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"The purpose of the instrument is to determine Australia’s obligations under international trade agreements under subsection 140GBA(2) of the Act, to give domestic effect to...

'Businesses in Victoria's Great South Coast region will receive the boost they need with the Morrison Government finalising a Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) with Warrnambool City Council'

The Pandemic event visa will close to all applicants from...

The new Bill seeks to amend the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) to "introduce new offences and related civil penalty provisions for employers, labour hire intermediaries and other persons in the employment chain who coerce or exert undue influence or undue pressure on a non-citizen to accept or agree to an arrangement in relation to work"

The new Bill "would amend the Citizenship Act and other Commonwealth Acts to repeal the invalid provisions and establish a revised citizenship cessation regime that appropriately addresses the implications of the High Court’s judgements in Alexander and Benbrika..."

"Subsection 419(1) of the Migration Act provides that if an application for review of a decision under subsection 197D(2) of the Migration Act is made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal), the Tribunal must make its decision on review, and notify the applicant of the decision, within a prescribed period". The new Regulations specify that prescribed period.

"The Regulations provide for the calculation of refunds by determining the difference between relevant amounts set out in..."

"The purpose of the instrument is to update the approved form, place and manner (“the arrangements”) requirements for making an application for a Temporary Work (International Relations) (Class GD) visa (Class GD visa) in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility stream..."

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.

The new instrument provides an updated list of registered courses that are specified to be eligible pathway programs The new Migration (English Language Tests and...