The Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family business has finally released the Traffic Light Bulletin for consultation. The Bulletin includes the proposed changes to the Skilled Occupation Lists, including which occupations will be moved from between the ‘good’ Medium & Long Term Skilled Shortage List (MLTSSL) and the ‘bad’ Short Term Skill Occupation List…
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The Federal government has touted the creation of two new ‘Regional Visas’, as being critical to achieving its ‘congestion busting’ agenda to promote regional migration. But analysis has quickly revealed that the visas themselves are unlikely to achieve this goal. In fact, the visa program design is so flawed they are essentially visas of ‘last…
Two Sydney women have been sentenced to conditional good behaviour bonds after pleading guilty to unlawfully providing fake immigration advice and assistance to large numbers of mainly Chinese nationals. Despite advertising their migration services and charging fees ranging from $1,500 to $2,000, neither of the women were registered migration agents. Investigators found that they provided…
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