Australian Immigration Daily News

Dear Migration Alliance members,

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Nexus Partners have been at the forefront of redefining the way professionals manage the finance needs of their clients. Implementing our referral program will ensure that you are in greater control of the finance needs of your clients whilst maximising the revenue share available to your business.

Education Minister for South Australia Dr. Susan Close has announced that 457 visa workers earning a household income of more than $77,000 will have to start paying school fees of up to $6100 from next year, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.

Now, the children of sc457 workers do not pay public school fees. The move brings South Australia into line with WA, NSW and the ACT.

According to the newspaper, for the first year, the new charge will only apply to people who arrive in SA from January 1, 2017. From January 2018 it will apply to all 457 visa holders living in the state, regardless of when they arrived.

Exactly what does a statistical analysis of a judge's decisions mean? 

Suppose you knew that a particular judge of the Federal Circuit Court had ruled in favour of the Department 99.21% of the time (in 252 out of 254 cases).

What conclusions would you be likely to make if you saw that your client's judicial review application was listed before that judge? 

I have forgotten my password to my own blogger profile and I dare not ask my PA today for my password on her day off.  So here it is.  This is what I have come up with today.  An adaption from one doing the round for lawyers.  Liana Allan 

There is hope for the hopeless although the process of reconsidering his visa cancellation left Ricardo Bolvaran with ‘thoughts about suicide’.

Despite having lived in Australia for 41 of his 42 years, Mr Bolvaran, a recovering ice addict, was deported to Chile, the country of his birth late last year following his imprisonment in Brisbane's Wacol prison for drugs-related offences. Given that s501 of the Migration Act allows for automatic cancellation, if he had refused to leave, he would have been detained on Christmas Island while the DIBP reconsidered the cancellation decision.

However, within some 6 months of his deportation, the decision to cancel his visa was revoked yesterday by the DIBP paving the way for him to return to Australia.