Australian Immigration Daily News

The Amendment Regulations amend the Migration Regulations to help fill critical labour and skills gaps by temporarily removing certain requirements for applicants for the Subclass 485 visa in the Graduate Work stream.

Presently, applicants for the Graduate Work stream need to:

- nominate an occupation on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List;

- have a degree, diploma or trade qualification closely related to that occupation; and

- be assessed by a relevant assessing authority as having skills suitable for that occupation.

Removing these requirements will encourage more international vocational education and training (VET) graduates to stay and work in Australia for a longer period. It will also open up the visa stream to a broader range of graduates with diploma and trade qualifications that are not closely related to occupations on the skilled occupation list.

These requirements will be removed for all applications lodged during the 2022-23 financial year. The duration of the concession may however be extended, by legislative instrument, should current labour shortages not be ameliorated after this period.

Source: Migration-Amendment-Occupation-Nomination-and-Skills-Assessment-for-Sc-485-visas-Regs-2022.pdf

and 

The Australian Border Force (ABF) confirms a male detainee has passed away at Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre, Western Australia. We express our condolences to the man's family and friends.

The ABF's priority is the health and safety of all detainees and staff. The matter has been referred for investigation to the appropriate agencies. As this matter will be subject to ongoing investigation, it would not be appropriate to comment further.

Source: Death-of-detainee-at-Yongah-Hill-Immigration-Detention-Centre.pdf

The instrument repeals Migration (Payment of visa application charges and fees in foreign currencies) Instrument (LIN 22/001) 2022 (LIN 22/001) (F2022L01829) in accordance with subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (the Acts Interpretation Act).

That subsection provides that a power to make a legislative instrument includes a power to amend or repeal that instrument in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions, as the power to make the instrument.

LIN22003.pdf and LIN22003-Explanatory-Statement.pdf

The Office of the MARA has suspended Facebook podcast host, Monica Gruszka for a period of 3 years. Ms Gruszka and her associate, Mark Northam, an immigration lawyer previously hosted "The Migration Show" podcast.  

The page on the OMARA website is below: 

https://portal.mara.gov.au/disciplinary-decisions/sanctioned-agent-detail/?discid=e0db58db-a7e7-ec11-bb3d-002248186dff

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