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"Fees for Australian citizenship will be increased to keep pace with the cost of processing applications for Australian citizenship and delivering the Australian citizenship program"

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 Bill that sought to "expand eligibility for migrants to access English tuition" passed both houses of Parliament on 10 December 2020 and received the Royal Assent on 17 Dec 2020, with the commencement to be set out by proclamation. A proclamation has been published and sets out the commencement as...

The new instruments specifies the English language proficiency requirements that an applicant may be required to meet in order to satisfy clause 485.212 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations for the grant of a Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa (the Subclass 485 visa) in either of the Post-Vocational Education Work stream or the Post-Higher Education Work stream

"The instrument updates the class of persons specified in LIN 20/122 to ensure that an applicant must either hold a substantive temporary visa that is 28 days... The instrument also specifies an additional class of persons who are eligible to apply for a Subclass 408 visa in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic..."

"The purpose of this instrument is to specify the approved form for making a valid application for the Subclass 192 visa and the manner in which that application must be made"

Number of invitations reduced drastically from 1,500 to 110; invitation threshold raised from to 75 to 80 points for visa subclass 189 and threshold for visa subclass 489 remained the same at 80 points

The new regulations "provide an opportunity for former international students to obtain another Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa - a kind of temporary work visa granted after study in Australia - in circumstances where they were unable to stay in Australia for the full period of grant of their previous Subclass 485 visa due to COVID-19 international travel restrictions"

The new regulations amend the Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) to "enable the ‘COVID-19 concession’ cohort to access the ... as part of meeting the criteria for grant of a Subclass 100 Partner visa or a Subclass 309 Partner (Provisional) visa"

A summary of the changes to the points test that will come into effect on 16 November 2019 for subclasses 189, 190 and 491.