Australian Immigration Daily News

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.

Does a person who has been taken into immigration detention have any right to demand that he/she be held at a particular place of detention pending the resolution of a request that the cancellation of his or her visa be revoked?

For example, if a person has been living in Tasmania, does that person have a right to be held in detention in Tasmania, in order to be closer to the person’s family and legal representatives?

Or can the person be detained elsewhere?

Can the manner in which the Australian government wields the power of visa cancellation be fairly described as being harsh, cruel, disproportionate, unforgiving and indeed mindless?

You be the judge after you consider a case that was decided late last week by Justice Markovic of the Federal Court, Kemp v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) FCA 1109 (27 July 2018).

Perhaps at first blush you might consider that this visa holder, a New Zealand citizen in Australia as the holder of a Special Category Subclass 444 visa, “deserved” to have his visa cancelled.