Department’s systems outage
'There is a system outage on some of our online systems between 4:15pm and 5:45pm AEDT on Wednesday 13 February 2019'
VETASSESS: system maintenance
'System maintenance activities are planned for Thursday 14th of February 2019, between 05:00pm and 06:00pm (AEDT)'
Vic to reopen business nominations; EOI required
'Victoria will begin issuing invitations and assessing nomination applications for affected business and investor visa subclasses from 18 February 2019'; an EOI process will be introduced
Talking Migration Law – episode 5
A discussion on SkillSelect’s 11 Dec 2018 invitation round, VETASSESS’ new requirements for PhD as evidence of employment and in what circumstances an administrative decision-maker can consider dob-ins
AAT Bulletin Issue # 6 – 11 Feb 2019
The latest AAT Bulletin contains references to several citizenship & migration review decisions
VETASSESS: employment date
General professional occupations: 'As of 14 February 2019, we will be considering the exact date, including day, month and year for the Date Deemed Skilled'; work outside last 10 years may be considered
Qld: business & skilled programs closed
'Queensland has now closed state nomination for all business and skilled visas (submitted through SkillSelect) from ... 8 February 2019'
SkillSelect: 11 Dec 2018 invitation round
Number of invitations reduced from 4,350 to 2,500; number of invitations for individuals with 70 points reduced from 2,200 to 736
Talking Migration Law – episode 4
This episode features part 2 of our discussion on PIC 4020
Vic: new website for Chinese migrants
'The Skilled and Business Migration Program is pleased to launch its first bilingual section of this site liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au/zh-cn, now featuring comprehensive new content in Mandarin'