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9 October 2015 The Department of Training and Workforce Development has released the Western Australian skilled migration occupation list (WASMOL) for 2015-2016. The State nomination criteria will remain the same. You must have an occupation on the WASMOL to be invited to apply for State nomination. If you have lodged an application for State nomination

Business & Skilled Migration, Queensland (BSMQ) is pleased to announce changes to the QSOLs effective 8 October 2015. To ensure occupations available for nomination by BSMQ reflect the needs of Queensland industry, BSMQ regularly reviews the occupations, specialist skills and mandatory licensing, registration or memberships on our QSOLs. This helps to ensure migrants have a

Engineers Australia has launched its new online service, the Migration Skills Assessment Fast Track. Fast Tracked applications will be assigned to an assessor within 5 business days for assessment. Applicants submitting a new application online can now select the Fast Track option directly at the point of payment. This means the application will be sent straight

The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 6 November 2015. Invitations issued on 6 November 2015 Visa Subclass Number Skilled – Independent (subclass 189) 1150 Skilled – Regional Provisional (subclass 489) 20 During 2015-16 the following number of invitations have been issued: Invitations issued during 2015-16 Visa subclass July August September October

The ACS offices will be closed from Thursday 24th December 2015 and will re-open on Thursday 7th January 2016. Phone and email enquiries will not be available during this time. All skills assessments not completed before Thursday 24th December 2015 will be finalised after Thursday 7th January 2015.

Please note that Engineers Australia’s National Office will be closed from the 24 December 2015 afternoon to the 8th January 2016. The offices will open again on the 11th January 2016. All assessment activities will be suspended during this time. Applications will not be processed or finalised. Please note also that applications requesting the Fast

From the 1st January 2016, Engineers Australia will be accepting the TOEFL IbT as an alternative English Language Test to address the English language competency element of the Migration Skills Assessment. Applicants submitting their application on or after the 1st January 2016 will be able to provide either an IELTS test result form with a

Since November 2014, Engineers Australia is no longer accepting new paper based Migration Skills Assessment applications. All applicants now have to submit their application online. On the 1st January 2016, Engineers Australia will close all the pending assessment applications based on a paper based file and will stop further processing of the paper based applications.

Invitation rounds will be held twice a month from November 2015 and dates of rounds will be advised in advance. The maximum numbers of invitations to be issued in the December 2015 invitation rounds are as follows: 4 December 2015 Visa subclass Maximum number Skilled – Independent (subclass 189) 700 Skilled – Regional Provisional (subclass 489) 5 18 December 2015 Visa