Australian Immigration Daily News

485.223 requires the applicant to have applied for a Skills assessment at the time application, however 485.224 requires a positive skills assessment at the time of application. PAMS supports 485.223 and clashing 485.224 which skills assessment result is at the time of decision criteria. See below:

485.22      Criteria for Graduate Work stream

485.223

It is truly amazing.  The DIBP have confirmed that there will be no VAC increases from 1 July 2014.

DIBP is to be commended.

The following news is just in from David Chin of Basis Point:

We are expecting 300+ SIV grants by 30 June 2014, based on current approval trends from the Department of Immigration.  

This equates to $1.5 billion in capital inflows since inception and currently $200 million in inflows each month

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Migration Alliance has today been informed that the web link is now live:

http://www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Pages/reviews-and-inquiries/independent-review-omara.aspx

Interestingly we have 27 days to make submissions, which is a short period of time.  The due date is the 27 July 2014.