On 9 May 2018, the Australian Parliament passed the Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) Legislation. The SAF Legislation introduces a new ‘user pays’ training levy (the SAF Levy) for all employer sponsored nominations. For further background on this change and others recently made to employer sponsored migration in Australia please refer to our previous article ‘What…
The March implementation of the Subclass 482 – Temporary Skill Shortage (‘482’) visa changes are the biggest change to employer sponsored migration in more than 10 years. The changes are likely to make recruitment of international talent more difficult and costly across the board. For many organisations who are need of specialist skills it will…
The skilled independent visa accounts for approximately one-quarter of Australia’s permanent visa program: a ceiling of 44,000 individuals each year. Alongside the employer-sponsored program, it is Australia’s main source of skilled migrant workers. Last year, three out of five successful applicants in the program were granted visas while living overseas.
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