Australian Immigration Daily News

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Once a year Bupa reviews its premiums and benefits in line with industry standards to ensure your customers are getting great value from their cover. We have improved our Overseas Visitor Health Cover brochure to keep it simple and easy for our customers to understand. We’ve also included a full table of benefits so your customers can see exactly what they’re getting from their cover. Please click on the link below to find our latest Overseas Visitor Health Cover brochure for Working and Non-Working visas, applicable from 1st of April 2015.

http://www.bupa.com.au/staticfiles/BupaP3/pdfs/10306-OVC-Brochure-Important-Information-Guide.pdf

Please take some time to review these changes and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your Bupa representative.

A message has been received from, Innovation, Trade and Investment, Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorat, as follows:

"As of 5 pm AEST tomorrow Friday 3 April 2015, the ACT is closing applications for the Skilled Nominated Visa (190)  from all overseas residents due to reaching our 2014-15 numbers . The ACT Government  will continue to process applications from ACT residents.

Acceptance of overseas applications,  will recommence on 1 July 2015."

Changes – updated 26 Mar 2015: http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L00351

Explanatory: http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L00351/Explanatory%20Statement/Text

457 recommendation – government response – updated 18 Mar 2015: http://www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Pages/reviews-and-inquiries/government-response.aspx