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.

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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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