Australian Immigration Daily News

With a significant slowdown in General Skilled Migration, there is a significant rise of interest in the Global Talent Independent (GTI) visa program. This program aimed to attract qualified professionals to work and live permanently in Australia. Recently GTI merged into a single subclass 858 visa, aiming to address impracticalities such as inability to apply for this visa within Australia in some instances as well as the need to depart Australia for grant of the visa.

In terms of the candidates, the program seeks to attract individuals in sectors working in cyber security, energy and mining technology, space and advanced manufacturing, data science and ICT, among others.

What makes the GTI program so interesting?

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The instrument operates to specify the States and Territories which have agreed to participate in the health waiver scheme for the purposes of the now repealed clauses 846.111, 855.111, 856.111 and 857.111 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations (as they existed before 1 July 2013).

The purpose of the instrument is to remake IMMI 10/064, which is due to sunset on 1 October 2020. There have been no changes to the specified States and Territories from those specified in IMMI 10/064.

Source: LIN20237.pdf and LIN20237-Explanatory-Statement.pdf

This instrument specifies a class of persons eligible to access certain existing requirements of the Temporary Residence Transition streams of the Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) and Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) visas. The instrument is consequential to changes to the Migration Regulations 1994 by the Migration Legislation Amendment (Temporary Skill Shortage Visa and Complementary Reforms) Regulations 2018.

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https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L00285