Australian Immigration Daily News

A new website has recently emerged called Australians for Honest Elections. 

This is something which has taken my interest.  After watching what happened with the WA elections I had to stop and ask myself what is happening at the AEC?  Who is dealing with that?  Interestingly today I found an email in my inbox which led me to my answer:

The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters  - Inquiry into and report on all aspects of the conduct of the 2013 Federal Election and matters related thereto.

I was asked in an email today to check out this website "Australians for honest elections'.

Migration Alliance is pleased to announce a new partnership with Drive My Car Rentals.

Drive My Car Rentals is a private, or Peer to Peer, car rental service that allows migrants and other visa holders to drive the car they want at a fraction of the cost of a traditional car rental. Visa holders can select from over 40 car makes and models.

Excellent cost savings for visa holders

Media Release

Migration Alliance is pleased to announce the following news from our exclusive health services partner, Bupa:

Bupa to provide Australian visa health checks

Please find a link to the 2014 service standards below.  These set out the visa category and the average processing times per category and also the risk level.

2014-service-standards.pdf

The ABC has reported that calls have emerged to allow students, to defer their studies under exceptional circumstance like personal injury in order that they are allowed to recuperate in Australia and subsequently return to their studies. Currently only Ministerial intervention can save visa holders in such circumstances unless the schools allow for such deferments which however tends to be limited to one or two semesters. With serious injuries, this is not enough.

“We are talking about things like motorcar accidents; there's no laws in place to enable an applicant to defer for a long time, not even the policy allows for that. So often you get international students having their visas cancelled because they've been involved in car accidents, they've been injured or where they've been victims of crime,” said immigration lawyer, Michael Clothier in an interview with the ABC.

"Everything associated with those sorts of problems has to go all the way to the Minister, for ministerial intervention because the migration regulations do not make the sort of allowances that need to be made."