New income requirements, higher visa fees, and stricter student criteria are set to take effect from this week, as the federal government moves to tighten control over migration intake....
Batemans Bay man facing deportation launches appeal in Federal Court 19 February 2019 Batemans Bay man David Degning in happier days...
Hundreds of foreigners who had their visas cancelled after committing serious crimes are being spared deportation by national security officials, with...
Shadow Immigration Minister Shayne Neumann has told SBS Punjabi that Labor would “very soon” announce its policy on parent visa to replace the government’s temporary sponsored parent visa...
I have just read the statement put out by the Australian Chamber-Tourism and was quite frankly, appalled to learn that the Unions would be applying strong pressure on a possible Labor Government to wind back the Working Holiday Maker Scheme....
Police in the Indian state of Punjab are investigating a brother-sister duo, believed to be currently living in Australia, who are accused of forgery and marrying each other in order to get Australian visas. The Conservative Party has long called for urgent reform of the visa...
‘The Department… will exchange data with the [ATO] to identify whether business sponsors are complying with their… obligations … and whether [subclass 457 and 482] visa holders are complying with their visa conditions’ A Gazette (Notice of a Data Matching Program to Enhance Compliance in...
‘The Amendment Determination only clarifies… that a person who becomes the holder of [a visa subclass 309 or 820] is subject to the [newly arrived resident’s waiting period]’ of 104 weeks The Social Security Amendment (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for...
Two new Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs) have been announced on 10 December 2018. Victoria According to a joint media release: Employers on the Victorian south-west coast have been given a boost, with a new visa agreement between the Commonwealth and Warrnambool City Council set to attract skilled workers to...
‘The Government has shut down its visa processing operations in Iran after it was warned some migration agents were boasting of corruptly obtaining visas’ The ABC News website contains an article that includes the following passages: Australian embassy visa office in Iran shut down amid warning of possible corruption The...
