Australian Immigration Daily News

Skilled migrants make a vital contribution to Australia. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100,000 migrants entered Australia under the skilled migration program each year. These migrants play an important role in filling gaps in the Australian workforce and will continue to do so in future.

“The Committee will consider how we attract entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and highly skilled migrants to make Australia their first choice to invest, establish businesses and create jobs.”

Source: JSCOM---Skilled-Migrants.pdf

Subclass 190 and 491 now open 

The standard 491 and 190 program is currently OPEN from 1 February 2021 - 07 February 2021. Only onshore applicants, currently working in Queensland will be considered. The next skilled opening after this week will be in April 2021.

Please submit a BRAND new EOI if you meet the criteria and occupation/sector requirements below. 

The Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) Subclass 491 visa (from 65 points and above)

The standard subclass 491 pathway and subclass 190 will not re-open until the 01 February 2021, and new EOIs for the skilled program will not be picked up until this time, so please do not submit an EOI prior to this date. 

491- SBO (Small Business Owner) Pathway

IMPORTANT: Applicants need to submit a 491-SBO Assessment Form prior to submitting an Expression of Interest (EOI), so that your EOI will be picked up.

The Tasmanian Nominated Skilled Migration Program will reopen with updated requirements to general applications on 29 January 2021 at 1pm (AEDT). 

Until this time interim program restrictions remain in place. 

Due to related system maintenance, online application access will be shut down at 5pm (AEDT) 28 January 2021 and all draft applications on-hand will be closed and archived.  

Many occupations added to the ACT critical skilled occupation list. 

The ACT critical skilled occupation list was updated yesterday and many occupations were added to the list. Some occupation are currently available only for the 491 visa. 

The following occupations were added to the list:

('X' indicates that the occupation is eligible for that visa subclass)