At present occupations, the State and Territory Governments can approve for the SC 491/190 are strictly limited.
It would appear that the government will be focusing on critical sectors which are:
- people providing critical or specialist medical services, including air ambulance, medical evacuations and delivering critical medical supplies
- people with critical skills required to maintain the supply of essential goods and services (such as in medical technology, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, engineering and mining, supply chain logistics, agricultural technology, food production, and the maritime industry)
- people delivering services in sectors critical to Australia’s economic recovery (such as financial technology, large scale manufacturing, film and television production, and emerging technology), where no Australian worker is available
The Government of South Australia has been advised of a limited number of interim allocation places for the State’s General Skilled and Business Migration Program for 2020/21, which will be prioritised to support South Australia’s economic and public health recovery.
The full nomination allocations for 2020/21 will be determined later in the year as part of the 2020/21 Budget process which is due to take place in October 2020.
Applications impacted by the budget including the following subclasses
- Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491)visa
- Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) visa
- Business Innovation stream (subclass 188A) (Provisional) visa
- Investor stream(subclass 188B) (Provisional) visa
- Significant Investor stream (subclass 188C)(Provisional) visa
- Entrepreneur stream (subclass 188E) (Provisional) visa
- Significant Business History (subclass 132A)(Permanent) visa
- Venture Capital Entrepreneur (subclass 132B) (Permanent) visa
More information will be published as it become available.