Australian Immigration Daily News

I am writing to provide an update on forthcoming changes to the department’s online lodgement products.

Deferral of Change Release 10 (CR10)

The planned deployment date for Change Release 10 has been moved from 22 November to 6 December 2013. This includes the new Online Account functionality and the introduction of online lodgement for Partner visas.

Changes to e457 Labour Market Testing functionality will be delivered on 22 November as originally planned.

e457 LMT Changes

To support the introduction of the 457 LMT legislative changes there will be changes to the e457 forms resulting in a planned outage for the following systems:

·         eLodgement (eVisa and Citizenship)

·         Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO)

·         LEGENDcom.

The outage will be from 10:30 pm Friday 22 November until 3:00 am Saturday 23 November 2013 ADST (GMT +11).

Please note: e457 Nomination applications, commenced prior to 10:30 pm Friday 22 November, which have not been paid and submitted, will no longer be able to be retrieved after this time.

Changes to online lodgement services – Introduction of the Online Account

In early December 2013, we will make changes to our online visa lodgement services. The changes will affect all current, saved, unsubmitted online applications. If clients/agents have an unsubmitted visa application when the changes are made, they will not be able to be retrieved and will have to be started again.

If clients/agents do not want to lose any saved online visa applications, we encourage them to submit these before 6 December.

The planned outage window for the CR10 release is still being finalised. Given the complexity of the system changes being introduced, the outage duration could extend across the weekend 6-8 December. We would encourage clients/agents to ensure applications are submitted in advance of this planned outage.

See: System maintenance and technical issues for the most up-to-date information

Should you have any questions in regards to the above changes please let me know.

Kind regards,

Mark McGuire
Director
eService Support Section
Department of Immigration and Border Protection