Australian Immigration Daily News

We have received the following email:

We regret to advise that RDA NORTHERN INLAND is no longer a Regional Certifying Body for the 491 SKILLED WORK REGIONAL (PROVISIONAL) VISA.

For all enquiries in relation to the NSW Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) subclass 491 visa please contact:

Immigration Minister, David Coleman MP has written a letter to the President of the Senate stating the following:

In accordance with Order for production of Documents- Financial Reports (356) moved by Senator Keneally and passed by the Senate on 5 December 2019, I advise that the documents ordered for production are available at; https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visa-statistics/visit https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visastatistics/l ive/m ig ration-program (NB this link doesn't work)

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visa-statistics/work

Do you ever handle student visa applications?

If you do, then you need to know about the recent decision of the Full Court in the case of Inderjit v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs (2019) FCAFC 217.

This decision addressed an important question involving the Genuine Temporary Entrant criterion:

Migration Newsletter 755 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration_Newsletter_755.pdf

It has been brought to our attention within a private Facebook group (Capstone Exam Study Group), that decision records from the Office of the MARA are starting to require sanctioned migration agents to pass the Capstone.  The earliest decision record which contained this requirement is reported to be from 2018.  The decision record contains the following sentence:

"Agent has passed the Capstone assessment offered by The College of Law (Limited) to assess the Agent’s ability to meet the Occupational Competency Standards for Registered Migration Agents"

Thank you, Ira Rodriguez for bringing this to the attention of the migration agent profession.