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Working Holiday Makers and the 6-month work limitation

Dessie

Jan 10, 20231 min read

Working Holiday Makers and the 6-month work limitation

Working holiday makers on subclass 462 and 417 visa are always subject to visa condition 8547 also known as the six...

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Open the doors – regional Australia needs more migrants

Dessie

Jan 10, 20232 min read

Open the doors – regional Australia needs more migrants

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) says increasing overseas migration will be vital to the growth and sustainability of regional...

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Repairing Australia's broken immigration system

Dessie

Dec 12, 20222 min read

Repairing Australia's broken immigration system

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil recently flagged an independent review of Australia’s ‘broken’ immigration system saying that the...

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Trends in Australia’s temporary skills shortage visa program

Dessie

Nov 13, 20221 min read

Trends in Australia’s temporary skills shortage visa program

Statistics from the Department of Home Affairs have been released which show trends and key statistics for the Temporary Skill Shortage...

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Medical requirements for temporary visa applicants streamlined

Dessie

Nov 7, 20222 min read

Medical requirements for temporary visa applicants streamlined

The Australian Government is streamlining requirements for temporary visa applicants in Australia who now will need to undertake relevant...

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Migration restoration underway after Albanese budget

Dessie

Oct 27, 20222 min read

Migration restoration underway after Albanese budget

The Albanese Government has restored some migration program funding in its Federal Budget which was announced by Federal Treasurer Jim...

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Senate inquiry finds temporary migration leads to exploitation

mandypj

Sep 26, 20225 min read

Senate inquiry finds temporary migration leads to exploitation

By Senator Raff Ciccone Federal Labor As the Chair of the Select Committee on Temporary Migration, it is my pleasure to speak to the...

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Golden Ticket into Australia likely scraped for the future

Dessie

Sep 12, 20222 min read

Golden Ticket into Australia likely scraped for the future

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil told Sky News that "most Australians would be pretty offended by the idea we've got a visa category...

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Addressing the backlog of visa applications

Dessie

Sep 10, 20222 min read

Addressing the backlog of visa applications

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is addressing the backlog of visas putting to work hundreds of additional public service staff and...

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Raising the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold

Dessie

Sep 7, 20221 min read

Raising the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold

Last week’s Job and Skills Summit not only heralded change in the handling of visa applications and the number of visas it also addressed...

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Jobs and Skills Summit changes immigration

Dessie

Sep 3, 20222 min read

Jobs and Skills Summit changes immigration

Australia’s Jobs and Skills Summit, which was held on 1-2 September, was more than the talkfest that some politicians claimed it would...

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Jobs and skills summit to look at skilled migration issues

Dessie

Sep 1, 20222 min read

Jobs and skills summit to look at skilled migration issues

Australian government intends to target the area of permanent migration to help alleviate some of the employment issues facing Australian...

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Albanese Government’s Afghan visa applications options

Dessie

Aug 15, 20222 min read

Albanese Government’s Afghan visa applications options

One year from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and Australia has yet to process Afghan visas with more than 40,000 applications covering...

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New Zealanders promised an easier stay in Australia

Dessie

Jul 29, 20222 min read

New Zealanders promised an easier stay in Australia

Common sense is the approach that the Albanese Labor Government has said it would take with New Zealand citizens by improving citizenship...

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Dessie

Jul 21, 20222 min read

Visa backlog with one million on hold

In a first step to coping with the backlog of visas the Home Affairs Department will outsource aspects of its visa processing services in...

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Extension for Ukrainian humanitarian visa program

mandypj

Jul 14, 20221 min read

Extension for Ukrainian humanitarian visa program

An eleventh-hour reprieve has been granted to Ukrainians with an extension to the humanitarian visa program for displaced Ukrainians that...

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Important changes to migration from July 2022

Dessie

Jun 30, 20222 min read

Important changes to migration from July 2022

Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa applicants in the Graduate Work stream applying between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023 (inclusive)...

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Australian Immigration Minister Giles inherits a tonne of troubles

Dessie

Jun 15, 20222 min read

Australian Immigration Minister Giles inherits a tonne of troubles

Very few, if any, areas of Labor’s new Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’ portfolio are without trouble; skills shortages abound...

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Tamil family returns home in Australia – temporarily

Dessie

Jun 4, 20222 min read

Tamil family returns home in Australia – temporarily

Almost immediately after gaining power the Albanese Labor Government allowed the long suffering Nadasalingam family to return to the...

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Australia's New Immigration Minister Andrew Giles

Dessie

Jun 2, 20223 min read

Australia's New Immigration Minister Andrew Giles

Labor MP Andrew Giles has been handed the immigration portfolio which has been relegated to the outer ministry. “It’s an incredible...

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