Australian Immigration Daily News

There are upcoming changes to the skilled visa programs for the second half of 2018.

This includes the 1 July 2018 implementation of:

A new Australian Government service centre within Datacom's customer care and IT Hub in Modbury, South Australia, was officially opened today by the Federal Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge and South Australia’s Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment David Ridgway.

The service centre opening is part of today's launch of global IT Services company Datacom’s facility in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. The Australian Government service will service local and overseas callers about visa, citizenship and travel or trade enquiries.

This transition will enable Home Affairs staff to focus on high-value, complex decision-making across immigration, citizenship and trade facilitation programs.

The Conservative Party opposes Australia signing up to the international pact which would weaken our sovereignty and relinquish significant control of Australia's borders over to unelected and unaccountable United Nations bureaucrats.

The debate over the UN migration pact comes as Sunday 29 July marks the 10th anniversary of the Rudd government dismantling the successful Howard government 'Pacific Solution', commemorated with the Conservative Party's Action Plan.

The key UN migration agency involved in the pact said it was yet to be told of a change in the government’s position since Australia helped negotiate the deal.

Source: PM-refuses-to-rule-out-UN-deal-on-migration.pdf

A 61-year-old Australian man who was travelling from Melbourne to the Philippines on Wednesday 25 July has been arrested and charged after he was found with child exploitation material on his mobile phone.

Australian Border Force (ABF) officers stopped the man before his departure, as he was suspected of purchasing online child exploitation material from the Philippines. During an examination of his mobile phone, officers allegedly found multiple photographs of a sexual nature involving persons under the age of 18.

Acting ABF Regional Commander Victoria Ranjeev Maharaj said the arrest reflected the ABF’s commitment to preventing the transmission and use of this material.

Servcorp hosted a group of Migration Alliance members at their North Sydney offices for a networking evening on the 25th of July.  Headed up by RMA, Svetlana Gunaratne, the evening was a lovely occasion and included food and drinks for migration agents.

Stand by for our next networking evening.