Australian Immigration Daily News

Australian Computer Society in partnership with Legal Training Australia participated in an online webinar addressing common questions and scenarios associated with lodging skills assessments for migration purposes.

For those who were not able to join the session, the following summary can be found below:

-        As of July 2019 ACS, has been approved by the Minister of Education as the relevant assessing authority for ICT related occupations under the Migration Regulations. The skills team assess 24 different occupation codes on the list of eligible skilled occupations as legislated by the Department of Home Affairs.

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233612 Petroleum Engineer
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312911 Maintenance Planner

Source: https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/skilled-migrants/lists-of-state-nominated-occupations

The following information is displayed on the Department of Home Affairs website:

An 'occupation ceiling' might be applied to invitations issued under the independent, skilled regional (provisional) visas. This means there will be a limit on how many EOIs can be selected for skilled migration from an occupation group. This ensures that the skilled migration program is not dominated by a small number of occupations. Once this limit is reached, no further invitations for that particular occupation group will be issued for that program year. Invitations will then be allocated to intending migrants in other occupation groups even if they are lower ranking. See 'occupation ceilings' tab on this page.

The table below shows the occupation ceilings for the 2019-2020 program year for each occupation on the list of eligible skilled occupations by four-digit ANZSCO code unit group.