Australian Immigration Daily News

The NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List for the 2018–19 financial year is published below. The NSW government will continue to select and invite top ranking candidates in occupations on the NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List (NSW 190 List).  They will select and invite candidates on an ongoing basis throughout the financial year. There are no key dates involved in this process.

The NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List (NSW 190 List) contains the priority occupations that NSW will invite candidates under for nomination for a skilled nominated visa (subclass 190).

NSW-Priority-skilled-occupation-list-2018-19.pdf

The following information has been received from TAFE NSW:

We are pleased to announce that our payment form has been updated and is now hosted at its new home on TAFE NSW’s website: 

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Australian Skilled Visas August Update – Migration Alliance Summary

The Department of Immigration introduced several changes to skilled visas as part of 1 July changes. At this stage no changes to the skilled occupation list have been announcedalthough the list is currently being reviewed. Below is a summary prepared by Migration Alliance.

1. GTS Update
Home Affairs confirmed that the very first GTS agreement is now in place and the pilot will continue to run for approximately 12 months. For full summary of the GTS visa as well as eligibility requirements visit our recent article:

There are upcoming changes to the skilled visa programs for the second half of 2018.

This includes the 1 July 2018 implementation of:

A new Australian Government service centre within Datacom's customer care and IT Hub in Modbury, South Australia, was officially opened today by the Federal Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge and South Australia’s Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment David Ridgway.

The service centre opening is part of today's launch of global IT Services company Datacom’s facility in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. The Australian Government service will service local and overseas callers about visa, citizenship and travel or trade enquiries.

This transition will enable Home Affairs staff to focus on high-value, complex decision-making across immigration, citizenship and trade facilitation programs.