Australian Immigration Daily News

Indian national Midhun Basi came to Australia on a 457 visa. Mr Midhun says he was paid less than the legal minimum for a 38-hour week, and worked more than 70 hours a week in the restaurant over a period of 18 months. It’s estimated by South Coast Labour Council that if the claims are proven Mr Basi could be owed up to $220,000 in unpaid wages.

It’s also alleged that during his time at the restaurant Mr Basi was required to give cash to his employer which his employer said was to cover rent and bills at the restaurant.

This case is the latest in a series of high-profile wage theft allegations in the hospitality industry around the country.

Source: ACTU-media-release----broken-work-visa-system-and-wage-theft-allegations.pdf

The skilled regional nominated (489) visa is a provisional skilled visa that allows you to live and work in regional NSW for up to four years.

This visa provides a pathway to permanent residence. If you hold this visa and live for at least two years and work for at least one year in a specified region of NSW, you may be eligible to apply for a permanent visa at a later stage.

NSW Department of Industry works in partnership with participating Regional Development Authorities (RDA) in NSW to deliver the NSW Skilled Regional Nominated Migration (489) program.

Under this arrangement, NSW RDAs that choose to participate in the 489 program can select and nominate candidates whose skills are needed in their region.

The NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List for the 2018–19 financial year is published below. The NSW government will continue to select and invite top ranking candidates in occupations on the NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List (NSW 190 List).  They will select and invite candidates on an ongoing basis throughout the financial year. There are no key dates involved in this process.

The NSW 190 Priority Skilled Occupation List (NSW 190 List) contains the priority occupations that NSW will invite candidates under for nomination for a skilled nominated visa (subclass 190).

NSW-Priority-skilled-occupation-list-2018-19.pdf

The following information has been received from TAFE NSW:

We are pleased to announce that our payment form has been updated and is now hosted at its new home on TAFE NSW’s website: 

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Australian Skilled Visas August Update – Migration Alliance Summary

The Department of Immigration introduced several changes to skilled visas as part of 1 July changes. At this stage no changes to the skilled occupation list have been announcedalthough the list is currently being reviewed. Below is a summary prepared by Migration Alliance.

1. GTS Update
Home Affairs confirmed that the very first GTS agreement is now in place and the pilot will continue to run for approximately 12 months. For full summary of the GTS visa as well as eligibility requirements visit our recent article: