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The new instrument increases Visa Application Charges (VACs) starting on 1 July 2025. The new Migration Amendment (Visa Application Charges) Regulations 2025 commences on 1...

If Schedules 1 and 2 of the Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) no longer contain the provisions for visa class UC, subclass 457, how can that type of visa still be granted?

The Bill "amends the Migration Act 1958 (the Migration Act) to allow the Minister to determine that a thing is a prohibited thing in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees (whether or not they are in an immigration detention facility), if the Minister is satisfied that possession or use of that thing might be a risk to the health, safety or security of persons in the facility, or to the order of the facility"

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

The purpose of the new instrument is to "include an exemption for New Zealand citizens who are unable to meet the income threshold requirements for the 2020-21 income year due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic"

The new instrument specifies the application form and the deadline for that application. If the visa applicant is onshore, the deadline is calculated by reference to the date of approval by the Minister to lodge the application while onshore. If the visa applicant is offshore, the deadline is calculated by reference to the date of approval  (or variation) of the sponsorship.

"The purpose of the instrument is to specify the kinds of passports, held by applicants for second or third Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visas for the purposes of subitem 1225(3BA) of Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations. This cohort will be exempt from the requirements for making a valid application for a second or third Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa..."

"The instrument operates to amend LIN 19/047 and LIN 19/049 to change the definition of Health Workforce Certificate" for the purpose of subclasses 186 and 187

The purpose of the new instrument is to specify a nil VAC for Pacific Australia Card holders who ...

'The [Bill] will facilitate the secure, automated and accountable exchange of identity information between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments, pursuant to the objectives of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services (IGA), agreed by COAG in October 2017. The Bill will achieve this by providing explicit legal authority for the Department of Home Affairs ... to collect, use and disclose identification information'