Australian Immigration Daily News

Over the course of building an organization for education consulting, under the leadership of GD Singh, CEO of Apply4Study, the team members of Apply4Study have always strived to serve the best interests of our valued clients and industry associates to the best of our abilities. Our client testimonials and reviews stand to prove the same. Due to an aim of providing high level of satisfaction to our clients and associates, Apply4Study has on multiple occasions seen many wonderful days.

Jane Campbell, Vice President , Corporate Strategy and Development, Apply 4 Study has played an important role in getting new association and side by side building up company’s inner strength via continuous organizational development initiatives.

However, of the umpteen occasions, the first months 2019-2020 have been extremely special for the Apply4Study family, due to the following reasons: 

The TOEFL® program will now deliver scores faster than ever before. From 26 October, clients who take a TOEFL iBT® test can view their scores online approximately 6 days after the test date, nearly half of the previous 10-day turnaround. Once the score is available online for the client, it can be verified by accepting organisations. 

In addition, the required waiting period between TOEFL iBT tests has been reduced to 3 days.  This allows testing on consecutive weekends, as available dates permit. 

Both of these changes make the test more convenient for your clients and help them meet urgent deadlines. Learn more about these changes, and all of the recent enhancements that are part of the better TOEFL iBT test experience, at www.ets.org/toefl/better_test_experience. 

Minister for Regional Services, Decentralisation and Local Government, Mark Coulton has welcomed an announcement to expand Work and Holiday visa arrangements for young Thai nationals, saying it will help satisfy serious workforce demand in regional areas.

“By expanding this successful programme to more young people we are helping regional areas access the workforce they need to produce and grow their economies,” Minister Coulton said.

“This is another example of the Coalition Government delivering improved economic opportunities to regional Australia and ties in with our focus on decentralising government and the economy."

Source: Regional-Australia-to-benefit-from-visa-expansion-1.pdf

The purpose of the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) is to amend the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations) and the Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016 (the Citizenship Regulation).

Schedule 1 makes routine amendments to the Citizenship Regulation to incorporate instruments made under the Migration Regulations updating the places and currencies in which citizenship application fees may be paid and the relevant exchange rates.

Schedule 2 amends the Migration Regulations to increase certain visa application charges (VACs) for the Temporary Protection and Safe Haven Enterprise visas in line with the 2019-20 forecast consumer price index (CPI) and the one-off Visa Application Charge – uplift measure in the 2019-20 Budget. The relevant VACs are increased by $5, from $35 to $40.

The Global Talent Independent program, or GTI, represents a new way of approaching highly skilled immigration to Australia.

This year, we will be reducing our annual permanent migration cap from 190,000 to 160,000. But within that cap, we will be sharpening the emphasis on highly skilled immigration. The Global Talent Independent programme has been allocated up to 5,000 places within our annual programme. Over time, it has the potential to have a transformative impact on the Australian economy. Let’s be clear: we have very big ambitions for the GTI. The GTI has one key goal: 

• To help build our future prosperity, by attracting to Australia the world’s most highly skilled  people in the world’s highest growth industries  

Through the program we will seek out and recruit highly skilled and talented individuals from around the globe - offering them a streamlined, priority visa pathway to work and live permanently in Australia. We are being deliberately aggressive in this policy area, and will be investing around $13 million over the next three years on its execution.