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24.01.2022 Good news for Skilled Graduates who study in Regional Australia; International students will be able to access an additional year of post-study visa if they study in an educational institute in the regions, outside of Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and southeast Queensland.

22.01.2022 The Department of Home Affairs and the Cairns Chamber of Commerce will be hosting information sessions on the FNQ DAMA late June 2019. Further details on these sessions will be released at a later date.

21.01.2022 New regional visas The government also announced an increase in the number of visa places for regional Australia with 23,000 skilled visas being reserved for those willing to live and work in the regions. The two new provisional regional visas to be introduced in November this year Skilled Employer Sponsored Visa and Skilled Work Regional Visa will have 9,000 and 14,000 places respectively within the annual immigration cap of 160,000.

17.01.2022 In the news; The Australian Financial Review reports that Brexit-affected universities in the United Kingdom are waging a campaign to lift offshore business, in a move that has the potential to take market share away from Australia’s international education sector. International Education Association of Australia chief executive Phil Honeywood said the UK initiative could eat into the flow of students to Australia, especially as it coincides with local right-wing commentators and politicians calling for international student numbers to be capped.

16.01.2022 New Visas Skilled Employer Sponsored Visa and Skilled Work Regional Visa Visa holders of these subclasses will be required to spend at least three years in regional areas in order to become eligible to apply for permanent residency, instead of two years. A new regional permanent visa will be introduced in 2022.

15.01.2022 THOSE travellers that fail to declare plant and animal matter when arriving in Australia may face fines, possible criminal prosecution and court proceedings, according to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud and Immigration Minister David Coleman. Returning Australians who do the same will face penalties ranging from fines of up to $63,000 and up to five years in jail. "Our inspection officers are now able to send overseas travellers home immediately if they bring in a seri...ous biosecurity risk to our agriculture, or if they're a repeat offender trying to bring in banned items," Mr Littleproud said. "If we send you home, you won't be able to come back to Australia for three years with very few exceptions on compassionate grounds." The action follows confirmed detections of both African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth Disease - considered the biggest threat to Australia's agriculture - in meat confiscated at airports by Department of Agriculture staff last year. Studies have estimated $50 billion of economic losses over 10 years if there were a large to medium outbreak of FMD in Australia. Mr Littleproud said the pest and disease-free status of the near $60-billion farming industry was a big advantage for Australian farmers. "We want to keep our farmers safe from invading biosecurity risks and give them a fair go," he said. "If you fill out the forms honestly and declare what you've got, you'll have no problem."

10.01.2022 In the news; The Australian leads reports that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a temporary freeze on Australia’s refugee intake if his government is reelected in May. Launching the government’s policy to cap permanent migration and limit humanitarian intake, Morrison stated If you believe in immigration being a key part of Australia’s future, which I do, and my party does, then you have to make sure you have an immigration program which is sustainable, which has integrity, which focuses on people being able to come and get jobs and become part of the community.

10.01.2022 CAIRNS DAMA A designated area migration agreement (DAMA) provides flexibility for states, territories or regions to respond to their unique economic and labour market conditions through an agreement-based framework. Under the DAMA framework, employers in areas experiencing skills and labour shortages can sponsor skilled and semi-skilled overseas workers. DAMAs are designed to ensure employers recruit Australians as a first priority and prioritise initiatives and strategies to facilitate the recruitment and retention of Australian workers. For further information on DAMAs, contact us today.

08.01.2022 In the news; Lose the feather and use sledgehammer: senator puts regulator on notice Brisbane Times, Other, 27/04/2019 Senator John Williams, who spearheaded a parliamentary inquiry into the $170 billion franchise sector, has a message for the workplace regulator: "put away the feather and start using a sledgehammer". It was a similar message that came out of an investigation into underpayment issues among foreign workers by Allan Fels in March. [...] A Chinese worker at Chatime said they are preferred over Australian workers because it is easier to underpay them and threaten them with a breach of visa conditions if they speak up.

06.01.2022 The Australian writes that Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Kristina Keneally has defended herself against Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton by saying that he has "lost control of visa and citizenship processing". She adds that the number of so-called "plane people" has soared to over 81,000 and that visa processing has slowed significantly as a result, with over 200,000 people living in Australia on bridging visas and "clogging up the system".

01.01.2022 Citizenship changes abandoned According to media reports, the Federal Government has abandoned the legislation that would have made migrants to wait longer and prove they have competent English proficiency before they could apply for Australian citizenship. After the Bill passed through the House of Representatives, it was struck of the Senate notice paper in October 2017 due to a joint opposition by the Greens, Labor and some crossbench senators.... Since then, the government had softened its stand on English requirements, scaling it down to ‘moderate’, but couldn’t get the required support to pass it in the Senate. Last month, The Courier-Mail reported that the government will not follow through with the changes.

01.01.2022 The Australian reports that Migration Council Australia chief Carla Wilshire says Labor's promised parents' visa - which would not limit the number of parents who could be sponsored per migrant couple - would be welcomed by Chinese-Australian families. The policy was promoted heavily on the popular Chinese social media service, WeChat, where it was compared to the Coalition's offering, yet some users questioned how a single household would be able to sponsor up to four parents.