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The Category B CPD myth
There is a myth circulating in the migration profession that migration agents need to do 5 Category B CPD points in a registration year.
This is not the case.
Here is the reality:
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NSW: Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491)
Migration Alliance has received the following email update from the NSW government, "Live and Work in NSW":
2020-21 Financial Year Update
The NSW Government’s limited number of interim nomination places for the 2020–21 financial year have been exhausted.
We are currently awaiting confirmation of an additional allocation of places from the Home Affairs for the remainder of the financial year.
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Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2020 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020
These amendments are inserted by Schedule 1 and Division 3 of Schedule 5 to the Amendment Regulations.
The Working Holiday Maker (WHM) program consists of two visa Subclasses, the Working Holiday (Subclass 417) visa and the Work and Holiday (Subclass 462) visa (WHM visas). The key differences between the two visas are that Subclass 462 (Work and Holiday) visa arrangements generally have caps on the number of visas granted annually (except for the United States of America) and may include additional eligibility requirements such as a minimum education level, English language proficiency or letters of support from a partner country Government. Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa arrangements are uncapped with no limit on the annual number of visa grants.
Source: HA-LA-Measures-2-Reg-2020.pdf and HA-LA-Measures-2-Reg-2020-Explanatory-Memorandum.pdf
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Federal Court Cases - Migration Law - 12 November 2020
| BJO18 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCAFC 189 Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia Murphy, O'Callaghan & Snaden JJ Migration law - Minister's delegate refused to grant appellant a Temporary Protection (Class XD) (subclass 785) visa - Immigration Assessment Authority affirmed delegate's decision - Judge Mercuri of Federal Circuit Court dismissed judicial review application - whether erroneous failure to find Authority engaged in 'irrational or illogical reasoning' in findings concerning credibility of appellant - 'high degree of caution' required before finding jurisdictional arising from 'adverse credit findings' - whether erroneous failure to undertake 'appropriate predictive exercise' in making decision whether there was 'real chance' appellant would 'suffer serious harm if returned to Pakistan' - whether inadequacy of reasons - held: appeal dismissed. BJO18 |
| CJE19 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCA 1620 Federal Court of Australia Beach J Migration law - Minister's delegate refused to grant appellant a Temporary Protection visa - Immigration Assessment Authority affirmed delegate's decision - Judge Street of Federal Circuit Court dismissed judicial review application - whether Authority's finding that appellant 'would return to Karbala' irrational - whether finding 'inconsistent with other findings' - whether finding reached without properly considering applicant's reasons for relocation - whether failure to give 'proper contextual consideration' to appellant's evidence - whether 'illogicality or irrationality' - whether Authority unreasonable in failing 'to exercise or consider exercising' power under s473DC(3) Migration Act 1958 (Cth) 'to interview or get new information from' appellant concerning place he would return to - held: Authority unreasonably failed to consider exercising power under s473DC(3) Migration Act, or alternatively failed to exercise it - failure was material - appeal allowed. CJE19 |
Source: Benchmark
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Breaking news is free at Migration Alliance: You don't need a subscription!
Migration Agents should probably be made aware that any organisation producing breaking news in this profession subscribes to the same news-monitoring services as Migration Alliance. Migration Alliance subscribes to Capital Monitoring by LexisNexis which sends us emails each time a Bill, Amendment or other sort of immigration matter is coming out of Canberra.
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Before you pay any organisation a subscription fee for a news service, please keep in mind that all the relevant news is actually available on this website for FREE! If it is not on this website then it is probably not worth bothering to read, as it is usually going to be extra news for 'news sake'.
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