Australian Immigration Daily News

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs Alex Hawke said this would allow current and former Skilled-Recognised Graduate visa holders to enter, or remain in, Australia until April 2024.

“This measure recognises the importance of qualified engineers to Australia’s economy, particularly as we continue to manage the COVID-19 recovery,” Minister Hawke said.

“Australia’s international border opened to fully vaccinated Student, Temporary Graduate and Skilled-Recognised Graduate visa holders from 15 December 2021,” he said.

Source: Enhancing-temporary-visa-settings-to-support-Australias-economic-recovery.pdf

The purpose of the instrument is to expand the parts and areas of Australia that are specified for subregulation 1.15M(1), the definition of regional Australia in subregulation 5.19(16), and for subparagraph 888.226(2)(c)(i) and paragraph 892.213(3)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. 

The instrument adds postcodes in the local government areas of Moreton Bay and Ipswich, Queensland as specified parts and areas of Australia for this purpose. The instrument also specifies parts of Australia for subregulation1.15M(2) of the Regulations.  The instrument operates such that those parts of Australia are also specified for the definition of regional Australia in subregulation 5.19(16) and as areas for subparagraph888.226(2)(c)(i) and paragraph892.213(3)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. 

The parts of Australia specified for the subregulation 1.15M(2) are unchanged from LIN20/292.

The Office of the MARA has provided the following information for all RMAs:

A new Code of Conduct for registered migration agents (new Code) commenced today, 1 March 2022.  The new Code is prescribed by the Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 and is published on the Federal Register of Legislation. A PDF version of the new Code is also available on the OMARA website. Please ensure any links you have to the previous Code on your website or business materials are updated to link to the new Code. 

The new Code implements recommendation 18 of the 2014 Independent Review of the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority. 

The Office of the MARA sent the following information to Migration Alliance via email today:

A systems outage to ImmiAccount is planned on Saturday 26 February 2022 from 2:00pm until 10:30pm AEDT to perform planned system maintenance. 

During the outage window you will not be able access the following services via ImmiAccount: 

The following email was received from the South Australian government today:

Skilled & Business Migration would like to advise that following an annual review, the Australian Government has agreed to the following changes to South Australia’s two Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs).  

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