Australian Immigration Daily News

Do you remember the curious and unusual case of Guder v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2017) FCCA 626?

That was a case that highlighted an unusual aspect of the regulations relating to the now-repealed 457 visa program: namely, that the legislative instrument relevant to the English language proficiency requirement for the grant of 457 visas, IMMI 15/028, was written in terms that provided that an applicant had 3 years from the date of the lodgment of the application to satisfy the requirement.

The legislative instrument struck me as being somewhat “counter-intuitive”, in that one would have thought that having a satisfactory level of proficiency in English would be a “time of application” requirement.

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On 8 May 2018, the legislation that will introduce changes to the "training contributions" that employers who sponsor visas for skilled workers - the "Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Charges Bill 2017 - finally passed both houses of Parliament. 

The legislation will come into force on a day that it receives "royal assent" - presumably very soon!

The text of the legislation can be read by clicking here.

Who is a “dependent child” within the meaning of the Migration Regulations?

This might seem to be a somewhat “obscure” or “arcane” question.

But it is an important one for parents who are seeking to get a “child” visa (Subclass 802) for an “adult child”- one who has turned 18.