Australian Immigration Daily News

The following email was received today:

NSW Business and Skilled Migration Skilled is close to filling its interim allocation of nomination positions for the 2020-21 program year provided by the Department of Home Affairs.

Following the Commonwealth Government’s announcement of the annual migration program planning levels, an additional provision of nomination positions for the reminder of the year may become available in the coming weeks.

Further information will be provided on our website once the allocation of nomination positions has been finalised.  

Skilled migration

NSW will continue to operate an expression of interest and invitation model to address NSW’s skill needs.

Under direction from Home Affairs, NSW will continue to priorities applicants with skills to support NSW economic recovery and public health response.

Below is a discussion in Parliament yesterday which migration agents might find interesting:

Partner-Visas----House-of-Reps-20-Oct-2020.pdf

Below is the 2019-2020 Annual Report for the Department of Home Affairs:

Department-of-Home-Affairs-Annual-Report.pdf

The instrument operates to approve the values statement for the subclasses of visas specified in the instrument. Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the instrument is approved as the values statement for all subclasses of visas specified in tables 1 and 2 of Schedule 1. Both Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 combined are approved as the values statement for subclasses of permanent visas specified in table 2 of Schedule 1.

Source: LIN20166.pdf and LIN20166-explanatory-statement.pdf

14 OCT 2020: HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA HCA: Judgment Summary - AUS17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor [2020] HCA 37 - h201014927.pdf 

14 OCT 2020: HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA HCA: AUS17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor [2020] HCA 37 - Catchwords: Immigration - Refugees - Application for protection visa - Immigration Assessment Authority ("Authority") - h201014931.pdf 

14 OCT 2020: HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA HCA: Judgment Summary - The Queen v Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif [2020] HCA 36 - h201014928.pdf