial threshold criteria required in the SkillSelect Expression of Interest (EoI) for the Business Talent visa. Intending migrants will receive their invitation to apply for a Business Talent Visa via SkillSelect