Australian Immigration Daily News

The MIA Board has appointed the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as the Returning Officer for this year's elections. The MIA has previously used the AEC to hold its elections until they were able to hold their elections online.  In their recent newsletter they say:

"This MIA election will be returning to the postal vote system under the management of the AEC Returning Officer."

The MIA have provided the a schedule of events for this year's elections, which is outlined in the table below.

Why the 'United Profession' Ticket?

Migration Alliance has a membership of just over 4200 RMAs.  There are approximately 5200 RMAs in the profession.  Migration Alliance and the MIA therefore have a huge number of members in common.  We call these overlapping members.  

Migration Alliance proposes to promote and endorse joint MIA / MA members on a 'unity' ticket.  By this we would like to see a unified profession, where members of the MIA board, who are both MIA and MA members, find a way to bring the two organisations together, and to work collaboratively in the best interest of the whole profession.

We believe that this can be done by supporting joint MIA/MA members onto State President and committee positions and hence, onto the MIA national executive.  That way, we have representatives on the MIA board who can advocate and agitate for the profession as a whole.

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Migration Alliance and Expat Advisors Community

Welcome to the Victorian Government's Agent Alert for migration agents and representatives.

In this edition:

• Changes to the Victorian State Nomination Occupation Lists
• Assessment processing times
• SkillSelect changes – lodge directly with Victoria
• Business Migration Updates
  • Demonstrating economic benefit for Victorian business visa nomination
  • Significant Investor visa nomination application form update
  • Export business activity and economic benefit to Victoria
  • Additional business or investment activity requirements for Business Investor visa
  • Change of business activity.

  Changes to the Victorian State Nomination Occupation list

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Partnering with Migration Alliance, our national SIV road show continues with Brisbane on Wednesday 7^th October. The event will showcase NAB’s integrated banking and investment solutions to meet the needs of your Significant Investor Visa clients.

Speakers include Greg McKean from QLD Trade and Investment, NAB’s SIV Concierge team of migrant banking and wealth professionals, and a local venture capital manager.

You will also meet investment specialists from NAB Asset Management and JB Were who make up NAB’s SIV Complying portfolio blends covering Australian small companies, corporate fixed interest and property securities.

This initiative is spearheaded by Mark Glazbrook, RMA, who has sent the following email to Migration Alliance.  We support Mark's initiative and provide a copy (with permission) of Mark's email below.  Please contact Mark directly should you wish to contribute.

Currently I am trying to raise $30-$35K from interested groups towards getting economic research undertaken into the net economic benefits that can be achieved in SA through the introduction of an economic migration program.  This is focused on SA as this is the local economy that I know very well.  The overall plan would be based nationally to eligible jurisdictions.

These are a couple of recent media releases from Nick Xenophon about Nick and Jacqui Lambie introducing a private members bill and some of the work I have been doing with him.