Australian Immigration Daily News

The Department of Home Affairs has provided the following information to Migration Alliance for distribution:

Form 1359 – Request for International Movement Records has been retired and removed from the Department of Home Affairs website  - all requests for movement records should now be submitted via the web enquiry form Request for international movement records (homeaffairs.gov.au).

Form 1359 can still be submitted to the Department up to 5 June 2023 and all requests received up to this date will be actioned in date order.

Divisions 200.2 and 201.2 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations sets out the primary criteria for the Subclass 200 (Refugee) visa and the Subclass 201 (In-country Special Humanitarian) visa, respectively.

If the Minister has specified, in an instrument in writing, one or more classes of persons for paragraphs 200.211(1A)(a) or 201.211(1A)(a), and a relevant Minister has certified that the applicant is in one of those classes and at risk of harm for a reason or reasons that relate to the applicant being in a class of persons, then the applicant will meet the requirements of subclauses 200.211(1A) and 201.211(1A).

LIN23046.pdf and LIN23046-Explanatory-Statement.pdf

Purpose

Section 85 of the Migration Act provides that the Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine the maximum number of visas of a specified class, or specified classes, (excluding temporary protection visas or safe haven enterprise visas) that may be granted in a specified financial year.

The purpose of this instrument is to determine the maximum number of visas that may be granted for certain classes of visas in the 2022-2023 financial year between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023 (inclusive). The instrument covers the following visa classes (with item numbers referring to items in Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (Migration Regulations).

Source: LIN23106.pdf and LIN23016-Explanatory-statement.pdf

The Property Council of Australia today welcomed the strong, cyclical economic results in the Federal Budget but warned the government must match its targeted approach to migration with the same focus on housing investment and better planning across the country.

The budget highlighted the strength of net overseas migration (NOM) over the next five years, amounting to almost 1.5 million people, but also the extent of the housing supply crisis in Australia, with dwelling investment levels predicted to drop significantly, revised down from a forecast minus one per cent growth to minus 3.5 per cent in 2023/24.

Property Council Chief Executive Mike Zorbas said the government’s decision to increase skilled migration was a positive one, but warned the issue of housing lingers as a major handbrake on the necessary flow of skilled migrants and the quality of life for all Australians.

 “Reviewing the budget: growing our national skills base to keep the economy firing, tick, build-to-rent housing, tick, cities policy, tick, energy efficiency incentives, tick. Investment in housing, question mark,” Mr Zorbas said.

“Skilled migrants have been central to Australia’s economic success story for generations, filling critical job vacancies in important sectors, and making valuable contributions both economically and socially."