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The new Migration Amendment (New Skilled Regional Visas) Regulations 2019: add visa subclasses 491 (Skilled Work Regional (Provisional)), 494 (Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional)) and 191 (Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional)); and repeal subclasses 489 and 187

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?

Subclass 870 (parent) visa sponsorship applicants must show an "overall" taxable income that is above a certain amount. The overall income can be a combination of the sponsorship applicant's individual income with the income of up to 2 other persons specified in legislation. But the sponsor's individual income must also be above a certain threshold. We discuss an example where the income test is not satisfied and an example where it is.

The instruments increases the temporary skilled migration income threshold (TSMIT) from $70,000 to ...

The new instrument specifies different periods of time for the purposes of paragraphs 5.19(5)(f) and (g) of the Regulations, for new classes of persons who are specified for the purposes of theses paragraphs

"The purpose of the instrument is to specify two AGEEs and the related class of persons for each event, for clause 408.229 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. The events are the  ..."

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"

"The purpose of this instrument is to specify the ... as an AGEE under clause 408.229 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations"

"The Bill amends the Migration Act to protect disclosure of confidential information provided by gazetted intelligence and law enforcement agencies where the information is used for decisions made to refuse or cancel a visa on character grounds, or revoke or set aside such decisions (Protected Information)... The Bill also amends the Citizenship Act to introduce provisions (which are substantially similar to the provisions in the Migration Act described above)..."

It is commonly said that s 347 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) prescribes the deadline for application for merits review of decisions that are reviewable under s 338. Actually, the deadline is found somewhere else.