Australian Immigration Daily News

The Department of Home Affairs systems can now differentiate between registered migration agents and legal practitioners.

Australian legal practitioners will now have their own unique identifier number. This number has been emailed to legal practitioners this morning. 

Please see updated Form 956 'Appointment of a registered migration agent, legal practitioner or exempt person' attached and is now published: 

Purpose

A person may be eligible for the grant of a Subclass 408 (Temporary Activity) visa (Subclass 408 visa) where one of the primary criteria set out in Subdivision 408.2 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations applies. One of the primary criteria is that the person seeks to enter or remain in Australia to undertake work directly associated with an ‘Australian Government endorsed event’ (AGEE) (see clause 408.229). Such an event must be specified by legislative instrument, and an applicant for a Subclass 408 visa pursuant to clause 408.229 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations must be in a class of persons specified in that instrument in relation to the event (see paragraphs 408.229(b) and (c)).

The purpose of the instrument is to specify two AGEEs and the related class of persons for each event, for clause 408.229 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. The events are the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup 2023 (FWWC 2023) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 (ICC Men’s T20WC 2022).

The instrument also provides, for subparagraph 1237(2)(a)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, a nil visa application charge amount for applicants in a class of persons specified in the instrument.

Source: LIN21049.pdf and LIN21049-Explanatory-Statement.pdf

Are you ready with important support services ready to go when the borders open?

With all the news about borders opening its timely to think about some of the important services available to you as a Migration Alliance Member. As a reminder we have partnered with Allianz Care to bring you and your customers access to their range of visa compliant OSHC and OVHC.

Who is Allianz Care Australia?

The following message has been sent to Migration Alliance from the Office of the MARA

A systems outage to ImmiAccount is planned from Friday 12 November 8:45pm until 12 noon Saturday 13 November 2021 AEDT to perform system maintenance. 

During the outage time period you will not be able access the following online services via ImmiAccount: 

Purpose
4 Section 140GBA of the Act sets out a condition for labour market testing that needs to be met by approved work sponsors who wish to apply for work-related visas on behalf of a visa applicant in certain circumstances (see subsection 140GB(2) of the Act). Subsection 140GBA(1) provides that the labour market testing condition applies to a nomination by a person if:
- the person is or has applied to be, in a class of approved work sponsors (paragraph 140GBA(1)(a)); and
- the person nominates a proposed occupation and a particular position, associated with the nominated occupation, that is to be filled by a visa applicant (including proposed applicants) or a visa holder identified in the nomination (paragraph 140GBA(1)(b)); and
- it would not be inconsistent with any international trade obligation of Australia determined in a legislative instrument made under subsection 140GBA(2) to require the person to satisfy the labour market testing condition, in relation to the nominated position (paragraph 140GBA(1)(c)).

Source:  LIN21075.pdf and LIN21075-Explanatory-Statement.pdf