Industry Updates

The latest AAT Bulletin contains references to several migration review decisions

The Government will exempt Visa Application Charges for competitors and officials applying for a Temporary Activity (subclass 408) visa to participate in the 2019 INAS Global Games and International Cricket Council T20 World Cup in 2020

Inquiry into the efficacy of the regulation of migration agents: according to the International Student Education Agents Association, 'educations agents giving migration advice is not a significant issue'.

Tip Series - Visa Cancellation: it is commonly said that if a person's visa is cancelled, all other visas held by the same person are automatically cancelled. With respect, that is not the case.

Number of invitations reduced drastically from 1,500 to 110; invitation threshold raised from to 75 to 80 points for visa subclass 189 and threshold for visa subclass 489 remained the same at 80 points

'SA will be closing the General Skilled Migration (GSM) state nomination 190/489 application system from 9am on Monday 24 June 2019 and will re-open in the first week of Jul 2019 (the date and time will be confirmed at the start of July)'

'BSMQ has received additional quota for the skilled program and is re- opening the ‘Working in Queensland, ‘Masters’ and ‘PhD’ Queensland Skilled Occupation Lists from Thursday, 18 April 2019'; the lists of occupations have changed

What happens if a passenger card contains incorrect answers or even if some questions are not answered? Are there any visa implications? If there is any implication, does it make any difference if the passenger card was filled out by someone else?

'[A]pplications for Western Australian State nomination for 132 Business Talent visas are closed until further notice'

Additional questions and answers have been incorporated into to the South Australian DAMA's FAQ