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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