Police in the Indian state of Punjab are investigating a brother-sister duo, believed to be currently living in Australia, who are accused of forgery and marrying each other in order to get Australian visas. The Conservative Party has long called for urgent reform of the visa...
‘The Department… will exchange data with the [ATO] to identify whether business sponsors are complying with their… obligations … and whether [subclass 457 and 482] visa holders are complying with their visa conditions’ A Gazette (Notice of a Data Matching Program to Enhance Compliance in...
‘The Amendment Determination only clarifies… that a person who becomes the holder of [a visa subclass 309 or 820] is subject to the [newly arrived resident’s waiting period]’ of 104 weeks The Social Security Amendment (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for...
Two new Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs) have been announced on 10 December 2018. Victoria According to a joint media release: Employers on the Victorian south-west coast have been given a boost, with a new visa agreement between the Commonwealth and Warrnambool City Council set to attract skilled workers to...
‘The Government has shut down its visa processing operations in Iran after it was warned some migration agents were boasting of corruptly obtaining visas’ The ABC News website contains an article that includes the following passages: Australian embassy visa office in Iran shut down amid warning of possible corruption The...
The flow of skilled migrants to the Northern Territory will continue, with the signing of a new five-year bilateral agreement to help employers fill skills shortages. The Federal Government and Northern Territory Government will this week sign a new five-year Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA),...
Three people were arrested in Melbourne by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) this morning for alleged migration offences as part of an ongoing Australian Border Force (ABF) investigation. The AFP-led (AFP) Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) also seized more than $3.7 million in assets related...
The number of places available to Israeli nationals will increase from 500 per year to 2,500...
The giving of a false document to the Department (which is not the case here until...
'The Government will introduce a new Temporary Sponsored Parent visa that will provide parents and grandparents a new pathway to reunite with their families' The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs’ website contains the following: Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Government delivers new Temporary Sponsored Parent Visa despite Labor opposition The Government...
