Priority Processing for Skilled & Employer-Sponsored visas

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has introduced a new order of consideration for certain skilled visas via a new Ministerial Direction. What is a Ministerial Direction?…

adminNovember 7, 2022

Occupation List Featured Skilled visa

Permanent Residency for Subclass 482 Short-term stream visa holders

In response to current working environments and the strong impact that COVID-19 has had on the Australian labour market, the Government has introduced new legislation…

adminJuly 5, 2022

Regional Skilled visa

Small Business Owner pathway

Australia's General Skilled Migration Program (Skill Stream, also referred to as the Points Tested Skilled Migration Program) is constantly evolving and changes to the way…

adminMay 19, 2022

News Skilled visa

S48 bar lifted for Skilled visas (190, 491 and 494)

Visa applicants may not always be aware that they must make a valid visa application before the Department can consider it. This means, that when…

adminNovember 4, 2021

Migration Program Skilled visa

Where did the Occupation Ceilings information go?

On 6 August 2021, The Department of Home Affairs (the Department) removed the information about Occupation Ceilings from its website (for reference only, this is…

adminAugust 11, 2021

Featured Occupation List Skilled visa Skills

What skilled occupation should I nominate?

Deciding on an appropriate skilled occupation to nominate for the purposes of General Skilled Migration can be very straightforward in some cases and more difficult in others.…

adminDecember 10, 2020

Skilled visa Migration Program

Top 5 most competitive ANZSCO occupations

You thought Skilled Migration was competitive? Spare a thought for the hundreds of candidates applying for Australia’s most in-demand occupations, as published by SkillSelect. With…

adminNovember 25, 2020

Occupation List News Skilled visa

State and Territory Nomination Interim Allocation

The State & Territory nomination program is temporarily closed until the Commonwealth Government’s allocation of state nomination places for 2020-21 takes place as part of the…

adminOctober 8, 2020

Migration Program Regional Skilled visa

Skilled Migration Program 2019-20 Overview

The year that was There is no doubt that the COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the 2019-20 Skilled Migration program. However,…

adminJuly 29, 2020

Occupation List News Skilled visa

1 July 2020 General Skilled Migration

1st July 2020, new financial year starts. The General Skilled Migration (GSM) program for the 2019/20 financial year has now closed. The State & Territory…

adminJuly 1, 2020

Skilled visa