Legislative Updates

The new Regulations "implement a new workplace justice visa that enables a temporary migrant to remain in Australia for a period of time to undertake a workplace justice activity... The Workplace Justice Visa is one component of a range of measures that the Government is introducing to address migrant worker exploitation..."

The new Regulations "strengthen the protections available to migrant workers to given them confidence to report workplace exploitation matters"

"The purpose of this instrument is to specify that the visa application charge is nil for applicants for a ..."

The new instruments specifies the daily amount for the keeping and maintaining of a person in immigration detention, for the purposes of s 262(2) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

The new instrument "updates the list of specified degrees for the purposes of the amended subclause 485.231(1) of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations"

The new Regulations apply the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to Australian citizenship application fees from ...

The new instrument provides for approved activities for the purposes of s 245AF(a) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

The new instrument specifies additional categories of substantive temporary visas that preclude a person in Australia from making student visa applications

The new Regulations enhance the labour market mobility of temporary migrants under the following visa subclasses: 457, 482, 494

The new Regulations "simplify the Temporary Graduate visa program as outlined in the Migration Strategy released 11 December 2023 and combined with other policy measures, will help return migration to near pre-pandemic levels by next financial year. Specifically, this involves changes to the Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa, including the streams, and..."