Australian Immigration Daily News

Employers naturally felt a pinch when 216 occupations were removed from the Skilled Occupations List on 17 April 2019 upon the announcement that the 457 visa was being abolished. 

This left employers with handful of occupations which were further split into two segregated lists, the Short-term Skilled Occupations List (STSOL) with no access to permanent residence, as well as more restrictive New Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL), which allows permanent residence provided the occupation is most susceptible to supply constraints (e.g. due to the time taken to develop necessary skills) and/or most likely to warrant Australian Government intervention to address these constraints.

Nonetheless, this was all part of a well-planned reform to bring Australian immigration system into the 21^st century.  

Migration Newsletter 751 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration_Newsletter_751.01.pdf

It astounds me that persons who have been granted a protection visa  and who are not  Australian citizens travel overseas to the place from which they have originally fled, to visit family friends and spouses.

I have a case in front of me involving a citizen of Iraq who gained PR as a refugee and over the last 6 years has routinely travelled back to Iraq.

His visa was cancelled by resort to section 128 whilst he was offshore. He now has to seek a revocation of that cancellation.

Liana Allan, the founder of Migration Alliance, attended the Department of Home Affairs Industry Summit, held a the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne.   

During his presentation to Stakeholders at the Summit, both Migration Alliance and our founder, Liana Allan received a special mention from the Minister Jason Wood MP, for an excellent and successful migration conference held in Sydney last week.  Thank you to all the Migration Alliance members who attended our conference.  We ended up with 750 migration agents in attendance.  Apparently this is the largest migration agent conference ever hosted.

Liana Allan will be reporting on her day in a separate article here on this website either today or tomorrow.

The National Conference conducted by Migration Alliance was held on Friday 15 November attended by more than 700 migration agents.  

Several vital topics were covered during the session including: 

• TSS visas and transitioning employees to permanent residence
• An update from South Australian government in relation to skilled migration intake
• Representing an applicant at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Presentation by the Orana Region, specifically focusing on DAMA
• An update from Victoria, NSW, BSMQ in relation to business skills as well as skilled migration programme
• Finally, the Mock AAT hearing

It was also a pleasure to host the Department of Home Affairs which provided insightful updates in relation to the new regional skilled visa subclass 491 and 494.  This was followed by an update on Immigration Program Management and Delivery: Skilled and Investment Visas, and Temporary Migration, Update on Global Talent Initiative. Lastly a stern update on provision of unlawful migration assistance and an update on migration advice industry.