Australian Immigration Daily News

Are you thinking of applying for a visa for employment, residence or study in another country where the language spoken is different from your own language? Are you confused by the visa requirements and worried about whether you are doing the right thing and whether your application could be rejected because you have made a mistake?

For worry free migration applications the best suggestion is to use a migration agent. These professionals know their own immigration rules inside out and understand what you need to provide to support a visa application. Using a registered and approved migration agent means you can relax and let all the responsibility for presenting your visa application with the agent rather than spend hours trying to do it yourself.

One of the advantages of using a migration agent is that they can provide you with a reasonable idea whether your visa application is likely to be successful. Most immigration authorities these days demand that you pay a fee for a visa application. This is usually not returnable, so if your application is refused for some reason, then you not only have wasted your time, but you also lose your money. A migration agent will prevent these sorts of errors from occurring.

From today, Chinese nationals can pay an additional $1000 to have their visa applications for a Visitor visa in either the Tourist or Business Visitor stream, fast-tracked.

As part of a trial to speed-up visa-processing for those who need to travel to Australia on short-notice and can afford to pay for the priority-processing, the department of immigration has announced that it will start fast-tracking such applications but did not commit to a minimum processing timeframe.

The department of immigration says there is no regulatory requirement that the application be decided by a particular timeframe despite the promise of priority processing and accepting the payment of $1000.

'HOW TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE'

As you may be aware, I am on Women's Council for the NSW Liberal Party, and as a result am able to extend this invite to my networks.

I would like to invite Migration Alliance members to lunch with the Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Women on Friday 6 May 2016. 

A Federal Court decision overruling the Immigration Minister’s decision to cancel a Brisbane man’s visa mid last year, has been overturned by the Full Federal Court last week.

Mas Eden’s visa was cancelled last year by the Minister using the power to cancel a visa under section 501(2) of the Migration Act because of a criminal conviction in 2011.

The Full Court reinforced the Minister’s powers to cancel Mr Eden’s visa finding the primary judge’s decision was affected with jurisdictional error.