Australian Immigration Daily News

We have recently become aware of a company (myti.com.au aka MyCom) making cold telephone calls to RMAs in an attempt to sell RMAs printer and toner goods. When calling RMAs, they say that Migration Alliance has provided them with a 'list' of agents and their contact details.  We haven't.

myti.com.au are cold calling.  We have no relationship with them.   

They apparently have a call centre offshore.

A recent report from The Australia Institute showed that two in three new jobs in Queensland would come in the healthcare, professional and technical services, education and training, accommodation and food services and construction areas from now and probably well into the next 2 decades.

This is great news for the second-largest and third-most-populous state in Australia as job growth in these areas are outstripping job losses in the mining industry, notes the report.

In January, the Queensland Resources Council noted that the mining industry had cut over 20,000 jobs over two years. This is more than a quarter of the mining workforce.  Fortunately, over the same period total employment in Queensland increased by 72,000 due to strong employment growth in other industries, particularly services.

“No one who attempts to travel to Australia illegally by boat will settle in Australia.” 

So Minister Peter Dutton was quoted by the ABC as saying in response to yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that the detention of detention seekers on Manus Island breaches the right to personal liberty that is guaranteed by PNG’s constitution. 

It will certainly be interesting to follow what happens in the aftermath of this decision. 

On the eve of ANZAC Day, the peak tourism bodies of Australia and New Zealand launched a lobby urging the migration ministers on either size of the Tasman to develop a single tourist visa for travel to the two countries.

The move comes after a New Zealand government study found that 43 per cent of the 7578 single trans-Tasman visas granted during the Cricket World Cup last year were to Chinese nationals, although China did not have a team in competition.

The tourism chiefs of both countries say that granting entry to both Australia and New Zealand, could encourage more travellers to make long-haul flights to the region. Now, citizens from the two nations have reciprocal work and travel rights, but international tourists need to obtain separate visas for each country.

There are times when you read some of the migration cases that are reported in the judgments of the Federal courts, you can feel nothing but the most profound and heartfelt sympathy for the visa applicant. 

Take the case of Bhalla v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2016) FCA 395 that was handed down this past Friday, 22 April, for example: 

The applicant in this case was an Indian woman who had married her husband, an Australian citizen, through an arranged marriage, in 2009. She claimed that following the marriage, she was kept in virtual servitude in her in-laws home, mistreated, made to cook and clean and was not permitted to see her parents unaccompanied.