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"The Amendment Regulations amend provisions which enable the Minister to grant a BVR visa without application to an individual, including in circumstances where the non-citizen" and "provide for a range of new and amended conditions for BVR visa holders"

The new Bill "amends the Migration Act 1958 (the Migration Act) to provide that if the Minister makes certain character decisions under current subsection ... in relation to a person, then the Minister must cause notice of the making of the decision to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day the decision was made"

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 purpose of the instrument is to specify the purpose of an investment in a managed fund for paragraph 5.19B(2)(c) of the Regulations for visa subclasses 188 and 888

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...

The new Code of Conduct for RMAs takes effect from 1 March 2022 and includes provisions on: duty to disclose to the department the existence of false or misleading documents or information in some circumstances; duty not to evade a requirement of the migration law; duty to take all reasonable steps to verify the identity of the client; duties relating to work or services performed by persons other than RMAs; etc

The new instruments specifies the daily amount for the keeping and maintaining of a person in immigration detention, for the purposes of s 262(2) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

From November 2019, a person who holds certain types of visas (or whose last substantive visa held was of one of those types) will only be able to make a valid subclass 820 application if, before making that application, they have either held those types of visas for at least 3 years or obtain another substantive visa.

​'Employers in the Orana region in the central west and western region of New South Wales have been given a boost, with a new migration agreement between the Federal Government and Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana to attract skilled workers to the region'

According to the Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Commencement Proclamation 2019, the new Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2018 will commence on 17 April 2019