28 Dec Work & Holiday: 3rd year stay and more places
The number of places available to Israeli nationals will increase from 500 per year to 2,500...
10 Dec Man arrested for alleged migration fraud
The giving of a false document to the Department (which is not the case here until...
29 Nov New sponsored visa for parents and grandparents
'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...
08 Nov Parent visa queue update
On Wednesday 29 September, the Department of Home Affairs updated their information on the current parent visa scheme framework. Home Affairs confirmed that the following numbers of visas are available under contributory and non-contributory parent visa scheme: In the 2018–19 Migration Programme year: 1 500 places...
08 Nov Alternative pathways to the TSS visa
Subclass 407 visa aims to promote international goodwill by allowing Australian organisations to sponsor persons to travel to Australia to participate in occupational training activities, including classroom-based professional development activities. Whilst the visa is not designed to fill labour shortages and is, therefore, not an...
24 Sep Foreign students ‘gaming the visa system’ to stay in Australia are a ‘major factor’ pushing wages down while putting pressure on the country’s housing market
Foreign students gaming Australia’s immigration system by switching visa.....
11 Sep Bridging visa numbers soar as background checks get tougher
Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said yesterday there had been much greater scrutiny of applications. The number of temporary foreign residents on bridging visas has soared by 45 percent in the past nine months as the Department of Home Affairs strengthens checks on applicants,...
11 Sep One in 10 regional migrants use country towns as a pit stop before moving to a city
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has vowed to strengthen rules requiring new migrants to fill skills shortages in regional areas, as new figures confirm one in every 10 foreign worker moves from the country to a city within 18 months. The Home Affairs data released yesterday has...
22 Aug Ice-addicted wife basher and a Rebels bikie with a ‘f*** the police’ neck tattoo are deported back to New Zealand – as tensions rise over Australia’s ‘unfair’ expulsion of HUNDREDS of Kiwis
Ko Haapu was deported back to New Zealand for being a Rebels bikie in Perth The former soldier in Afghanistan has a neck tattoo which is very anti-police Shaun Wynyard was expelled from Australia for bashing his wife as he took ice Both men are among the...
22 Aug Controversial New Zealand pastor deported from Australia
A New Zealand pastor who allegedly disrupted Islamic worship at two Brisbane mosques has been deported from Australia. A source confirmed to Fairfax Media that Ipswich-based Pastor Logan Robertson - who is facing charges of being a public nuisance after allegedly disturbing worship at Kuraby...
