Australian Immigration Daily News

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Latest data on the Department of Home Affairs website shows the minimum points cut off for 189 General Skilled Migration and 491 (Family Sponsored Migration) stands at 95 points with a total of just 100 invitations issued for both programmes.

Certain occupations are attracting higher points in order to score an invitation including

Accountants – 100 points

Today, Legal Training Australia hosted a seminar with NSW Government discussing the State Nomination Programme for 2020/2021.

As we are all aware, State Nomination is competitive process, with criteria changing based on the economic needs as well as ensuring that Australian Citizens and PR holders are offerded jobs in the first instance.

The following update was provided by Zane Rebrojna in relation to NSW State Migration hosted together with Ross Ahmadzai from Legal Training Australia.

As the COVID-19 restrictions ease, the question arises at to when it will be possible for international travellers to come to Australia.  Whilst international travel in general still some time away, recent announcement by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggests that international students may be able to travel to Australia as early as July. 

Roadmap to a Covid Safe Australia (https://www.pm.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/covid-safe-australia-roadmap.pdf) reveals that trans- Tasman, Pacific and international student travel should be included as part of the last stage of lifting Australia out of the lockdown. However, the implementation is to take place as early as July this year.

Australia has long been one of the top ranking countries in the world when it comes to the lucrative education sector, where learners come to study and stay temporarily to achieve an internationally recognised qualification.

With COVID-19 pandemic still sweeping much for the world, options for individuals to remain in Australia became more limited (yes, even more limited than they were prior to the pandemic).

With 90 visa subclasses to choose from, one would think that there is a solution to every scenario.  The reality however is quite contrary.  Take example of a student visa applicant, if they want to lodge another student visa in Australia and this is their second onshore application, they will be faced with an additional levy known as STAC or Secondary Temporary Application Charge.  Using the same example, an individual wanting to apply for a student visa whilst holding a Bridging Visa, cannot do so whilst in Australia unless they meet Schedule III criteria (in simple words, they are not a holder of a substantive visa and therefore they cannot lodge another student visa in Australia unless compelling or compassionate grounds exist).

We then move on the secondary issue which are the conditions that many temporary visa holders will have attached to their visa.  This means that there are certain things that they can and cannot do as a holder of that visa.