Australian Immigration Daily News

Four weeks of rolling-strike action over pay conditions is set to further delay visa processing by the department of immigration. Airports around Australia could come to a stand-still in the next few weeks.

Thousands of civil servants are expected to join the strike action from 21 March 2016 unless the Government engaged in genuine talks to end the row over pay and conditions, notes a report in the ABC.

"We've been trying to resolve this for months and we're calling on Prime Minister Turnbull to give us someone to sit down and talk to…He has nearly three weeks to avoid this strike action, but we seriously think it could be resolved in three days if they're willing to talk about fixing this mess." Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU)  secretary Nadine Flood said.

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Australia welcomes skilled professionals from all over the world to come and work in the country, and is the dream destination of thousands of people. The Skilled Independent Visa allows people to migrate to Australia to get employment.

In this post, we are going to discuss what you need to do to migrate to Australia through the Skilled Independent Visa route (subclass 189).

The Skilled Independent Visa (subclass 189)

The Federal court has heard that 99.21% of applications on immigration matters were thrown out on the first court date, by federal circuit court judge Alexander ‘Sandy’ Street.

Judge Street is facing a judicial review on claims of ‘apprehended bias’. The court has heard that the judge rejected over 252 appeals of the 254 migration cases he considered over a period of six months. Applicants are presenting these statistics to show that those seeking a judicial review of migration decisions had virtually no chance of succeeding in Judge Street's court.

Barrister Jay Williams has told the chief justice, James Allsop, Justice John Griffiths and Justice Susan Kenny there was “a one in 10 chance before other judges and a 1 in 100 chance before this judge” of having an immigration ruling overturned, according to a report in The Guardian

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Does it matter when “family violence” has occurred? 

Is it open to the Department, or the Tribunal, to consider whether a “genuine” spousal or partner relationship existed at the time that the incident(s) of family violence occurred?  

Is it the case that if a person has been granted a provisional partner visa (Subclass 309 or Subclass 820) that they should be “conclusively presumed” to be in a genuine spousal or partner relationship? 

Recently, two cases were reported to the Migration Alliance where RMAs unexpectedly discovered that the visa status on the record on the department of immigration’s Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) database were later held to be ‘incorrect’ by the case-officer, thus resulting in refusals of their applications.

An RMA in Perth was shocked when the case-officer in a parent visa application produced a different set of VEVO results for an applicant from the one the RMA initially found on the department’s system which claims to provide ‘a fast and convenient way” to check “current visa details and conditions”

“This is intriguing” the RMA wrote to the Migration Alliance recently, “We did a VEVO check before lodging [the] application. It [did] not show condition 8503 on the entitlement…the only condition listed was No work (8101).” The condition 8530 means that the holder will not, after entering Australia, be entitled to be granted a substantive visa, other than a Protection visa.

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