A new legislative instrument has been rushed through to correct an omission in the Consolidated Skills Occupation list specified by the legislative instrument IMMI15/092.

In the original instrument, the occupation 241213: Primary School Teacher was inadvertently left out.

The department of immigration issued a new legislative instrument (IMMI 15/108) yesterday and backdated it to 1 July 2015 putting Primary School Teachers back on the CSOL. In an email alert the DIBP confirmed that IMMI 15/108 has the effect of Primary School Teacher (ANZSCO 241213) being an eligible occupation for nomination for the following visa programmes from 1 July 2015:

• Skilled Nominated visa (Subclass 190)
• Direct entry stream of Employer Nomination Scheme (Subclass 186)
• Temporary Work (Skilled) visa (Subclass 457)
• Training and Research Visa (Subclass 402)

A further instrument was also issued to correct an error in the instrument IMMI 15/083. The new instrument IMMI 15/109 has the effect of eligible Special Category visa (Subclass 444) and New Zealand Family Relationship (Temporary) visa (Subclass 461) holders being exempt from meeting the skill requirement for the Direct Entry stream of the Employer Nomination Scheme (Subclass 186 visa).

IMMI 15/109 also has the effect of Child Care Group Leader (Aus) (Skill level 2) (ANZSCO 421111) being an eligible occupation for nomination under the Direct Entry stream of the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (Subclass 187 visa) from 1 July 2015.

It’s all got a bit scrappy so do take note the new and old instruments operate together: IMMI 15/108 runs concurrently with IMMI 15/092 and IMMI 15/109 runs concurrently with IMMI 15/083.