Australian Immigration Daily News

As per the below announcement from Austrade, we now have confirmation of the new SIV investment regime effective 1 July, 2015. On initial review of the draft options and final frameworks documents (attached) the main differences are: 

-          the Venture Capital  has been reduced to $500k although may rise to $1M within 2 years. Have addressed the “uncalled capital” question by having the remainder of the committed funds held in escrow in a Cash Management Trust or Australian bank account as security for a bank guarantee in favour of the Venture Capital fund

-          Emerging companies still $1.5M although allowing up to 10% in foreign companies i.e. New Zealand (this may mean we have additional group product that meets the requirements)

By Michael Jeremy RMA

The Aid Industry and Humanitarian Organisations need to be mindful that the rest of the world does drift into "misery overload". There probably is an unprecedented number of catastrophes impacting populations that result in forced or necessary movements. This then results in increased "humanitarian need" etc around the globe.

In the past few years some of the better know hotspots are: Syria, Ebola, Eritrea, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Vanuatu, Nepal and the list goes on.

The following email is from the ACS:

The ACS is committed to providing a high level of service to Registered Migration Agents and recommends applicants consult migration agents to acquire a thorough understanding of the entire migration process and not just the skill assessment aspect.

In order to provide further assistance to agents, we have created a specific set of Frequently Asked Questions (attached) and a guide on using the ACS Agent Dashboard. 

The Bupa Health Kiosk will be visiting:

Date: 20 May 2015

Time: 10:00AM - 2:00PM

If your clients are taking the TOEFL iBT® test to meet the English-language requirements for their skilled migration or other visa, registration is easy!

Test takers just need to go to www.toeflgoanywhere.org and click the “Register Now” link. They will be able to create a TOEFL iBT account, select their test date and location, and submit payment.

It’s very important for test takers to check the identification requirements before they register. Only certain forms of ID are accepted, and the ID information listed in their account needs to exactly match the ID that they present at the test centre on test day. Test takers can be turned away at the test centre if the information (especially their name) does not match EXACTLY.