Industry Updates

Invitations to apply as Graduate list will be limited

'The TRA enquiry line will be unavailable on Monday, 28 January 2019 due to the Australia Day Public Holiday'

'There will be a systems outage from 9pm Friday 1 March to 12 noon Saturday 2 March 2019 (AEDT) unless noted otherwise'

The latest AAT Bulletin contains references to a migration review decision and a review decision of a MARA application refusal

'The AAT is currently seeking feedback from applicants, representatives and other parties who were involved in a case that was finalised by the AAT between 1 December 2018 and 30 March 2019. If you are part of this group you may receive an email or SMS invitation to complete a short and anonymous online survey'

'Planned outage. Engineers Australia wishes to advise that access to myPortal will be unavailable from 5:00pm AEST Friday 31st May 2019 to 9:00am AEST Monday 3rd June 2019 for system maintenance.'

'Some of our systems, including ImmiAccount, will be unavailable from 5.00pm Sunday 30 June 2019 until 6.00 am Monday 1 July 2019 AEST, due to planned maintenance activities'

The new Subclass 494 visa will "replace" subclass 187 on 16 November 2019. But will the health waiver, which is available for some subclass 187 applicants, be available for subclass 494?

It is very common for clients to ask us questions such as: "would visa X give me access to Medicare and if so, would I have full benefits, or would there be some limitation?"; "would visa X allow my children to study in public schools?"; "would visa X give me access to welfare benefits?". And the list goes on. We discuss some of the implications of giving advice on matters in which we do not have the required knowledge and/or licence/registration.

Changes to the Victorian Skilled and Business Migration Program: extension of 'invitation only' procedure, standardising processing times and no more 457 streamlined processing.