Australian Immigration Daily News

Sydney Tafe held a Scholarship Presentation on 18 June 2013 to acknowledge students who were awarded scholarships from the contributions received through 457 Training Benchmarks. Migra

457 business sponsors were invited to the presentation to see first hand how their funds were used. 

Each student told their own story of how the funds have helped them to achieve their potential:    

•    Tim is an Aboriginal student who has overcome personal life challenges and is now studying music.  Tim wants to “help people through music” and volunteers teaching piano at Redfern Community Centre.
•    Adam is a young refugee orphan who arrived in Australia at age 14 with minimal schooling and no English language skills.  Adam wants to be a builder and is now studying building and construction. 
•    Alex has overcome homelessness to follow his goal of studying and working in the field of audio and sound production.
  
Business sponsors can easily become an acknowledged sponsor of a Sydney Institute scholarship for a student enrolled in a course related to their industry.  The following link provides further information:

Craig West is an Australian tax and strategy accountant who has created a great business which focusses on small to medium business owners, and helps them face the four key strategic issues that SME’s face as they grow:

• Raising Capital
• Building Equity
• Protecting that equity
• Extracting the value you have built when you exit.

Craig advises SIV 188 and 888 applicants on businesses in management, taxation and accounting issues, as he has done for his onshore clients for over 15 years.  

Craig has conducted numerous seminars and presentations throughout Australia for Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, MIA (see photo),  MLC, L J Hooker, the NSW Department of State & Regional Development, NSW Chamber of Commerce and CPA Australia.  Above is a picture taken of Craig at a MIA event this year.

Craig has been an expert adviser with a weekly segment on the Alan Jones breakfast radio program in Sydney and was a founding member of Thought Leaders.

Craig acts as a strategic business and financial mentor for business owners and has written three critically acclaimed books educating business owners on employee incentives, succession planning and asset protection and has recently been invited to complete a PhD in Business Succession Planning at Deakin University in Melbourne.

Migration Alliance is pleased to have forged a strategic relationship with Craig. We believe that the expertise within Succession Plus is a good fit with SIV and other high net worh individuals migrating to Australia.  We look forward to Craig presenting at some future migration agent CPD events across Australia.

DIAC have sent through an update letter to Migration Alliance re Melbourne and Dandenong.

Please find a copy of the letter below:

Letter-to-Agents_Melbourne-and-Dandenong-Counter-Services-are-Changing.pdf

Last weekend at the Wesley Conference Centre, Owen Firth from Performance Education presented at the Migration Alliance conference on the sc 402 professional year and the outcomes for international students who embark on the professional year with Performance Education.  The presentation was inspirational , especially watching the footage where students spoke about their experience.

A copy of the Performance Education presentation is located below.

Migration-Alliance-PY-Update-Sep13-Performance-Education.pdf

Migration Alliance is pleased to announce phase 1 of a multi-stage Mandarin website targetted at Chinese Significant Investor Visa applicants wishing to move to Australia.

With Migration Alliance now partnering with Australia's most exclusive companies in the SIV space, Chinese investors can choose real solutions written in their own language from start to finish in the investment visa cycle.  This solves the complicated process of applying for the Significant Investor Visa to Australia because everything can be found in the one place. 

Migration Alliance's SIV Mandarin portal is designed specifically to help chinese  investors choose appropriate investments.  It also assists them to produce a SALP and to locate an Australian migration agent. Utilizing decades of industry experience and functional expertise, Migration Alliance goes beyond the norm to develop this new portal, designed to drive results for 188 and 888 applicants, and help to grow migration agents' businesses.