Australian Immigration Daily News

The Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa in the Regional Provisional Stream is the pathway to permanent residence for eligible holders of the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491) and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) (subclass 494) visas. 

Please be advised that there is no minimum income requirement for the Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa (subclass 191), as there is no legislative instrument in place specifying a minimum income threshold for this visa. 

Primary applicants must provide notices of assessment issued by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) for three income years out of the five years of their eligible visa.  Primary applicants who have already lodged should check and ensure their application provides these three notices. 

The fees payable in the federal courts and tribunals will increase from 1 July 2023 to reflect changes to the consumer price index over the past financial year. This is an automatic increase provided by the relevant fee regulations. 

Please find a copy below of the notice published in the Government Notices Gazette  (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2023G00663) on 16 June 2023 setting out the new fees payable.

Gazette-Notice-C2023G00663---Annual-federal-courts-and-tribunals-fee-increases-from-1-July-2023.pdf

The Federal Government will protect workers at risk of exploitation with a package of measures that target employers who seek to exploit temporary visa holders and ensure workers can speak up without fear of reprisal. One in six recent migrants to Australia is paid less than the minimum wage.

This exploitation doesn’t just hurt the individual worker, but effectively drives down wages and worsens conditions for all Australian workers.

After a decade of neglect, the Federal Government is cleaning up the mess of the former Opposition Government who failed to implement key recommendations in the Migrant Workers Taskforce Report.

The Department of Home Affairs has provided the following information to Migration Alliance for distribution:

Form 1359 – Request for International Movement Records has been retired and removed from the Department of Home Affairs website  - all requests for movement records should now be submitted via the web enquiry form Request for international movement records (homeaffairs.gov.au).

Form 1359 can still be submitted to the Department up to 5 June 2023 and all requests received up to this date will be actioned in date order.

Divisions 200.2 and 201.2 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations sets out the primary criteria for the Subclass 200 (Refugee) visa and the Subclass 201 (In-country Special Humanitarian) visa, respectively.

If the Minister has specified, in an instrument in writing, one or more classes of persons for paragraphs 200.211(1A)(a) or 201.211(1A)(a), and a relevant Minister has certified that the applicant is in one of those classes and at risk of harm for a reason or reasons that relate to the applicant being in a class of persons, then the applicant will meet the requirements of subclauses 200.211(1A) and 201.211(1A).

LIN23046.pdf and LIN23046-Explanatory-Statement.pdf