Australian Immigration Daily News

Many migrants will be aware that skills assessment can be a cumbersome as well as stressful process.  Just as diverse as a visa application criterion for 99 visas we have in Australia, a Skills Assessment comes in all different shapes and level of difficulty.  Whilst in most situations, where a Skills Assessment is required, the situation is unavoidable, the process of completing a Skills Assessment can be streamlined by approaching a few basic techniques which will help you in the long run.

Know your skills Assessment Body

This is Skills Assessment lesson 101.  How well do you know your skills assessment body?  For example, if you are required to complete a Skills Assessment via Engineers Australia, do you know what stream you are required to apply under?  How long will the assessment take and what is involved as part of your assessment?  Trades Recognition Australia may ask you to complete a practical component therefore knowing some background information about your Skills Assessment body is vital to success of your application.

The number of migrants becoming Australian citizens continues to rise, with an 83 per cent increase in citizenship applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 compared with the same period last year.

Between July and December 2018, almost 73,000 citizenship applications were finalised. This is compared to almost 40,000 during the same period in 2017.  

"Australia Day is by far the most popular day to become a citizen and we are expecting more than 16,200 people to participate in ceremonies on Australia Day this year," Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman said.

BSMQ will issue business nomination invitations to selected visa subclasses on Friday 25 January 2019 until additional nomination quota has been filled. These visa subclasses include:

• 132A Business Talent visa (Permanent) – Significant Business History stream (excluding applications with an intention to invest in residential property development businesses in Brisbane and Gold Coast)
• 188B – Business Innovation and Investment visa (Provisional) – Investor Stream
• 188C – Business Innovation and Investment visa (Provisional) – Significant Investor Stream.

BSMQ will start processing expressions of interest (EOIs) which were lodged after 2 January 2019 in the above visa categories and will consider reopening 188A – Business Innovation and Investment Visa (Provisional) – Innovation Stream on a case-by-case basis.

The following conditions apply: 

ACE Testing Hub, a TOEFL Market Ambassador, is offering registered migration agents in Australia the opportunity to sell TOEFL test vouchers. Authorised agents can place a link to the ACE TOEFL Voucher site on their website and collect commission on any successful purchases of TOEFL vouchers, as well as obtain new leads for their agency services.

This collaboration between ETS and ACE Testing Hub makes TOEFL the most competitively priced English test in Australia at $306 per test voucher.  Contact Jake Foster at ACE Testing Hub at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 0417 990 079 for more information.

TOEFL iBT test centres are conveniently located in major cities across Australia including Adelaide, Brisbane, Jimboomba, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. 

A recent decision of the Federal Court constituted by Perry J highlights the role of a Mr Satchi, apparently not a Solicitor or an RMA, in the conduct of a case...

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2019/2019fca0029

Singh v Minister for Home Affairs (No 2) [2019] FCA 29