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

The Adelaide Technology and Innovation Advancement Agreement and Regional South Australia DAMAs have been signed this week

The Tribunal is requiring Australian legal practitioners with pending migration matters to take the steps described in this article, due to the commencement of deregulation

The time of making an application has implications for visas and other matters. We discuss what the time of application when using ImmiAccount is, given that the applicant might be making the application from any time zone.

The new Subclass 494 (Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional)) visa will "replace" subclass 187. However, r 5.19 of the Migration Regulations 1994 will not apply to the new subclass. Instead, nomination applications will need to satisfy the requirements in the newly introduced r 2.72C, which is very different to r 5.19. For instance, nomination applicants will need to be Standard Business Sponsors (or a party to a work agreement) for the new visa, which is not a requirement for subclass 187.

The new Regulations make changes relating to citizenship, VACs and TSMIT

The new regulations insert family violence provisions into Schedule 2 criteria for certain permanent visas and amends the Schedule 1 criteria for a primary applicant for certain visas

The new Act makes several changes, including requiring the ART to make decisions relating to temporary visas on the papers, if ... Also, do the changes give the ART the discretion to make 'on the papers' decisions relating to permanent visas?

The new instrument specifies the language test requirements for an applicant to the Specialist Skills stream and Core Skills stream of the Subclass 482 (Skills in Demand) visa

Several amendments are coming, including assessing authorities and caveats