Australian Immigration Daily News

Migration Alliance is in receipt of an email from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal's Deputy President, Migration & Refugee Division Head, regarding the new Practitioner guide to virtual hearings using Microsoft Teams.  The Practitioner Guide is available on the AAT's website.

To assist practitioners, the Practitioner Guide has been developed to provide information on virtual hearings and the Tribunal’s expectations of participants.

The guide provides a list of technical requirements for a video hearing, and incorporates a visual guide for connecting to the virtual hearing through a variety of platforms.

The following email has just been received from the Victoria State Government:

Victoria's skilled visa nomination program is now closed as we have filled the places provided to us by the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs for the 2019-20 program year.

This includes both the Skilled Nominated (Permanent) visa (subclass 190) and the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491).

The purpose of this instrument is to amend a drafting error in the repealed instrument LIN 19/186 that added Form 1008 (Internet) as an approved form for a Bridging A (Class WA) visa and removed Form 1008 (Internet) as an approved form for an application for a Bridging E (Class WE) visa.

LIN 20/068 ensures Form 1008 (Internet) is an approved form for a Bridging E (Class WE) visa where an applicant does not have another pending application for a Bridging E (Class WE) visa. This enables a valid Bridging E (Class WE) visa application to be made.

The instrument replicates all other arrangements from LIN 19/186.

Source: https://benchmarkinc.com.au/web/

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