Industry Updates

VETASSESS' web application will be unavailable from Thursday 21 March 2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

The latest AAT Bulletin contains references to several citizenship & migration review decisions

​'Invitations for State nomination are usually issued on the third Thursday of each month. This will be brought forward by one week in April due to the Easter closure. Invitations are anticipated to be issued by 11 April 2019'

The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee has tabled a report  recommending that there be no limitation to the amount of times a person can sit the citizenship test and that the English requirement be IELTS 5; Recommendation 1 contains an error

Following the commencement of the new LIN 19/051 on 11 Mar 2019, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia have updated their occupation lists for visa subclass 190

Number of invitations significantly reduced from 2,500 to 1,500; number of invitations for individuals with 70 points significantly decreased from 848 to 32

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'Engineers Australia’s online portal will be temporarily made unavailable during 22- 25 March. During this time, you will not be able to log in to EA’s Portal to initiate, submit or continue any applications'

'The Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) enquiry line will be unavailable on Monday, 11 March 2019 due to the Canberra Day Public Holiday'

'VETASSESS is conducting FREE webinars followed by a live Q&A session for prospective applicants and new migration agents wanting to learn about skills assessment'