Australian Immigration Daily News

Tourists will pay $40 more ($190 overall), a backpacking visa will cost $130 more ($640 overall), and students will pay $65 more ($715 overall).

There’ll also be a 40 percentage point increase for business innovation and investment visas.

The government says the changes will raise more than $100 million each year, which will fund improvements to the visa processing system.

For many women, their visa situation makes them especially vulnerable to family and domestic violence. To address this, the Government is providing:

• $10 million over four years from 2023-24 to expand the family violence provisions within the Migration Regulations 1994 and support visa holders experiencing domestic and family violence, including secondary applicants for permanent visa subclasses, offshore temporary Partner visa applicants and Prospective Marriage visa holders.

These changes accompany our extension of the TVP and build on recent changes to ‘non-judicial’ evidence requirements for temporary visa holders coming forward for assistance.

The Australian Government is investing an additional $630 million through the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Border Force to improve Australia’s migration program and build on Australia’s already strong border and national security settings.

These investments complement the Government’s proposed vision for a targeted, simpler migration system that serves our national interests and helps migrants thrive in our society and economy. The total investment includes the following new measures:

Migration program and settlement services

The Government is ensuring the migration system delivers the skilled migrants needed to address persistent skills shortages, by allocating around 70 per cent of places in the 2023- 24 Permanent Migration Program to the Skill stream. Partner and child visas will remain demand-driven.

This will complement medium and longer-term efforts to address domestic skill deficits through education, training and sectoral reform.

Source: Joint-Media-Release---Clare-ONeill-MP-and-Andrew-Giles-MP.pdf

and The-Hon-Jim-Chalmers----Net-Overseas-Migration---Transcript.pdf and

DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS:

For family members in Sudan without a visa, you can identify what visa best suits their circumstances by exploring visa options.

The Department is still progressing visa applications from Sudanese people. We know the situation for many applicants has and will continue to change. It is important for visa applicants to keep their contact details and other information up to date with the Department. 

Sudanese citizens in Australia can consider temporary and permanent visa options to stay in Australia. As each person’s circumstances are different, explore these visa options by using our visa finder tool.

Quotes Attributable to Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus: 

I thank and acknowledge the contribution of survivors of modern slavery who shared their insights. These insights were an invaluable addition to the conference.

Australia has strong criminal offences for modern slavery and the Albanese Government is committed to ensuring Australia’s laws are ready to respond to the changing ways criminals exploit and harm vulnerable people.

We continue to train our frontline responders to identify, disrupt, investigate and prosecute offenders. Australian also has a dedicated Support for Trafficked Persons Program and Human Trafficking Visa Framework.

Source: Supporting-survivors-of-modern-slavery-through-the-criminal-justice-journey.pdf