Australian Immigration Daily News

For those of us who are familiar with the subclass 189/489 visa programme, 11^th day of each month marks a significant milestone as invitations are sent to potential applicants, giving an opportunity to lodge an application for a subclass 189/489 visa.

Contrary to popular beliefs, invitations are auto-generated with no manual intervention (a hint lies in the fact that invitations are generally received during odd hours of the night!).  To those who received their invitation earlier this week, a big congratulations and all the best with your visa application.  To those who are yet to receive an invitation, let’s look at what we can do to improve your chances of receiving an invitation on the 11th of January.

When exploring independent skilled migration, I use the method called the “control test”.  This means, looking at your points and categories where these points are placed then subsequently determining whether the category is something that you can or cannot control.  To give you a clearer example, our age is something that we cannot control therefore our points will naturally go up or down depending on where we are placed in the biological timeline.  Once we eliminate the categories that cannot control, we can start focusing on categories which are within our control.

Imagine this scenario....Your client made an application for a 457 before 17 April 2017 and it was refused and you are on appeal at the AAT.

The substantive issue was an assertion by DOHA that the position was not genuine.

However, you are now at the AAT and you are winning on the genuine position issue and then the Tribunal ambushes you by saying words to the effect, '...however, notwithstanding that the subject position is genuine it is subject to a caveat and you do not meet that requirement."

A recent article gives us some insight as to what might be driving the "population" debate.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/20/scott-morrison-flags-cutting-migration-in-response-to-population-concerns.

You can read the article ( hyperlink above) but this is what leapt out at me...

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA 

Vidiyala v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1973

A recent decision of the Full Federal Court (sitting as a single judge)by His Honour Perry J, on an appeal from the Court below (the FCC) made some interesting observations about what the Court does in review which may be of interest to practitioners....

Although it may be this time of year but I am getting a lot of enquiries about processing times for RRVs.

Apparently 90 percent of the applications are cleared in about 2 months but where the applicant does not meet the residence requirement it is now about 3 months.

My advice.....