Australia Capital Territory Updates Skilled Occupational List for Permanent Residency

This is to inform that Australia Capital Territory is accepting applicants under visa subclass 190. The state has updated its occupation list to apply for Australia State Sponsorship Program. There are now 84 occupations under which an applicant may apply for ACT State Sponsorship Program. As per the ACT Government, the applicants must now submit a formal expression of Interest to be considered for applying permanent residency of Australia.They are required to complete a Canberra Matrix by mentioning key points like personal details, educational qualifications etc. The matrix consists of points that are of economic benefit or genuine interest to become a part of the ACT community.

The candidates who score 20 points or above will be ranked in the matrix pool for ACT nomination program where the highest ranking applicants will be invited to apply for 190 Visa.

A total of 363 invitations have been issued by the ACT after the list was updated on 12thMarch.

The next invitation round results of ACT will be conducted on 28th March, as per SBS News.

Also read– Australia Updated Occupation Demand List w.e.f 11th March 2019

The updated ACT State Nomination Occupation list is follows.

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Western Australia Skilled Invitation Round Results 22 March 2019

The Western Australia recently released the new invitation round results under SNMP Graduate Stream. The applicants were invited under Australia Skilled Independent Visa Subclass 190 and Australia Skilled Regional Provisional Visa Subclass 489.

The candidates with the Bachelor degree and zero Australian Work Experience but 15 years of overseas work experience along with 10 English points and overall total 70 points were invited to apply under Australia Skilled Nominated Visa Subclass 190.  The profiles that were submitted before 06/01/2019 were invited to apply.

Additionally, the applicants were also invited under Australia Skilled Regional Provisional Visa Subclass 489 having zero Australian work experience and 10 overseas work experience, 10 language proficiency points and overall 75 total points. The EOI profiles submitted before 22/02/2019 were considered to apply for 489 Visa.

Also read– Australia Current Invitation Round Results for 11th February 2019

The invitation round results were also conducted for occupations 221111 General Accountant. Due, to the high representation of this occupation in the eligible EOIs, the invitation round results were restricted. The results were as follows:

The Accountants were invited under Australia 190 visa who have:

• At least a PhD or Masters degree
• 5 years of Australian Work Experience
• 0 overseas work experience
• 10 points for language proficiency
• Overall 70 points

The candidates who have submitted their EOI profile before 08/11/2018 were invited to apply in the round.

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Potential Changes in Partner Visa Australia for the 2019 year

The Migration Amendment (Family Violence and other measures) Bill was recently passed in parliament there are potential and significant changes to the Australia Partner Visa Sponsorship process that are coming soon. The potential applicants willing to apply for Partner/Spouse Visa must lodge a separate application before applying for a partner visa application. In order to move forward, this application must be approved for partner visa sponsorship.

There will be no bridging visa to allow applicants to stay in Australia while the sponsorship application processes. The sponsorship application will be implemented on or before 10 June 2019. The Australian Immigration department will provide a little warning before the changes are actually brought in. So, if you are planning to apply for Partner Visa Australia, lodge the application as soon as possible.

The current process of applying Australia Partner Visa involves an online application form, identity documents, and evidence of a relationship. After that, the sponsor fills out a separate sponsorship form and provides police clearance certificates and other supporting documents.

Lodging a valid partner while in Australia allows the visa applicant to obtain a Bridging Visa A which will take effect when their current visa expires. This visa allows an applicant to remain in Australia until the decision is made on the partner application. During the spouse visa Australia processing time, the BVA holder will also be entitled to Medicare and have full work rights.

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Australian Citizenship Backlog Of 200,000 Applications

The Australian Immigration Department has recently announced that the government has spent $9 million to deal with an application backlog of more than 200,000 for Australian Citizenship.

Many refugees, out of which Biak Thwang Urai from Myanmar came to Australia in 2006 and lives in a modest home in Melbourne with his wife and six children. “The feeling as I arrived, I thought “this is the first sight of heaven.” We are very happy.” He told SBS News.

Mr. Urai fled Myanmar as he had been badly beaten by soldiers from the Burmese army after they had taken him on as a porter. He’d become sick and was unable to work.

“I worry that sometime the department will come and knock at the door and they’ll say ‘you need to go back to your country,” he said.

Mr. Urai applied for Australian Citizenship in 2015 to stop all the worries of going back but his papers were sent back. He has waited for five years in a refugee camp in Malaysia until he was finally granted asylum to come to Australia.

He applied again for the Australian Citizenship in 2017 and last year too where the department said that the requested birth and marriage certificate does not exist.

“We don’t have certificates because in my village there is no computers, everything no computer. My birth happened in the kitchen, not the hospital; it was very far away in the city.”

Therefore, obtaining replacement documents is difficult and costly, and a challenge faced by many refugees.

Also read– Proposed Australian Citizenship Requirements 2019

Western Melbourne Chin Community President Patrick Sang Hnin says he knows about the struggles of many people in his community.

“At least 1,000 people in his community have applied to become a citizen in the last two years and I don’t know of anyone who has been granted citizenship,” he said.

What is the cause of the Australian Citizenship delays?

In April 2017, then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a citizenship crackdown, sparking a flurry of new applications. However, the applications were not processed because the Department of Immigration waited for new eligibility criteria, including hard English test to come into effect.

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Australia Current Invitation Round Results for 11th February 2019

The February 2019 invitation round results for skill migration visa categories is now available. The recent results are down from 2490 ITAs in January to 1490 in February ITAs round. The invitations under pro-rata occupations were held at the highest immigration point score.

A break even-date and time was applicable in the current invitation round results for pro-rata occupations. For Australia Skilled Independent Visa Subclass 189, the break even date-time was 9/11/2018 till 11:49 pm. This means that applicants who have 70 immigration points in the EOI pool submitted before said date and time were invited to apply in this current round. Whereas, for Australia Skilled Regional Provisional Visa Subclass, the date-time was 2/10/2018 till 12:46 pm. The applicants who have 80 points in the EOI pool submitted their profile before the said date and time were invited to apply.

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Non-Pro rata occupation

The occupations under non-pro rata occupation for Australia Skilled Independent Visa Subclass 189 remain unchanged at 70 points. Due to the low number of invitations in this round, the most recently lodged EOI was November 2018 leading to the increase in the waiting time to 3 months.

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Canberra Reopening its Nomination Program in November, 2018

This is the good news for the migrants seeking Australia Permanent Residency Visa through Canberra. It is reported that ACT Government is reopening the Skilled Migration State Nomination Program after doing some changes in the policy. The program was temporarily suspended in June this year.

The Australian Capital Territory Government has announced the re-opening of its state nomination program after its sudden closure in June this year. The Skilled Nominated Visa 190 is expected to get open on 29th November, 2018 for in-demand occupations on the ACT skilled occupation list.

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The government of Canberra has also replaced the ‘first-come-first-served system’ with a merit based assessment to properly address the skill needs of The Australian Capital Territory.

The state government has already been criticized since the time the program was partially closed in June this year, leaving thousands of temporary migrants and international students stranded. They wanted to apply for Australian Permanent Residency Visa but were unable to do so because of the sudden closure of the program in June this year.

The government says that international student who was eligible for state nomination when the program got closed will still be eligible to claim additional points.

The applicants that were close to become eligible for Skilled Nominated Visa 190 when the program was partially suspended in June 2018 may be eligible to claim additional points under the point-based assessment system. This transitional measure has also been mentioned on the ACT Government website. Check point scored here

Canberra Skilled Migration Program

In September, hundreds of international students and temporary residents demonstrated a protest against the program’s closure. The reason of their protest was the earlier migration policy under which those applicants living in Canberra for at least 12 months were eligible for state nomination for a permanent resident’s visa. The protestors also demanded to increase the number of immigration places from 800 to 1500.

The ACT Government said it consulted with various stakeholders, including program participants, migration agents, education providers, employers and others to develop the new nomination ranking system.

The new policy however will only process the application of those candidates with an in-demand occupation on the Canberra Skilled Occupation List.

Though, the details of the new policy are still unclear and the government is expecting to reveal the new program on 15th November in an information session with the migration agents.

Hence, the migrants applying for permanent residency through Canberra Skilled Migration Program sigh relief as it is opening soon. To know more in this regard, you may connect to our immigration experts by filling the free assessment form. 

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Australia Immigration Points Requirement

The Australian immigration authority works on points. The PR points are seized through, age, experience, education, language ability, and other factors. The Australia Point System can be grabbed having good skills etc.

Read more- https://www.bloglovin.com/@australiaprvisa/points-required-for-a-pr-visa-to-australia

Know the annual income of Indians in Australia!

The latest survey was conducted by HSBC Bank in which 1424 overseas Indians were surveyed to know about their standard of living. The results said that Indians earn almost 80, 00, 000 per annum. The official data says that per capita Income of India is Rs. 1, 12, 835.

There are some interesting facts that were revealed by HSBC Bank about the lifestyle of the migrants:

• Out of 1424 Indians, 25% were females, 33% of people surveyed were in the age group of 18 to 34 years. Also, people under the age group of 35 and 54 years comprised 52% of the surveyed group. The other 15% of the people were above the age of 54 years.
• The 84% of the people are employed
• 51 % of the surveyed people had children while 64% were the property owners in India
• A quarter of the property owners abroad have at least 3 properties somewhere in the world
• There is 31% increase in the average income of the surveyed people
• Two-thirds of the Indians spend their income on their homes in India
• Half of the migrants buy properties in their home country because eventually they plan to settle down after their work in their respective home country
• 47% of the migrants surveyed said that they moved abroad to progress their career
• The Indians going abroad (55%) rely on their friends and Family for financial advice as Indians are close knit group wanting to take advice from their near and dear ones

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Australia Parent Visa Processing Time Increases Due To ‘Retirement Visa’

The waiting period for parent visas is currently between six to 30 years. This is likely to increase for retiree visas now being allocated a proportion of these visas.

The Australian migrants who are awaiting the outcome of their parent’s permanent residency visa under Subclass 103 (Parent) visa or Subclass 143 (Contributory Parent) visa will have to wait longer to get the visas approved.

The visa wait is expected to get longer in the coming days for the migrants applying through outside Australia.

The migration Amendment (Pathway to Permanent Residents for retirement visas) will allow to permanently “regularizing” the status of ageing and different long-term residency visas like Retirement Subclass 410 and Investor Retirement (Subclass 405) visa by giving them the pathway to obtain a permanent visa.

The Retirement Visa was introduced 35 years ago to encourage self-supporting retirees to bring overseas funds into the Australian economy and spend time in Australia on their expenses at no cost to Australia’s social and welfare system.

The migrants will be able to apply for Subclass 103 (Parent) visa or a Subclass 143 (Contributory Parent) visa from 17 November 2018.

This new amendment will reduce the number of visas for parents migrating from overseas and will also increase the waiting periods which are currently between six and 30 years.

The government said that to maintain the overall planning level, people who hold a retirement visa will be allocated a proportion of visas that would have otherwise been granted to people applying for parent visas.

Thus, this will result in increasing waiting period for parent visas.

The budget review 2018-19 reads, “In addition, as people who hold retirement visas already live in Australia, and as most people who gain a parent visa currently live outside of Australia, this change will reduce the number of new migrants to Australia.”

Though, the processing time to apply for Australia parent visa will increase but the Department Home Affairs focuses on implementing in certain way that minimizes the impact on Parent Visa Programs.

Read more about Australia family visa processing time

The immigration department will allocate small places in the new pathway within the existing Parent Category places.

The department further added, “Pathway places will be gradually allocated over a number of years starting in 2018-19 and will not affect the overall number of Parent and Contributory Parent places in the annual migration.”

Australia is a leading immigration destination for the migrants willing to come and settle, parent visa category might be in troubling waters but there are different Australia Skilled immigration programs too that are equally acceptable.

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