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    The Department of Home Affairs has announced an increase in visa Application Charges (VAC) increase in fees will apply to applications made on or after 1 July 2021 on most visa subclasses. We have highlighted below the fee for the most common types of visas for your reference. Visa Type Pre-July fee From 1 July 2021 Student and Guardian (Subclass 500

  Migration Program planning levels ​​The Migration Program is designed to achieve a range of economic and social outcomes. In 2021-22, the Migration Program will have an overall planning level of 160,000 places, consisting of the following streams: Skill (79,600 places) – this stream is designed to improve the productive capacity of the economy and fill

    The new Far North Queensland DAMA list version 1.2 (FNQ DAMA 1.2) is available from 18 June 2021. There are 164 occupations in total and 110 new occupations have been added. New non-ANZSCO occupations (code 070499) have been included: ▪️ Bar Attendant (Supervisor) ▪️ Brewer ▪️ Café or Restaurant Supervisor ▪️ Diving Instructor (Tourism or Photography) ▪️ Farm

  LATEST NEWS The Queensland State Migration Program is closed and will remain closed until further notice. The new Queensland business and skilled nomination criteria is currently being finalised and will be available towards the end of July 2021 and will be published on the homepage of our website at this time. This new criteria

  The Skilled & Business Migration team continues processing all nominations received for South Australia’s skilled migration programs.   Decisions on state nomination applications will be reflected in the ‘My Application’ section on the Skilled & Business Migration portal.   Please be advised that offshore applicants with an existing EOI in SkillSelect may be invited to

  On Monday 12 July 2021 we will be making an important change to our Business Innovation (permanent) subclass 888A online nomination form. You no longer need to submit a scanned copy of the State Nomination Statement form with the application. This information will now be included on the online application form, making it easier

  Please be advised that state nomination applications/EOIs for the 2020/21 Program year will close at midnight on Monday 28 June 2021.  Any applications that have commenced but not lodged will be deleted from our system after this date. GSM applications received up until midnight on Monday 28 June 2021 will continue to be assessed

Huge Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List Update   The Minister for Immigration announced the addition of twenty-two new occupations to the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List (PMSOL), bringing the new list to a total of 41 occupations. Further Engineering and IT occupations have been added, along with ‘Cartographer’ and ‘Surveyor’, likely to assist with the number of

  Visa Processing Times Due to COVID-19, some visa processing times have been affecte​d and applications may take longer to finalise. Processing times are not available for all visa subclasses.  The Department is prioritising processing of visa applications for travellers who are exempt from our travel restrictions to help those who need urgent travel. For

How the Covid-19 pandemic affected livability worldwide. According to The Global Livability Index 2021, 4 of the most livable cities in the world are in Australia and 2 in New Zealand, where tight border controls have allowed residents to live relatively normal lives. Auckland (New Zealand) is at the top of this ranking. Australia: Adelaide